Ryan Zink on What It’s Like to Disappear Into the American Gulag for Political Crimes
Ryan Zink, a safety director for Bear Crop Science fired after his January 6th conviction, recounts the FBI’s violent 4 a.m. raid on his Texas home—using a battering ram, flashbanging his dogs, and denying medical care during 84 days of "diesel therapy." He claims federal agents stole personal items, subjected him to chemical poisoning, and lost 50 pounds due to starvation and illness while alleging perjury and Brady violations in his case. The Supreme Court overturned his felony charge, but he faces ongoing legal battles and professional fallout, including Facebook seizing his congressional page. Running for Congress in District 19, Zink ties his mistreatment to broader systemic issues—AI-driven surveillance, election integrity claims, and government secrecy—while advocating for armed resistance and "spiritual warfare" against perceived liberal overreach. [Automatically generated summary]
The reason I thought we would all benefit from hearing your story is that you were a January 6th defendant and you went through many years of trials, both literally and figuratively in the aftermath of that.
And you've emerged as a real candidate.
And so I'd just like to begin by hearing your J6 story.
Why did you go to Washington on January 6th and what happened?
Again, the only reason that I thought that was because I was like, you know, well, I've seen what I met Bill Clinton in college at WT when I used to go there.
And I was really weirded out by him when I met him.
What about creepy, soft hands, his demeanor towards the girls that were in the room in the like in the back area.
And then the way, just the way he carries himself.
I think I was, I think it was discernment is what I thought.
No, no, if we were planning insurrection, I would have brought a lot more that day than just my camera.
Yeah.
So he wasn't even actually in the best of good health at that time.
Like there was a there was a time like six years before that that I thought I was going to lose my dad.
Like we were actually like planning funerals and kind of looking at stuff.
So it was a hard time, but then God healed him in that December.
And he's, you know, we've been rocking and rolling ever since.
But, you know, we were both like actively hurt.
Like it would have been very hard pressed for us to do an insurrection that day.
You know, my neck and shoulder injuries, like my, like my shoulder was like froze up here like this for like six months.
And, you know, like I was, I did physical therapy for like two years.
But, you know, it, it just, it's, it's insane looking back because we thought that, you know, we were going to see history for the first time that, you know, the vote would get kicked back to the states and that, you know, the states would vote party line, you know, for what that was what we thought was going to happen.
And it turned out to be completely different.
You know, I, I remember getting in on January 5th, staying with some family in like the, I think it was like the upper Marlboro, Maryland area and making our way across, you know, is the first time in my mind that I can remember.
I think I went to DC once when I was younger, but this was very real.
It was very, you know, very like you would see in the movies, like there's, you know, steam pouring out of the sewers the second that we get off the metro.
And there's already like thousands of people.
It's four o'clock in the morning, you know, and there's, there's already thousands of people like over near the Capitol.
And so I'm, I'm already, you know, taking pictures and this will, this will be relevant later as well.
But it's, it's crazy to step off the metro and that early in the morning, there's thousands of people already at the Capitol all along headed up towards the Washington Monument where President Trump was going to be speaking.
And then that was pretty much like, you know, where we started the day.
Went in there.
I saw Diamond and Silk for the first time walking through.
And remember, I'm not, I'm still not very political at this point.
Like I believe that there's a lot that's going on with elections that we're being lied to about, but I don't see it in the capacity that I see it today.
I'm basically there for a free trip with my dad to Washington, D.C., you know, to hang out for a little bit, get some, some B-roll footage and go home.
And then, you know, so I don't get to go in to where the president is speaking because Secret Service, I have a laptop, I have a camera, I have SD cards, I have multiple lenses, I have a tripod, I have all this stuff.
And Secret Service is like, you can't, you know, like, we're not allowing anyone else with bags into this area that we're going in.
And so I never got to hear Trump speak at all.
Like, I was already had made my way up to the Capitol.
We stopped and had lunch at a building that I would get to know very well, 333 Constitution Avenue, the courthouse where I was later convicted at.
And, you know, we ate lunch over there and then made our way all the way down to the Capitol.
My dad talked, did an interview with the Epic Times.
We spent a good portion, like we had to go sit down after this and then made our way over to the east side of the building where I remained for only a few moments up until everything happened.
And then Sat down, talked to Samoans for Trump, you know, anti-communist party for Trump, you know, just real, you know, gross people, you know, who've had, you know, escaped, you know, horrors that we see with communism, you know, talking about like things that Trump is doing versus like where they came from.
And then we get to where things start rolling for the day.
You know, it's, it's before the objection of Ted Cruz and let's see, the representative from Arizona.
And then we can hear the whole time, like on the on the east side of the building, we hear somebody talking through a megaphone.
Okay.
And they keep telling and they're talking to a Capitol police officer.
Well, I would later identify this man as Dunfee.
And they are saying into the microphone that they're talking to like hundreds of people on the east side.
You know, like, we know that you guys have a right to protest and we know that you have the permit.
We're talking to our superiors and we're going to let you in to, you know, and to go up.
And we're looking around.
We're like, what do they mean, go up?
Like, are we going in the building?
