Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia representative and January 6 defendant, recounts his peaceful Capitol entry and subsequent FBI hostage claim at Mike Lindell's summit. He alleges Soros-funded group CREW orchestrated a civil suit to remove him, arguing this sets a dangerous precedent against President Trump. Evans asserts he leads by double digits in his MAGA district without spending campaign funds while criticizing Ron DeSantis for ignoring defendants like the wife of a man denied cancer treatment. Ultimately, both Evans and interviewer Kandiss Taylor conclude that the true insurrection was the November 2020 election theft, advocating for January 6 to be recognized as Patriot Day. [Automatically generated summary]
Alright everybody, thank you so much for tuning in.
It's been a very long day here in Missouri at the Mike Lindell election summit.
It's a marathon, 12 hours long, and there's a lot of speakers.
We've been listening to this great coverage.
You don't really want to do a lot of interviews because so many amazing people just speaking on stage, but one of the individuals who I know and I've been in communication with over the last few months and just ran into in person is Derek Evans.
Yeah, so leading up to January 6th, you know, I won my House seat.
I was the first Republican to win my district in 98 years, won the landslide.
And I was so excited, but then I started seeing the presidential election being stolen, not only from Trump, but the American people.
And so my constituents, they reminded me, I was already planning to go, and they said, you're not only there for yourself, you're there representing us, being our voice.
And so I was peaceful that day, non-violent, non-destructive.
I walked in an open set of doors.
It's all on video, pinned to the top of my Twitter feed.
So I live-streamed the entire event on January 6th.
So I live-streamed going into the building.
I thought, worst case scenario was, at the time, I was going to get a $50 ticket, just like the people who pound on the doors during the capital hearings.
So I was going to pay $50 to exercise my natural and God-given rights of free speech, but ultimately found myself facing $25.
I spent 24 years in prison.
Long story short, I had an 18-month legal battle, spent three months in federal prison, eight days in solitary.
I mean, this is, once again, it's a Trump district.
When the people hear our story and they're reminded I was the state rep who actually stood up and got arrested, we're getting support more and more every single day.
And the reason why is I think that they're afraid to honestly come out and publicly be against me because they see so many of their own constituents who actually support me.
They're behind closed doors.
They don't come out in public to support me.
They're kind of remaining neutral because they're afraid to do anything.
You were only one of two, there's only two people in this country who were representatives, or at least we know of, maybe there are more, you know?
Maybe there are more, I don't know.
But two that we know of, representatives holding office who were arrested for their actions on J6, and the other guys out of New Mexico, the guy who founded, I forget his name...
So Coy, and I've been telling anyone who would listen to me about this for a while, because it's very important.
So there's a group out of D.C., Soros-funded group called CREW, C-R-E-W, and they wanted to have Coy removed from office.
They tried to do a recall election.
Coy's constituents said, no, we want him as our county commissioner.
They refused to do that.
So then they filed a civil suit of insurrection, not criminally, civilly, Coy had no support from the Republican Party or anything, was forced to defend himself.
They moved the trial out of his home county to a liberal district in New Mexico and actually removed him from office via the Insurrection Act of Civil Insurrection.
Not criminally.
And then it was upheld by appellate court because he missed a deadline of some sort because he had no way.
So now we're hoping, he's got some legal representation now, we're hoping the Supreme Court will hear this case.
But this is going to set the precedent for President Trump because if they can use the civil way of insurrection, of going after a employee, and the courts say that, then they can turn around and do the same thing to President Trump.
And when we do the push polls, which is, you know, you're among people and say this is the former state house delegate member who was arrested for January 6th, we're actually leading by double digits in the polls when we do the push polls when they know that.
The Republican Party is not going to be your friend, but I think the American people understand that the January Sixers are patriots, right?
These are patriots, and President Trump has said publicly that he plans on giving all of them full pardons, every single one of them, so that's why we need to get President Trump back in office as well.
I've been a huge fan of yours for a long time, as many people who are in this movement have been, but coming out of prison, I hadn't really been on social media for a few years after January 6th, I was told by my attorney not to, you know, so I wasn't involved in anything.
And I was in a Twitter space, so I'd just been out of prison a couple weeks.
At this point, I still didn't really understand how the people felt about January 6th.
I knew how the media felt.
I knew how some of the people felt.
I didn't know how the people felt.
I was kind of tiptoeing around it.
And I came across a Twitter space and briefly shared my story, and somebody else had as well.
And I'll never forget it.
You said, I think that the January 6th prisoners are patriots.
And for me, just so you know, that was a huge turning point for me from a mental standpoint of like, okay, we got support out here.
Yeah, they're going to start seeing some of these establishment people be a little bit more friendly towards us, even though they don't want to be, but they're one of those things they're afraid not to be because President Trump's associated with it.
And so I think it's going to be interesting to see it.
But you were there before it was cool to support the January 6th president, so thank you.
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