D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was brutally attacked by Donald Trump supporters during the assault on the U.S. Capitol, said the newly released FBI interview with the assailant who drove a stun gun into Fanones neck on Jan. 6 illustrates how the former president manipulated his followers.

If you look at that and you cant see the direct correlation between Donald Trump and his supporters quote-unquote political speak and their actions on Jan. 6, youre an idiot, Fanone told HuffPost on Wednesday.

Danny Rodriguez, a 39-year-old California man who was wearing a Make American Great Again hat when he was filmed electroshocking Fanone on Jan. 6, was arrested on March 31, one month after he was named in a HuffPost story . While hes locked up in jail awaiting trial, Rodriguezs federal public defenders have been trying to get his confession to the FBI tossed on the claim that Rodriguez wasnt properly advised of his Miranda rights.

Rodriguez was named in a new indictment along with his friend Ed Badalian, who went by Trump Ed online, as well as with an unnamed California man whom online sleuths have nicknamed Swedish Scarf. All three men went through a broken window that day and raided the Capitol building, and later celebrated the attack at an Airbnb in Virginia with other Trump supporters, many from the Los Angeles area.