Like, what, what are they talking about here?
So after this, nothing really happens.
They keep talking on the bullhorn.
We can hear, they're trying to like put a phone up to it to where you can hear like President Trump speak.
And then all the proceedings inside of the building start going as well.
And we at like the DOJ has like a huge camera that's, you know, on top of the Capitol building that looks down over the east side.
And I was standing just kind of over the visitor center to the right-hand side in front of this like green light pole.
And right to our left, there's, there's probably, I don't know, like 300 people in front of us.
And we can't really see what's going on.
And I'm trying to like lean out the railing to see what's happening.
And, you know, 400 feet in the air, you can tell that there's pushing and shoving that's going on down over there.
We don't know why they're bringing bike racks over to this side, you know, that impenetrable wall fortress that they built around the Capitol was bike racks that, you know, were connected together.
And so there's some pushing and shoving that's going on over here.
We can't really tell what's going on or like who the instigator is.
But at this time, like right as soon as all of this happens, we start seeing like hundreds of people come this way.
And this is as soon as Ted Cruz and them object.
I mean, it is literally like Texas objects, bang, J6 goes off.
And there's hundreds of people coming from the right side.
I find it more funny that there are a lot more people who weren't at that time, just based on what we knew.
But I do think that it was timed for the objection.
I think that the fact that a senator had finally gotten involved with it is the like principal point of where they had to do something that day in order to stop more information coming out.
Because I mean, the time period between the objection and when the eruption happens is five seconds.
So from my perspective, so I'm right on the railing.
I see a couple hundred people coming this way.
They're already past police officers.
They're inside of the area, which were not properly, you know, they always say like, oh, there were signs around the Capitol that day.
There wasn't.
If you go back and you look at, I hate to say her name, but Pam Hemphill's video where she's walking through.
She's behind the police line in front of where we are at the time.
And there's no signs up.
Well, I have a picture of what the sign is actually supposed to look like in order to cordon off that area so that people, the general public who has no idea what this area is in front of them, they'll claim state of mind that we did because it was an area.
But whenever you see police opening barricades, whenever, so there was an officer that testified against me that was waving people through the barricades.
I'll show you the video.
And he was waving people through.
And then there's hundreds of people on this side.
And I still didn't go through.
Like me and my dad kind of looked at each other and we were like, what is happening?
And I was like, I don't know.
I guess they opened everything up.
And then like even right there, he was like, you don't think they're going to let us into the building, do you?
And I was like, I wouldn't think so.
I was like, you know, there's like proceedings going on inside.
I was like, maybe this is, you know, the area that the protests have the permits for.
So we make our way up.
I'm talking.
I'm saying stuff.
Like I'm an American.
I have the First Amendment.
And so I'm saying, you know, like we're storming the Capitol.
You know, we're like, you know, they can't stop us.
And what I'm, you know, the DOJ will tell you that I was talking about, you know, Capitol police, you know, that like, oh, these guys can't stop us.
They're trying to say that I like was making that disassociation.
But what I'm talking about is like the protests, like American people finding out the truth of what was going on.
And to be completely honest, like I'm overwhelmed.
I don't really have any idea what's going on inside of the building then.
Like, you know, what it like, how much do you actually know until you get to spend like an engrossed amount of time, like the last five years that I've spent about what goes on.
And, you know, to be like a very like junior journalist, like the only thing that I've covered at this point is like football games for a Big 12 university and, you know, a couple basketball games here and there.
Wrote some articles for a magazine.
Like I'm doing the journalist thing, but I'm not in school from my injuries.
And then this is when things get start to get weird.
Okay.
So what happens is, and I'll brush you this part, but this is very critical because I actually, I did send you the evidence of this stuff last night.
So the police stop everybody at the base of the stairs in front of the Columbus doors.
And then they just open it up.
So we're like, you know, a couple hundred people back.
We can't really hear what's going on.
And they just open up the stairs, turn around and go stand in front of the Columbus door.
So we go up onto the east side porch because I'm thinking, I'm like, dude, this is going to be some great footage.
That's like, well, that's what I keep thinking.
I'm like, this is going to be like, this is going to be memorable.
Like, this is something that people are going to talk about if I had only known is just how much they were going to talk about it.
Like, yeah, I mean, like, you like police are actively letting people into the area.
And, but it gets worse for, you know, for my case, because then I go up onto the porch.
Well, then the first person that I see, like the actual first, like, violence engagement that I saw for the day, the literal tip of the spear, everybody says that it was the west side.
It's not.
It's Hunter Alan Emkey.
As far as I've come to know, that he's an Antifa member from California.
I videotaped him jump up onto the ledge of the windows next to the Columbus doors, and he begins punching and kicking out those windows.
Well, there are people up there that are all dressed pretty similar.
I got called a conspiracy theorist by my judge for even mentioning this fact.
Right.
So, you know, I believe that there were people in the crowd that day.
I believe that Bobby Powell, rest in peace, Bobby, I believe that he also captured federal agents that day near that window that were telling people to go in the building.
Bobby Powell was an independent journalist who he testified in my case.
He was pressed that was there that day just to, you know, take videos.
