JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick
Jailed J6 Participant Speaks
You know, one of the things that Donald Trump had talked about during the campaign before he won reelection was using the powers of the president, particularly pardon powers, clemency powers to go after people that he says were wrongly convicted, wrongly imprisoned. And that includes many people who back in January 6th in 2021 took to the Capitol and many people were prosecuted in an unbelievable day. And as a result, Donald Trump had talked about pardoning those folks, or at least a certain portion of them. And now that Donald Trump has won, I think a question for a lot of those people is, would Donald Trump follow through with that? One of the people who is in prison is Jake Lang, and he was facing a number of different counts. I believe it was 11 counts when he took to the Capitol that day and was carrying a shield, a bat wearing a gas mask. And he is one of the many who expect Donald Trump to follow through on those pledges that Donald Trump had talked about on the campaign trail. Let's bring in Jank Lang from prison who joins me now this afternoon. Jake, it's good to have you. Thank you for your time. Hey, Chris. God bless you, brother. Thanks for having me. So what has the last number of years been like from you, from, from your perspective, the legal process that you've been dealing with? And then from behind bars watching this election with somebody who talked about potentially giving you a lifeline, what have these last four years been like? Well, we've really experienced a grace of God. I mean, we've been praying for a moment like this for, you know, his strong arm to deliver us from this tyrannical regime. The Joe Biden Marxist regime has basically hunted down thousands of Americans in this incredible witch hunt, politically persecuting us for standing up peacefully for a stolen election. You know, you mentioned earlier, I did not show up at the Capitol with a shield or a baseball bat or anything like that. We were attacked by the Capitol police. People were being murdered. Rosanne Boylan virtually died in my arms. She was murdered by the Capitol police. So me and many other men had to take up defensive positioning and we've now been incarcerated for 1,415 days. I haven't even had a trial for defending our country and our fellow countrymen from a brutal assault. You know, out here, a lot has been made on what Donald Trump said that day in his remarks. Did what Donald Trump say that day from your perspective, from people that were around you and how you took it? Was that a rallying cry to take to the Capitol to try to disrupt the democratic process or was this kind of a spur of the moment thing? Was it pre planned? What can you tell people from a firsthand perspective regarding that? Well, I think that the American people had been set up with the COVID lockdown tyranny that we went through. We already showed up at the Capitol disenfranchised because we knew our vote was stolen. And Donald Trump urged us to peacefully and patriotically protest. And so if anything, he kind of tried to keep a lid on the anchor and the frustration that was already so apparent, you know, with the inside the hearts of all Americans. And, you know, the day at the Capitol, we were, you know, already like a tinderbox because of the heavy emotional strain that we've been through the last, you know, in 2020, the COVID lockdowns and then the stolen election and, you know, the pending doom coming to America with we've seen the last four years of the Joe Biden regime and the Capitol police threw a match on that tinderbox there and the incited riot, basically, they hit us with pepper ball bullets and rubber bullets and concussion grenades, tear gas and they were targeting women and elderly people and young men like myself had to stand up and do something and, you know, decisions need to be made, you know, in situations like that to try to save human lives. And that's what I tried to do. I'm credited, Chris, with saving two men at the Capitol Tommy Tatum and Philip Anderson have signed courts for an affidavit saying I saved their life from Capitol police brutality. So we were not some vicious mob that was incited by President Trump's words. We were just patriotic Americans looking to stand up peacefully and, you know, redress agreement with our government. What is your status with your case? The charges? Where does that legal process stand for you? Right now I'm currently in a limbo period for the last four years because I have not had a trial and there's been various pushbacks on my trial. We took one of my charges, the 15-12 obstruction of Congress, 20-year maximum felony charge, a blanket bludgeoning tool that the feds used to attack all the jail in Texas. There's like 400 people that have been charged with it that did nothing saying that they have structured Congress and they deserve 20 years in prison. It was a weaponized, politicized perversion of the law. And so we took that to Supreme Court and that process took nearly two years to play out and we actually won ground breaking, absolutely ground breaking. And there's been so many other delays in my trial because the federal government won't produce the exculpatory evidence that we need to go to trial. We had to wait for Speaker Mike Johnson to release, you know, 12,000 hours of January 6th tape which we've used to build my case, but now my judge is saying it's probably not even worth it to go to trial before the inauguration because it looks like the new Attorney General is going to be dismissing cases and Trump's going to be pardoning all the current convictions. So it'd be a waste of federal resources to drag me through a three-week long grueling trial when it looks like the posturing of President Trump is going to be departed every single Jan Sexer. And I want to get to that in just a moment. But a moment ago, you talked about what led you to go into the