In Exclusive Jailhouse Letter, Capitol Riot Defendant Explains Motives, Remains Boastful

[TexasTowelie]

An excerpt of a letter penned by Guy Reffitt, sent to ProPublica from jail.


In a letter sent from behind bars, a key defendant in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol said he and fellow inmates have bonded in jail, and boasted that those attacking the building could have overthrown the government if they had wanted.

The letter is signed “the 1/6ers” and expresses no remorse for the assault on the Capitol, in which five people died. While no names appeared on it, ProPublica was able to determine, through interviews with his family and a review of his correspondence from jail, that it was penned by Guy Reffitt, a member of the Three Percenter right-wing militant group accused of participating in the riot. The letter said the inmates arrested for their role in the attack regularly recite the Pledge of Allegiance inside the Washington, D.C. jail and sing the national anthem “all in unison, loud and proud most everyday.”

“January 6th was nothing short of a satirical way to overthrow a government,” said the letter, written by hand on yellow lined paper. “If overthrow was the quest, it would have no doubt been overthrown.”

The letter sent to ProPublica is believed to be one of the first public statements from a Jan. 6 rioter currently in detention. ProPublica also obtained text messages with Reffitt’s family and was able to ask a few questions of him via text from the D.C. Jail, with his wife, Nicole Reffitt, acting as a relay. Guy Reffitt declined to participate in a fuller interview on the advice of his lawyer, his wife said.

Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/in-exclusive-jailhouse-letter-capital-riot-defendant-explains-motives-remains-boastful

No remorse and still a threat. Lock him up (and all the other inmates that bonded with him) for a long time.

[abqtommy]

1. That's about what I'd expect from a reTHUG Fascist Insurrectionist Cultist. And that's why

he's in jail/prison and very likely to stay there. Bring in the next Fool Tool!

[LakeArenal]

2. 🙄. Hope they get to sing together from 25 to life.

[TheRealNorth]

3. The only reason it wasn't overthrown

Was because the legislators and the ballots were evacuated or successfully sheltered in-place.

[gratuitous]

4. Oh, it was a satirical insurrection

Man, conservatives really can't do comedy, can they?

[LudwigPastorius]

25. Hmm..I would have thought it was slapstick.

...because I've never seen so many fucking clowns in one place before.

[malaise]

5. Attempted coup

That is all

[Sneederbunk]

6. Boast to the walls of your cell.

[ailsagirl]

14. Hee hee

good one!!

[captain queeg]

7. What is this tyranny they are always talking about

I think these folks out to be sent to a country with real tyranny; maybe N Korea.

[Downtown Hound]

18. The tyranny of being super entitled and not getting their way

It's very hard on them. Poor things.

[brooklynite]

8. Isn't "the resting place of the founding documents" the National Archives?

[Botany]

21. There you go with all your liberal "book learning."

n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

9. I don't know why they don't keep them separated from each other.

[spanone]

10. go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200

[Treefrog]

11. There was a whinging, wheedling weenie on Chris Cuomo's show last night. An insurrectionist.

Claims he had “Foxitis” and claiming to believe in Jesus and blah blahdie blah. It was sickening to watch, but it gave me some small satisfaction to see the fear in his face. And after he and his lawyer finished blaming everyone but himself for his actions, Cuomo just said “Well, those five felonies speak for themselves.”

I’m not a huge Cuomo fan, but he eviscerated this guy (and his lawyer).

[Mysterian]

12. This will go over well at his sentencing hearing

What a bunch of stupid assholes and this country is full of them.

[marble falls]

13. Thank the Diety that most of these people are loudly stupid with motormouth.

[NBachers]

15. He imagines his words being read with rich feeling by Sam Elliott.

[Sane1]

16. Cop Killers and Traitors

Mesmerized by the con man in chief. Unpatriotic fucking losers!

[Grokenstein]

17. We coulda done it if we really wanted to!

Some people just don't understand "satire"!

[AllyCat]

27. The Young Ones!!

[Takket]

19. i think my response would be...

[AllyCat]

28. Perfect gif!

[Botany]

20. Can you add another 5 years to his prison time for bad writing?

BTW the Capitol Building was not a place created for "a challenge" but it was made so as to
allow the duly elected people to come together to debate, compromise, and pass legislation
in order that America can overcome its challenges all the while working under the framework
of our Constitution and that Constitution stipulated the peaceful transfer of power after an
election too.

[Pepsidog]

22. The more they write the longer the sentence. Keep up the good work and write some more.

[LudwigPastorius]

23. Oh, I see this traitor came up with his own logo in prison.

The "One Sixers"...Isn't that precious?

[dchill]

24. So much valuable information...

...was available to all these TV-insurrectionists. Instead, they watched FOXNEWS.

[calimary]

26. "... a satirical way to overthrow a government"???????

W. T. F.??????????

Five people DIED that day. And a police officer succumbed a day later to injuries sustained during the insurrection. Hard to find “satire” in that.

[tavernier]

29. I'm just not buying the stolen election crap anymore

And neither is the growing majority of the country. It’s just a stupid loser excuse now.

[byronius]

30. "...so that government by the white man shall not perish from this earth..."

It's the pathetic and ultra-ignorant hijacking of precious ideas that is so galling. These idiots say the words but they do not understand the words because they NEVER DID THE WORK. Their 'America' is as thin as the American flag painted on a plastic bucket made by slave labor.

Their beliefs are as American as Hitler's were 'national socialist'. It's all just primitive strong-man rule, period. The oldest and weakest ideas rebranded as 'freedom'.

Did you know Vladimir Putin is the greatest American patriot? It's true! I done heerd it on Tucker!