He was never arrested, you know, anything.
But he mysteriously, after he started releasing and talking about all of the footage that he had of these federal agents, succamed to multiple heart attacks and then eventually passed away from one of those.
I was, I've been unable to track down anyone that served time with him or a facility that he went to, like in capacity, because the Bureau of Prisons won't comment, you know, on particularly on our government.
Like when you go and you look at the video and you hear the voices, you can tell that there's like a, there's a different tone with these dudes.
And like, so as I've studied, you know, footage from other areas of the Capitol over the last five years too, you can kind of see some similarities in the way that people dress.
There's also wristbands that have been identified on certain people too, that we think that that was an identifying marker for different groups that were there to cause problems.
And then, you know, and it really doesn't help that the Department of Justice was paying, you know, like the sedition hunters like $100,000 to use artificial intelligence to identify January 6thers that they couldn't do because it breaks the law and the way that they're going out and gathering evidence.
So they paid, you know, this independent group of leftist Trump haters to come and identify us.
And then they were paying them like per arrest on top.
Um, no, I, I may have like just like in the periphery, like when I was walking through the west side to leave like later in the afternoon, but I never saw him.
I was like, well, you know, what can we do to help you?
And instead of saying, you know, like, you need to leave, like, you're not supposed to be here, like anything like that.
He tells me, stay on the porch and take pictures of them.
And that's, and that's in my transcripts.
You know, he actively admits that not only did he like deputize me to stay up there to assist them with people that like getting video to people that are attacking them.
He doesn't, you know, he's not asking me to leave.
So I do that.
I stay up there.
With my dad, you know, my dad gives his business card.
You know, he has, he has his congressional cards.
He's, he's where I'm at now.
He has a house number.
He's FEC filings.
Like, like, we're in this.
You know, the election's coming up.
You know, we're, we're running for Congress with him.
And we give that business card out.
And this is when one of the worst parts of January 6th happens shortly after this.
We're up there.
I'd say probably about 40 minutes is like the total length of my Capitol Day, at least being on like on the porch.
So those police officers, we're talking to them.
I'm listening to the radio that one of them has.
It's up here.
I misspoke at the time because it was really hard to hear radio traffic, but I'm saying things like, you know, there are people inside of the Capitol.
There's a fire inside.
I'm posting all of this on Facebook, you know, and I'm trying to stay like neutral from this point forward because basically everything, you know, it turned on a dime.
You know, we went from a protest to what, what is this?
And so I'm talking to those officers and then Ashley Babbitt is murdered by Michael Bird.
And we can hear the shots inside of the building from where, from where we are.
And there's a video.
So all of the Capitol police officers that testified against me, Officer Fluke, Officer Mooney, and the officer who was seen on film waving people through, I cannot remember his name right now.
But they all testified that at no point did the Capitol Police take me and my father behind their police line where they were holding Hunter because we were working with them.
Well, now I have that video in my possession.
That camera was not allowed to be viewed before it went to trial.
And the video that I sent your team last night is the literal perjury of all three of my federal witnesses in my case that stated that I was not there to assist police at that time and that I was not working with them because there's an officer that comes over.
He separates us from protesters in the gear that I was talking about and says like, hey, these guys are with us.
He's running for Congress.
This is his son.
He's been helping document if people attack us.
And he says, so they originally, they think that the shooting is like down on the lower level.
They don't know where it is in the building.
And so they take us and we go like right into the corner of the Columbus doors.
Well, all of a sudden, the 20,000 pound doors that have to be remotely opened from inside of the United States Capitol by pushing a button open.
They open the Columbus doors and there are people that are coming in and out of those doors.
And it is at this, this is the point of the day where the officer that we've been talking to that was never identified by the Department of Justice, they refused to identify this individual along with the other five or six police officers that were on the porch.
I just got the three that testified against me when I had multiple additional witnesses that I could have called that wore a badge that would have said like, no, they were helping us.
But at this point is when we see like the first like remnants of the battle that's going on either inside of the Capitol, because I don't necessarily know where this officer came from.
I haven't been able to identify him because they won't give us the cameras of the porch.
And so he comes out.
He's injured.
He's holding his shoulder.
He's got mace all over his face.
And dad works in sports medicine and he was, he looks at, he just takes one look at him and he's like, that guy needs medical help.
So dad tries to help him.
He declines help, but he has mace all over his eyes.
And so I'm reaching through my bag trying to get out water to let him rinse his eyes out.
And then at that point, this is like the last interaction that we have with pretty much anyone for the day is because at that point, that's when Mariel Bowser declares that there's going to be a curfew that comes in.
So we can hear it on the radio of the guy, the police officer, Capitol Police Officer that's standing there.
And so he says, you know, hey, we appreciate all of your help.
Things are getting really crazy on the other side.
It'd probably be a good idea for y'all to leave.
We say, okay, that guy refuses treatment one more time.
He's rinsing his eyes out.
I asked my dad, I was like, hey, I want to put the big lens on.
I want to stand on this pillar over here and I want to take pictures inside and see what's going on.
And that's the first time that day that you can actually see people like pushing and shoving with like a cap of police officer, at least from our perspective.
