Amid his mom’s time in hospice during the coronavirus pandemic, Rissi said he had spent hours listening to his brother “ranting and raving” about allegations of election improprieties in Arizona. In the months after her death, Rissi said he was taking medication for his own ailments that he says altered his behavior. His voice cracking, he recounted how his wife had told him one day that he had called someone the night before and was screaming into the phone. Rissi said he didn’t know what he’d done until the FBI showed up at his door.

He used the Rosanne defense: it’s the pharmaceutical companies’ fault that decent people keep turning into conspiracy zealots. Well, not all decent people. Just those predisposed to radicalism and…indecency, I suppose.