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Aug. 23, 2023 - Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer
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Laura Loomer Interview With J6 Defendant Derrick Evans at Lindell's Election Summit
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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.
So, Derek Evans, so great to see you.
Thank you so much for having me on, Laura.
I appreciate all the amazing work you're doing.
Of course.
And so, you're a January 6er.
Yup.
And you're also an elected official.
Yup.
But you were stripped of your position because of January 6th.
Yup.
And now you're running for office again.
Tell us about that.
Yeah, so...
Tell us about January 6th and what happened to you.
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.
You walked inside?
Walked through an open set of doors.
Thanked a police officer for his service.
He gave me a friendly fist bump inviting me into the building.
And he invited you in.
It's on video.
Yep.
Spill less than 10 minutes inside.
Thanked him again.
Walked back out.
The same deep state going after President Trump.
Came to my house.
Ripped me from my family.
Held me hostage.
FBI? Yep.
Tell us about what happened.
Ah, man.
I was home alone.
I have four kids.
At the time, my oldest was five years old.
And when was this?
January 8th.
That was one of the first people arrested.
Wow.
Two days.
Yes.
One of the first people arrested.
The day that Donald Trump got the plot for him.
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.
Where did they send you?
Milan, Michigan.
So about six and a half hours, one way away from my house.
They're doing that to all the January 6th prisoners, by the way.
They're sending them miles away.
They make it as hard as possible.
So you were in jail for three months?
Yep.
Eight days of solitary confinement because they refused the COVID vaccine.
But you didn't back down?
Correct.
And so now you are running for office again.
You are a state rep and now you're running for United States Congress.
Yes ma'am.
What's the district?
It's West Virginia's first congressional district, southern half of West Virginia.
It is not only a red district, this is a Trump MAGA district.
Wow.
And that's the cool thing about it.
So who else is in the race and what has been your experience thus far as a J6 or running for office?
So the seat is right now held by Carol Miller.
She is a Republican in name only, as we all know.
But the response has been great.
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.
It's absolutely fascinating.
And West Virginia.
Yep, absolutely.
And so, what's been the reaction from the Republican Party as a candidate, right?
Well, you could imagine the same reaction they give you and the same from the media and the establishment party.
You're not going to be getting on the Young Gun unless they're any time soon.
Of course, exactly.
Which we don't want there either, you know?
You don't want that.
No, no.
So, it's just like the same community.
Has there been any condemnation from Republicans or your opponents about you running as a J6er?
Honestly, most of them do that in silence.
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...
Yep, Cowboys for Trump.
Cowboys for Trump.
And so it's quite remarkable.
It's quite remarkable.
And he had a lot of support as well.
And I believe he's also running for office.
Well, so his story is even crazier.
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.
That's exactly what it's all about.
Wow.
Everything surrounding January 6th was all to go after President Trump.
I've been telling anyone since I got out of prison in October.
I've told everyone, listen, they're coming after President Trump.
No, they are.
So what's the outlook on the race?
How are you doing?
What are the polls showing?
What's the sentiment on the ground?
Well, we haven't spent any money yet.
We're going against a six-year incumbent and we're polling in the 40s right now without spending any money.
So the people are hungry.
So people know you.
Absolutely.
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.
So that's going to be the key.
It's going to be a huge race.
It's a MAGA district through and through.
That's great.
So where can people go to learn more about you and your campaign and support you?
You can follow me on any of the social media platforms.
I've got them all.
What's your handle?
On Twitter, they're all different because we've all been deplatformed.
On Twitter, it's at Derek Evans underscore WV. And then on true social, it's at Derek Evans.
And then I think it's the same thing on Facebook.
But you can also go to my website, evansforwv.com, and go there, and it's all linked on there as well.
Great.
Wonderful.
I'm heading to West Virginia in a couple days.
I'm going to be doing Tim Pool's show.
He's out of West Virginia.
He's doing great work as well.
He's trying to get on his show and tell your story out of West Virginia.
I'm happy to hear what's going to be on there, though.
Yeah, definitely.
I'm going to make the case for President Trump.
As we know, Ron DeSantis is not an ally to the January Sixers.
Not at all.
Florida has the highest number of J6 defendants, and he's done nothing to help them.
Not only that, he's completely ignored them because I know for a fact multiple of them have reached out to his office.
Oh yeah, including the wife of one of the individuals who was being denied cancer treatment and he hasn't done anything.
Absolutely nothing.
And then even when he's asked about it, he dances around and everything.
He's a jellyback rhino at the end of the day.
He's a coward.
He doesn't have the guts to stand up.
What people need to remember is, we're in a battle right now for the future of this country.
And this is not a time for weak politicians.
We need patriots to step up and run for us.
President Trump is a patriot.
There is no one who is built for a time such as this like President Trump.
Exactly.
I agree.
I agree.
That's why we get along.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
We appreciate everything you do, Lori.
I appreciate you and good luck and it's great.
I wish you the best of luck.
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 want to share something with you really quick.
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.
Because up to that point, we didn't know that.
When I ran for Congress in Florida, I ran against a guy named Dan Webster, Rhino.
You know, just like Joe Biden, the guy who literally walks around with a light flare button, you know?
And literally.
He was the only Republican who skipped the vote on the J6 Committee.
And so, I campaigned on this issue.
And it is a very popular issue among the GOP voters.
They do believe that these people are political prisoners and they are patriots.
And so, you know, anyone who says otherwise, well, they're not MAGA. They're not America first.
Well, now that President Trump is a J-6 prisoner, you're going to see a lot of these people.
Yeah, he is a J-6 prisoner, isn't he?
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.
Yeah, well, I've always been in support of them, so I think that the real insurrection took place in November 2020 when they fill our elections.
Absolutely did, 100% did, exactly.
I think January 6th needs to be a holiday.
I think we need to call it Patriot Day.
There we go.
That'd be awesome.
It's a day where we recognize the courage of patriots that stood up against the tyrannical insurrection of election theft in November 2020.
Absolutely.
Because that was the true insurrection of November 2020.
It was.
It was.
Well, thank you.
Thank you so much for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Let me just take your mic off.
So, a lot of really interesting people here.
A lot of really interesting stories that you're not going to hear on the mainstream media.
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