Now, if you have the big high camera and you can look over, like you can see that there was some in front of us that we couldn't see.
I'm 5'8, you know, 200 pounds.
And like, I like, I'm not, I'm not the tallest guy in the world.
So I, you know, I can't see over a lot of people.
So then we leave, you know, we go back around.
I take some pictures by the bike racks where what I think is blood is on the ground, but I'm not sure.
It could have been a spilled drink.
Like it could have been like anything where the bike racks were.
And we start making our way around.
And then I see Jacob Chansley, which we all came to know as the, you know, the QNN gentleman.
I saw him on the steps of the Senate side.
And we make our way around to the west.
And this is when it hits.
And it's like, this is going to be talked about forever because the sea of people that were out there, just thousands and thousands of people that are on that side, we have no, like, we're on the east side, sheltered in a tiny little corner.
We have no idea the scale of what is happening at the Capitol.
And, you know, and people always talk about the West Side footage and things.
You know, they always show, you know, the tunnel videos where you see people attacking.
Well, the reason that they were attacking that day is because a cap or sorry, a metro police officer, Lila Morris, had just beaten a woman to death by the name of Roseanne Boyland.
And that's what they were reacting to.
And so as we're making our way around to go get onto the metro, the closest metro was directly across the west back towards the other side.
Well, apparently, if you wear a badge in D.C., which is which, if you don't know, like across the standard, the Capitol Police and Metro Police with their combined, particularly on the metro side, is the ninth most violent police force in America.
Yeah, of course.
You think about that, think about all the sheriff's offices, the police offices around the country.
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Okay, so did you have any worry that you would be arrested for what you didn't do?
No, because I, what I thought was going to happen was that we were going to turn over the videos of Hunter Empty that we had, that we would probably fail out an affidavit.
And I was, I was kind of expecting like a call from like maybe Secret Service, FBI, somebody, you know, over that time.
But what actually happened was later, February 4th, 2021, at just after 4 a.m., the FBI drives through the front of my house with a 12-foot battering ram.
And, you know, LPD's done a great job actually in recent months, like getting that area cleaned up.
So it's getting better.
And, but the people there are still like, like, even my friends and neighbors, you know, that were around there, they're still, they're just appalled at the way that I was treated.
I believe that there are people that infiltrated this from Washington, D.C. Like Michael D. Brown, the lead over my case, I believe that he should be behind bars, no questions asked.
But, you know, they tell me, you know, like, do you know why we're here?
And I'm like, I'm guessing this has something to do with the Capitol.
I'm not saying anything else.
You're not my friends, blah, blah, blah.
So the Lubbock police officer from LPD pulls over after I'm taken into custody, shuts off all of his cameras, body camera, video camera, everything, and says, we wanted to do this a different way.
What happened to you today?
We were threatened that if we interfered in any way, that they would strip our badge and take us right down to the jail with you because you had multiple people from this department that know you that told them all you have to do is make a phone call.
So the next, you know, couple weeks, I'm at Lubbock County Jail.
Everyone was very nice there, except for this one, you know, like super lesbian chick that was there.
That was always in a bad mood.
And, you know, I still talk to some of these corrections officers that I see them, you know, and I pass them on the street now that my case has been dismissed and I have my pardon.
You know, they're always like, you know, it was really crazy for us to see you there because it was obvious that you didn't belong.
And so this is where the diesel therapy starts.
So this is a common tactic.
All J6ers went through this in some form or another.
So first I went to Eden, Texas, had an impromptu interrogation as a terrorist, like where I was physically removed from the rest of the population, taken into a separate building, placed into a room with one man who I later found out was like the intake coordinator of that facility.
I cannot remember his name right now.
He's in the lawsuit.
So we'll be seeing more about that to come.
But he, you know, he brings me in, does an impromptu interrogation, says that he knows that I'm a terrorist and I'm working with other people and stuff.
Not to mention that, like, you know, I do, I do believe in strong punishments for criminals.
Like, I'm not, you know, I think that there's gross negligence on a lot of judges for the sentences that they put on people.
But when you look at the prison system, it's a monopoly.
Like, it's all the same people that are making all the money keeping Americans behind bars.
And then like the grievance processes and things like that, there's a lot that needs to be done for prison reform, you know, just for, just for conditions.
And you'll, you'll see that in the next part of this, this segment.
Like by the time that I get to Washington, D.C., I've already seen like not at Lubbock County, like nothing happened there, but at some of the other facilities, like federal, like transfer, like Core Civic, you know, you see dudes in there that are being forced to like put lipstick on with MMs, like green MMs.
They have to dunk them in water and hold somebody's pocket.
And this is all in, you know, plain view of staff.
But when you look at some of the other people, Enrique Tario, Ryan Samsel, some of the conditions, like I had it bad, like when I got to DC, but I got to be out.
I got to be with my family.
I got to meet with my attorneys.
I didn't have to spend two, three, four years in solitary confinement, being driven crazy.
My extent was just the DC, and then I had to go to a federal prison in Arizona, which that's a whole nother thing in itself.
Right there, you know, my worst part of my journey was, well, it will always be the two miscarriages.