Capitol. So was it an effort to try to overturn the election? Because I think there were people particularly on the left that feel like this was a coordinated effort to disrupt the process from finalizing those votes. Was that the process or was it something else? No, I mean, that's just a insanity to think that way because none of us were keen prepared for such a mission. I mean, that is a -- if you were to think about standing up to the United States government with PVC, you know, flags attached to little plastic pipes and water bottles and all the stuff that they're claiming were deadly, dangerous weapons. I've got some of my Jan Sex brothers doing seven years in prison for throwing a half-empty water bottle at the fully riot shield and, you know, helmeted Capitol police officer. So no, we did not try to overthrow the United States government with flagpoles and water bottles. You know, that's just preposterous. And it was an emotional response. We had that day spur of the moment to being attacked by the Capitol police, but also there was an underlying understanding inside the hearts of the American people that we were in a dire circumstance that the government is basically being stolen from us from the will of the people was being taken from us by a stolen election. Communist coup d'etat Marxists had selected Joe Biden to become the next president. They manipulated our election process. When I was doing some research on you and your case, there was a number of reports that even behind bars you were creating and running a militia, the North American Patriot and Liberty militia. Is there truth to that? Is that something that you continue to be active in? Well, our Second Amendment rights in America are clearly defined in the Constitution. We have the right to exercise and to organize and to be prepared for, you know, many different types of emergencies that can come about through, you know, tyrannical uprising of the government or national emergencies and stuff. So it's perfectly fine to exercise your rights. I think that NAEPOM, that organization I started was primarily to destigmatize militia involvement and Second Amendment advocacy and support in the American public again. And I think we did that because for years, because of January 6th, people were so afraid like the proud boys and the oath-keeper seeing the leaders and the founders of those organizations going to prison for 18 years and 22 years and these painless things. I thought it was very important to bring back to the American people just that bold stance that yes, we are Americans and this is a birthright of ours that our Founding Fathers fought and died for and they had said in the Constitution that this is a necessity to the security of a free state. And so here we created that in order to destigmatize and to bring back to the public forefront militia involvement being a natural citizen right of American people and I'm so proud to be involved in that and it's just a blessing. So you know, you got to make a bold stand as an American. It's not, you know, freedom isn't free. It needs to be defended. What do Ronald Reagan say? You know, if we don't defend freedom at every given corner, then one day we'll be telling our grandchildren about the old days when America was a free country. So Donald Trump has seemed to indicate that he's willing to use his power when he gets into office and inaugurated on January 20th to pardon or commute some of the sentences. Do you have hope that that's something that would happen? Is there, have you been in contact with his transition team or members of his campaign that would indicate that you would fall into that if something like that were to come about? So we have been working with, yes, many members of, you know, his peripheral members of his team and people that have been super close to him in the past and we have won a chord that we're crying out with with the J6 Day One Freedom petition, which is a petition that you guys, the listeners can go sign right now online at that J6Pardons.com and we've had conservative luminaries that, you know, our best friends with Trump that I've already brought this to his attention, like Mike Wendell and Laura Loomer and Jim Hopp and Darren Beatty and Grant Stinchfield and his name is, there's so many great people that are signing this every single day. And so this is our main effort to basically tell President Trump to go with his gut instinct to not be influenced by any of the kind of people orbiting around him that are trying to say, to select a part as an individual part and because at the end of the day this is the main thing that matters. Not one gen sixer was afforded a fair and impartial jury trial. Every single one was selectively processed. You have one minute remaining. And treated differently than Antifa and BLM riders that did much worse than cost billions of dollars in damage. And so we have this moral high ground that no gen sixer was afforded due process. We're all cruel. Jake, we just got it. We just got a one minute warning with you. So I want to make sure I ask what do you want people to know? About about people who have been prosecuted for January 6th. These are some of the most brave and humble and just upstanding citizens in America. We've got special force operators. We've got army Rangers, Marines, fathers, farmers, pastors. These are good people and they don't deserve to be targeted like animals by the FBI and the weaponized DOJ. So we need to send them home. So guys, please go to Jay six pardons.com and sign the petition right now, Jay six pardons.com. Thank you so much, Chris. God bless you, my friend. Yeah, that is Jake Long from behind bars who has been jailed for his involvement in January 6th. We'll take a break. Come back from war here on Jay afternoon. [BLANK_AUDIO]
December 6, 2024 ~ Chris speaks with Jake Lang, who's been incarcerated for 1400 days without a trial for his part in the January 6th attack on the US Capital.