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scrunches): ‘Gangs? No, I’m not part of any gangs.’ He’s like, ‘Well, what about the MAGA gang?’ I said, ‘Oh yeah, I’m part of MAGA.’ He said he might have been, too. That sounds diametrically opposed to what we saw in court, and in the media, in terms of how you were described. Prosecutors and reporters had said you were part of multiple so-called gangs, such as the Proud Boys. I was blindsided. The government lied about me. The prosecutor was batshit nuts. They colluded with the media — CNN, Rolling Stone — I’ve been all over the papers. And I smiled in my mugshot for J6. What more can they do, kill me? God bless my heart, but I will not be shamed. At the end of the day, I got to pay bills, I got mouths to feed. Growing up, I had my aches and pains from slip-ups, but nothing crazy. I mean, nothing to land me in jail. You were called ‘violent,’ though, both in the Jan. 6 context and in your activism around the Phoenix area. But you actually consider yourself a pacifist, is that right? I’m not going to hurt you, and I expect the same thing. The wars — what Israel is doing to Palestine, they did have a right to self-defense, but they wiped out that whole area. Then you have the war in Ukraine, and Afghanistan. And for me, it’s the Christians. No one ever talks about the Christians. No one wants to talk about the Christians over there where there is war and bloodiness. That’s a greater reason why I voted for Trump than pardoning me. This brings up an interesting dichotomy. You’re anti-war, but you joined the Marines, and you participated in the Jan. 6 riots because you felt it was your duty as a Marine to protect against threats foreign and domestic. In this case, domestic. Yeah. That’s tantamount to an act of war, no? There was no plan of storming the Capitol. I knew about the J6 rally like three weeks before it happened, and I was going to go to the rally, but there was no plan of going to the Capitol. But I legit saw the cops come out of nowhere in undercover black gear; they started shooting their pepper balls and their flashbangs. And there were little kids there. So, yeah, I stormed the Capitol. I did. But I didn’t plan on it. There
them are batshit crazy, will give me the truth — at least I know they want to fully abort those babies, they want to castrate these children. So, the pardon — it’s not a quid pro quo for you. I know you, I think, well enough to say that if Donald Trump betrayed your Christian values, for example, you wouldn’t ever wear that MAGA hat again. What is your relationship with Donald Trump, and what, specifically, would it take for you to forsake him? In the Marine Corps, we were taught how to address presidents. So, to me, he’s not my friend, he is the Honorable President Donald J. Trump. I say the same thing about Obama and Biden. Well, actually, no, not Biden, because the 2020 election was illegitimate. But, Trump, I don’t owe him my loyalty. I assumed, when he got into office, that I was going to get a pardon. But at the same time, if it didn’t happen, I wasn’t going to get mad about it. My ultimate pardon is going to be in Heaven when I ask for forgiveness from Christ. There are J6ers who are on Twitter openly telling people that they’re going to commit suicide if they don’t get a pardon. For me, my life moves on. There are other J6ers out there who need to seek mental therapy. Hypotheticals aside, you’re an ardent supporter of Trump, obviously. However, if I remember correctly, you didn’t vote for him in 2016, which was your first presidential election since coming of age. I was in a foxhole when I voted absentee for Gary Johnson. I always read the news here and there, but I didn’t enlist in the culture war until the summer of 2019. I’m watching the news, and I see they want to impeach Trump over the phone call with Ukraine, and the moment that happened, I went full-on. We’re going to impeach our commander-in-chief over a phone call? I said, nope, this is my guy, full-on. A lot of people in the alt-right space joined the culture war the following summer, the summer of Geroge Floyd. I met you around that time, and you were a year ahead, so to speak. Who inspired you? Tim Pool, Adam Carolla and Glenn Beck. We’re both in our twenties, at least for a little while longer. We’re the generation that was supposed to elevate Kamala Harris to victory, right? But it didn’t go that way, and Arizona was no exception. I can’t help but think activists played
a role. Your brand of resistance — the public meltdowns, incendiary language — whatever you call that, what you do, it’s a form of activism, right? I would call it that, yes. And it ostensibly has some influence over others. Would you call yourself an influencer? I don’t. You can say I’m an influencer, locally, and that’s cool. To answer your question, did I play a part? Sure. But I never meant to influence anyone’s ideas or political opinions. What was the motivation, then, for broadcasting those clips so widely and making them so, for lack of a better term, in-your-face? Offensive, even? The JFK Report really started to take off once the feds came to my house, when the arrest happened. For me, it was an exercise in free speech, pretty much. I’m going to broadcast it because I can, and you can suck on that. You just mentioned your arrest. You were removed from your home here, in this community, and I think a lot of my readers, at least, don’t know that. Tell me how it happened. I didn’t get raided, which makes me one of the luckiest J6ers. They knocked on my front door at 11 a.m. I was batshit nervous, dude. Did you expect that visit? Yes and no. Yes, generally, but no, not in that second. But I’m glad it happened because I’ll tell you, I was living in a state of paranoia. They were on the news one day after Jan. 6 saying, ‘We’re going to hunt you people down, all of you.’ I knew I was one of them. I had never seen an FBI agent in my life. They pulled me outside; they laid out a folder on the hood of my buddy’s car. They were pointing to the documents: ‘This is you. These are your footsteps.’ And my hands went like this (he throws his hands over his head) and I’m like, ‘Yep. You caught me.’ I kind of collapsed. I was, like, so nervous. Your first, ahem, perp walk, was in an FBI car, huh? Was it a long ride to FBI headquarters in downtown Phoenix? They handcuffed me in the front, actually. They had four guys with shotguns, and they were asking me questions. My favorite agent was the one who said, ‘Hey, M.J., you part of any gangs?’ And I sat there like this (his face
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