And what is given to all of these different agencies across the region is everyone.
And what they actually told people in person, they were still talking about Brian Sicknick and his death and how like Jay Sixers like beat him to death or something like that, which he died from natural causes.
You know, we saw that.
We've seen the autopsy report.
They told cops at the scene that I had murdered a police officer.
Of course, these guys are coming slamming.
None of that's in the official paperwork, though.
This is just what I know from, you know, doing my own research and coming back and talking to people.
So by the time that I get to DC, well, D.C. is obviously a Democratic district.
All of the people that work at this jail are not, at least on the intake side, a majority of them, they're not from this country.
They're all foreigners.
So when we get there, the abuse starts.
Like, I've got, I can show you like scars on my wrist from where they dug handcuffs into me until I bled.
That's where they just like my family had no idea where I was.
They wouldn't like they wouldn't let attorneys know that you were being transferred.
They would just move you from place to place to place.
So I went from Lubbock County to Eden, Texas to the Core Civic facility.
Then I was taken to Midland, Texas, but we did a big round road trip all the way up to like Anton, Texas, then back down.
Then I went over to Midland.
I got on Conair.
Actually flew on the you know big CON AIR plane and I flew from Midland to Oklahoma City.
Then I went to the federal sorting center just outside of Oklahoma City and then I was also putting on to a smaller plane.
I was flown to either somewhere in Pennsylvania or New Jersey and then we did a road trip where they didn't allow us to stop, like period, until we got to the jail, like they stopped on the side of the road to relieve themselves but they wouldn't let us out to do it.
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And then were you handcuffed during this trip, the entire time, shackles, handcuffs and a box over the top.
Um, I mean, they were some, you know, a little rowdy.
I mean it's, you know, it's prison jail, like they've.
You know talking talking crap, like everything else, but you know, pretty relaxed, i'd say for the most part.
Um, at least from what I like.
Up until that point, like then, I was like, you know, still like new to the whole, you know, being arrested scene, so I didn't really know like, what rowdy meant then.
But then um, you know, so we uh we're, we're in there, we finally get there.
I get my moldy hem sandwich um, and then it takes hours to get processed.
So they come in, they take a picture of your iris uh, you know, of your, of your eye, sorry.
And um, you know, get your fingerprints, get everything done.
If you said anything to them, they're either going to like push you, shove your head into something like they're very, very aggressive, and then um my, so the reason that I have the scars on my wrist from the handcuffs is because I asked this particular gentleman where he wanted me to put my clothes and he told me, shut the f up, do what he says.
And then, as soon as that happened, I was like okay, here or there basically, and he just was like, just turn around.
And so he put cuffs on me, taking me all the way through.
Um, I still like, there's just so, there's still a lot of trauma from this that I sort through.
I wasn't living my life the way I was supposed to, but I can definitely tell you that this woke me up to where you know it's, it's and i'll get.
I'll get into that.
You'll see the exact moment here in just a minute too.
But you know, I I make it to the first cell and um, the first cell that i'm introduced to at this facility has a quarter inch of urine and feces on the ground, and there's no running water in this cell like eventually, they turn the water on to where it's there, but we're talking two days later, you know.
So i'm in here, i'm in this cell that's covered in mold, urine and feces another person's urine and feces, not mine, by the way.
And so at this point in time, this is when I'm starting to complain.
I'm saying, you know, like, hey, can you get me a plunger?
Like, can I have a mop?
Can I have anything?
Denied, They're not letting me out.
I haven't showered.
It's been three days, been there, no shower.
At this point, it's really been like five days because I haven't showered since I left the sorting center in Oklahoma.
Okay.
So, you know, I had to do a whole flight plus a drive, you know, to get there at this point.
I haven't really eaten anything.
I'm getting food at this for these couple of first days that I'm there.
And I finally get an attorney call.
And I had some other attorneys that they're Democrats.
They decided not to continue with my case because I refused the plea deal.
I wouldn't take it.
I sent you a copy of that as well.
So you can see like the verbiage and what like the government wanted me to admit to in order to receive probation versus a 20-year felony.
And so I complained to my attorney and she calls the facility and says, you know, we want to do a conditions check.
So they moved me all the way to the end.
I'm at the very end cell of the block.
And this made them very mad, very, very mad.
As a matter of fact, I only got to come out to shower like twice during this point.
And one of them is super critical.
So I'm here for however many weeks that I'm at this facility.
And this is when they started putting bleach in my food or Windex, any type of chemical that was in there.
I never had another meal that if I got to eat, didn't have some kind of chemical in it because I had complained about the facility.
And obviously I got somebody in trouble, but I still don't know who that is to this day because they won't open records, you know, for J Sixers.
So I never, I asked for a Bible every single day that I was there, which is why I carry mine with me everywhere I go, brought here to the studio today.
I was allowed to have a book.
So this is the only thing that I had in solitary confinement the entire time that I was there.
It was an eighth grade level reading book about a slave owner who falls in love with a slave, cheats on his wife, and runs away to the north with her.
Perfect reading for an eighth grade, you know, school, I guess, in Washington, D.C.
And so I'm sitting in my cell.
