Pleading parents of youngest Capitol rioter might not be helping his cause

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Ray Hartmann
March 07, 2021



Accused insurrectionist Bruno Joseph Cua and his parents are playing the "I just want to go home to Mom and Dad" card in seeking his release from jail while he awaits trial in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot.

That might not be the greatest strategy.

Turns out the judicial system isn't all that enamored with Mom and Dad since they were the ones who drove their 18-year-old son to the infamous "Stop the Steal" Trump rally in Washington D.C. Parents Joseph and Alise Cua don't deny knowing that their son -- the youngest person arrested in the mob--had posted earlier violent messages on social media and then broke into the Capitol.

The folks also had to know that Cua has been cited by police in early December in their hometown of Milton, GA for creating a disturbance at a local elementary school. Police said Cua was driving erratically in his speeding pickup truck in the school parking lot while "waving my (Trump) flag." Bruno's younger brother was there.

Cua's tearful mother told U.S. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss Thursday that since her son's arrest she had spent time "feeling, quite frankly, just stupid for believing what I believed," the Huffington Post reported. "I really should've known better," she said, adding that she and her son felt "ridiculous" for believing the former president's lies about voter fraud. We are completely broken and just honestly and truly remorseful to the core of our beings, and we're asking for a chance."

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https://www.rawstory.com/bruno-joseph-cua-not-helping/

[bullimiami]

1. white fucking privilege. "i feel stupid now" blink blink.

[Lochloosa]

5. We refer to it as white fucking trash down here

[Cha]

2. Yeah, the Treasonous Homicidal Maniac LIES..

Spread it throughout your cult.

[underpants]

3. LMAO that picture. It has "Parents of the Year" written all over it.

‘n|m right back at the Cua family

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4. I really like what the prosecutor said:

Ryan Karim Buchanan, a Justice Department prosecutor, had argued for detaining Cua, saying the home wasn't a "suitable place" for him. "I don't believe that home incarceration would work because he's an 18-year-old who's home schooled," Buchanan said. The things that Bruno Cua had ingested, not only from the internet but from his parents, led him to the attack on the Capitol.

"[Joseph] Cua testified that he believes some of this came from him, he acknowledged that he bears some responsibility for his son's belief structure and then the actions that arose out of those," Buchanan said. "Absent the internet, absent going to any rallies, his parents are still there."

[Takket]

6. he can be with his parents when they all share a cell together.........

how is what his parents did any different than the person driving the getaway care for the bank robbery? They drove him to assist him in the commission of a felony.

[BlueStater]

7. Ha.

How quickly he went from being a badass “patriot” flipping the bird at cops to a poor little boy who just needs his mommy and daddy.

Some prison time should do him some good.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. The there's this

.” He also wrote that he wanted to “lock the swamp rat tyrants in the capitol and burn the place to the ground.”

[RockRaven]

9. I don't believe people who claim they have completely changed their mind about a complicated

set of interconnected ideas over the span of mere days to weeks when they have spent years marinating in and spewing out the contrariwise positions. Generally I find those people are just saying what they think their interlocutor would need to hear in order to ease up on them.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

10. This.

As a Behavioral Health Professional I worked with many people trapped for years in delusion and denial.
It often takes months - or years - for a sufferer to change mindsets.
And sometimes it never happens.

[kairos12]

11. Put him under the jail.

[struggle4progress]

12. "How could anyone know that smashing into the US Capitol was not a good idea?"

[GoodRaisin]

13. Maybe their lawyer can negotiate 500 hours of the family wearing "we used to be stupid" signs

to cut his prison time in half.

[AwakeAtLast]

14. He's alive and no one put their knee on his neck

He got his chance.

[lagomorph777]

15. Let him visit his parents: give them adjacent cells.

They should be arrested for aiding and abetting.

[Raftergirl]

16. Play stupid games

win stupid prizes.