A formerDonald Trump official ran into a brick wall on Thursday morning when he tried to defend his old boss for calling Jan. 6 insurrectionists “patriots.” In recent days, the former president has been trying to equate the rioters who stormed the Capitol and sent lawmakers from both sides of the aisle fleeing for their lives with students setting up encampments on college campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Trump, as he has for weeks, recently insisted the Capitol attackers are “patriots,” and that led Marc Lotter who served as a director of communication for the former president, to…