I'm losing lots of weight.
Like I'm, I don't have a cup to drink out of.
I'm drinking out of the bag that my soap came in.
I'm getting, I'm very sick.
I'm rinsing out like rice and trying to rinse off.
Like they would give us boiled eggs.
If, and then when they would deliver my food, they would, you know, bring in like the little styrofoam things too.
And sometimes there would just not be anything in there.
So I would go for days on end without eating, or I would have, you know, rice and a piece of ham that's completely soaked in bleach that I have to stick inside of my socks and start bringing it out, you know, just to be able to have some sustenance.
And it like I'm, I'm having all kinds of stomach issues.
I'm losing weight very, very, very rapidly at this point.
And I'm getting very sick.
Well, then one day they finally let me out for a shower.
And of course, somebody goes in my cell and I'm thinking, you know, oh, they're probably just doing an inspection or something like that.
Well, what had actually happened was they tried to kill me.
They went in and they placed raw pieces of chicken inside of my water line to where it would, I would turn on the faucet and the water would come out and it would go past the raw pieces of chicken.
And I didn't figure this out for, I don't really know when, like how many days it was because I had like no sense of time because I didn't have a tablet.
I didn't have anything that other prisoners were allowed to be afforded because I was all the way at the end.
And The only way that I knew this was because I was drinking out of that bag that my soap came in and a little piece fell out.
And I was able to stick my toothbrush, my little government-issued two-inch toothbrush up inside of there and knock all of that chicken out.
And there were three pieces about this big inside of there.
And mind you, I went in at like, I'm like, I'm since I got out of prison, like obviously I've been, I've been eating a little bit, you know, but I went in at like 180.
I came out at like 130 pounds.
Like I would get out.
You lost 50 pounds, 50 pounds in custody in Washington, D.C. You know, when you consider like stress, not eating, you know, just the overwhelming amount of stress, like having nosebleeds all the time from the chemicals that are in my food, throwing up all the time because my stomach hurts and I don't have anything to keep it down, being denied medical at all, not never allowed to have a medical form, never allowed to have a grievance form, nothing.
Like we were isolated alone, left there to die.
I thought I was going to die.
As I say it before you now, I thought there was a point in time where I was going to die.
I was looking out the window of the cemetery.
There's a cemetery that goes around this building on the backside.
And I would watch people.
It was the only thing I had because I only had that one book about a slave that I, you know, slid back out under the door so somebody else could have something to do.
And I would watch people walk their dogs through the cemetery.
And I looked out there and I was like, I'm going to die in here.
You know, it's just crazy to me that I would have a four-year-old, a three-year-old, an 18-month-old, and then one more on the way right now with our other daughter that's expected in April.
And I just, they're the reason that I fight because I have to leave something behind for them.
And then so, you know, we would go through this whole process of going back and forth to trial, but the imminent peace that just reigned over me, you know, from that point, it's one of the things that, you know, like, yeah, it was difficult getting convicted in D.C., but, you know, 14 Democrats, two Democrat, you know, prosecutors.
I have, you know, three federal witnesses that I can now prove perjured themselves in their testimony.
I had 300 Brady violations.
They refused to turn over 300 points of evidence from my camera, cell phone, and SD cards that I took for pictures on the day.
All the way up into the trial, they were still saying that I had assaulted police officers, gone into the building, and was just running like ruckus that day.
So we got those dismissed.
I was September 23rd.
I was convicted of the obstruction felony, 1512 C2, that was overturned at the Supreme Court.
I was put on stay and a motion to stay until the Supreme Court ruled on that.
And then when we got to sentencing, I was only convicted of the two misdemeanors.
And there's a very critical aspect.
I sent you all the picture last night of what it was supposed to be posted outside.
Well, John Nassif, another J6er, just got his, you know, the Supreme Court didn't actually hear the case, but they made a ruling on it that said that the First Amendment application ends the second a person crosses the threshold of the United States Capitol.
So if that's the case, and they made the ruling on his that the First Amendment ends, I never crossed the threshold.
So we'll see what the future holds for my lawsuits against the federal government.
Like, what are you doing with your life when you're just so I'm I'm still active in safety like I can get a like I work in safety right now.
Um I'm what is it very safety?
Uh, so I'm I am a safety coordinator.
So I look at like what people are doing when they work and decide, um, which I mean, I have a boss, you know, so it's like yeah, no, I just, I didn't mean specifically who do you work for, but like what.
So you like go into a work site and assess what I do, I do audits and I watch like behavioral mechanisms to see like if ergonomically there's something that we could change to stop somebody from getting hurt.
Are there like, can we put a guard to prevent somebody from sticking their hand inside of here?
And then I was also at some of the harshest times.
So I was actually working.
I have no problem trashing them.
I was working for Bear Crop Science as their, as their safety director for the research and development department and working with Cotton, you know, all these different just stuff that's relevant to my area, you know, where I live.
And then all of that paperwork and everything is bound up.
And there's only a select group of people that can know what's being sprayed out of an airplane, you know, 500 yards from your house on land that they're leasing.
You know, there's some, there's some real issues and some transparency issues that need to be handled.
And that's one of the things that I hope to go forward with in Congress, you know, if elected is that.
I think it was very scary the fact that, so my wife and I, we've never had a wedding because we couldn't.
I didn't want them to label her as a domestic terrorist.
If you go in and look at the Quiet Skies program and, you know, also the way that the Patriot Act is allowed to move throughout communities, the Patriot Act, I believe, is one of the most unconstitutional acts that was ever passed after 9-11.
They're literally able to quantify you.
So I was labeled as a white, as a white Christian nationalist and then a domestic terrorist.
So this is the first flight that I've had that doesn't have the four S's at the bottom of it since February 4th, 2021.
This flight, this flight here, to where I didn't get stopped at every single gate that I went through for never even going into the building.
So, you know, and like, and, you know, going back to the whole work thing, I do have to say that I did travel all across the state of Texas and speak.
I would do speaking engagements too, where I would talk about J6.
I had the Trump trailer was gifted to me by one of the GOP chairs in Amarillo.
And I was selling Trump merchandise all across the state of Texas at events, Fourth of July, any place that I could find that I could post up all while running for Congress in the last term, you know, as well while I'm, you know, going through this because no representation.
There were only two people that actually stood up for me out of all the offices that I called, including Jody Arrington, the current budget committee chairman and congressman for my district that's retiring.
Of course, he asked for money, but we got multiple phone calls from unavailable numbers that said, if your dad drops out of the race, we'll drop the charges.
We'll give you $200,000 to drop and take the plea deal.
But, you know, and like he, he does, and he, like, he gets real emotional about it sometimes.
But the thing is, is that we never stopped to fight.
We never stopped.
All this did was make me mad, the things that I've been through.
All this did was prove that our government has too much power.
All this does is prove that the people of the United States of America have had their constitutional rights whittled away from them one vote at a time in a room of like 435 people that then goes up to the Senate, gets signed off on.
That's where we're at because we, I believe that we're, I fully believe that we are not in a battle against flesh and, against flesh and blood, but spiritual battle for the United States of America and not just for that, for our world.
And that's one of the biggest parts of my message of why I want to run for Congress is not just what I've been through, which was a nightmare, but it was who stood with me while I was in the fire.
And that's Jesus Christ.
That's my faith.
There are three books that built this nation, the Bible, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
And they all three play off of each other.
And that is my platform because the United States was designed to be run underneath the men who have the respect for the Bible.
And if you don't have that, then your oath means nothing.
Any oath that somebody takes to this country and some of the oaths in Washington, D.C., I don't think they're valid either.
Like when you look at Jeb Bosberg, a skull and bones member, you know, there's lots of things with him that are just ridiculous.
That's my judge.
And if you don't, like for the viewers, if you don't know who that judge is, that's the one that's trying to make President Trump bring back the 127 Venezuelans who were put on a plane and he tried to make the plane turn back around.
You know, this is an unelected official trying to dictate out of a district of the United States of America, trying to dictate exactly what a president can do, what the Supreme Court can do, what you can do.
And then he's destroying lives.
He's the chief judge in DC.
And I believe that he's responsible because even at trial, like he denied me a defense of the First Amendment, allowed 300 Brady violations, witnesses to lie.
You know, he says, like, I'll give you an example of one of the jurors that I had.
So one of the people that was approved for jury for my trial was a Democrat leader for, I think it was the Netherlands, who he literally stated when he came, he was like, I don't think that I can sit for this case because I believe that everyone that was at the Capitol that day is a terrorist.
And James Bosberg was like, well, what we're talking about specifically is this defendant.
Have you seen anybody or anything about him that would lead you to believe that you couldn't be bare and partisan?
And he said, well, I guess not.
And they said, great, we'll see you at four o'clock for selection.
This is in my transcripts.
Like that's the kind of fairness that we had.
14 Democrats, one of them cared so little about my life, he fell asleep and then never showed back up after the third day.
And, you know, I really do think that mainstream leftist leaning media is the true enemy of the people of the United States because you can still tell a lie while telling a portion of the truth.
Like if you, if you leave out, you know, any part that's absolutely relevantly critical, you can completely spin a story while it's true.
Like what they're saying for as far as libel, slander goes, you know, those probably don't apply.
Defamation, because one portion of it is true, like they'll be fine in a courtroom, but we don't have judges that are going after them, you know, for the way that they portray things.
And I think that there should be accountability in media.
I think that Manny from Abilene gave me a fair shot.
That's it.
You know, I mean, as far as far as like the, you know, the leftist leaning, like NBC, ABC affiliates, now like the Epoch Times, like all the people that I talked to along the way, you know, Diamond and Silk, like all the shows that I've been on, they've been very fair, you know, asked some hard questions, you know, and things that people wanted to know.
And I think, I think that's fine.
I think that's great, you know, banter.
But then, you know, you look back at, you know, what was done to me this last week.
I was at a, I was at a forum.
KCBD comes in.
They do an interview with me.
And instead of actually showing, so like, I've already filed an appeal and my case has been dismissed.
So not only did I go through all of this, but my case is now dismissed and I'm pardoned by the president.
So instead of stating all of the facts, they just said, you know, put up a video of me talking about the district and then said, Zinc was convicted of crimes in September of 23, even despite the fact that none of those are relevant anymore.
So, and I, and I use them and I encourage everybody to have them.
And every, you know, everywhere that I go, I, I carry, and I think every American should too.
I think you should be given two things at birth: a Bible and a gun.
Yep.
And learn to use them both accordingly because they will be the biggest weapons that you need to fight everything in this world, particularly more so on the Bible.
I mean, there are some people you're just never going to reach.
I mean, it's like you can see it on like Facebook posts, Twitter posts, which I don't even have a congressional Facebook page right now because they seized it again.
Yeah, basically saying that I'm not who I say that I am, even though I am a congressional candidate.
They keep seizing it.
And I can, I'll scroll through my phone.
I got like 50 different examples.
I'm actually filing charges with the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office over this.
I'm not really sure what's going to be able to be done about this because, you know, we saw like Kara Caster Nova fight her case against Facebook.
And I think she spent a couple million dollars and lost.
But, you know, this is one of those things where a left-leaning liberal ally, like he's donated like $500 million to Democrats, speaking specifically about Mark Zuckerberg.
And then they have the right to deny my voters my opinion just because they can say that I'm disingenuous.
I can tell you why, I think, is because a majority of the J6 Facebook profiles were surrendered voluntarily.
They didn't even have to get a warrant on a majority of them.
Now, there were warrants that were issued.
Some of them actually came later, but the things that people post that are now public information, three-letter agencies can take that and they can do compression files on it.
And that's how they were like labeling people and rounding people up with, you know, the like people have no idea what they're agreeing to when they click that box.
Like they just want the Facebook account.
They want to be able to connect to, you know, Chad from Billings, Montana they went to high school with, but they don't see the danger that's behind what they're actually agreeing to that is perfectly legal because it's a private company.
And that's, that's part of the issue.
That's some, some of the things that I want to change when I get there, not just like, there's a lot of stuff about my district that I like to cover, but, you know, there's, there's a lot of protections that Americans voluntarily give up that they should be made aware of.
Like it should literally be a checkbox that says, do you, are you aware that any photo that you post on here is compiled into an AI drive to help identify you?
That's something that should be talked about.
It's very clearly in a long, you know, summation of wording, you're agreeing to that.
And it's there and it's real.
And this is a very clear and present danger.
You know, like AI is a big concern of mine because one, we have to stay out ahead of China.
I think this, so in our, in, in my district, this is a big issue because we're, we're getting AI centers, we're getting data centers.
We're going, we're, you know, we're very concerned about how we're going to keep water in our districts.
I would like to, uh, so I would like to get on several committees, like the ag board, energy sector, and because I believe that we can do this, but at what cost?
I mean, we're already $40 trillion in debt.
We just spent like, what, another $800 million like yesterday, David?
And, you know, and but you see this all the time where we we get promised something to say like wind turbines, they said that it was going to be like one of the greatest things.
I built them, I built hundreds of these things.
They're not ever going to pay for themselves, you know.
I think that, you know, once people see the full story of J6 plus, you know, there, I think so.
So one of the people that we have is Tom Sell.
He is a lobbyist.
He's worked in, you know, he's worked in ag for a long time, but for both sides.
And not all of the things that he's worked on, do I feel really had the relevancy to quantify experience?
I think that he was there with Larry Combust whenever he was a congressman for our district, the first Republican congressman when we flipped and have been a Republican ever since.
But I'm not really keen on 76% of the farm bill going to snap benefits.
I think it's a waste of money.
You know, there's a lot of things about the farm bill that need to be changed.
I mean, the farmers in our area, well, not just here, but all across the United States, but this is the district that I love that I call home.
We have some of the highest input costs that we've ever seen ever.
And we need a farm bill that stops putting a band-aid on funding.
I mean, we have a slew of things.
I think one of the most important issues that's been neglected, not only in the first farm bill that he helped write, is insurance.
We're at a giant insurance war and also in funding.
Like it is very, very hard to get ag lending with the interest rates, with the amount of money that goes down.
Not to mention if you're trying to buy a new tractor, I don't know if you've looked at the price of some of those lately.
It's astonishing how much it's costing us.
And then at the same time, you know, we have grifters that are coming in across the district that make these raucous claims about they've generated millions of votes for Donald Trump with an organization for, you know, like Abraham Enriquez.
And I've seen no relevant information outside of what his campaign puts out that he's raised millions of votes for Donald Trump.
You know, I hear it from so these are you're talking about a candidate in the primary.
Yes.
So I don't know how you've been treated, but having watched other people make similar statements about the way our system works, I think you're going to get attacked.
I've been attacked for five years now, but on my grounds.
I've had death threats.
We've had somebody come out to my house and place three targets, three shooting targets on my vehicles, one for me, one for my wife, and one for my daughter.
I turn those over to the Hockley County Sheriff's Office, and they took a report.
There were no fingerprints.
Nothing came out of it.
You know, I get attacked for being at J6.
I get attacked for my faith on a regular basis.
You know, little nefarious group of, no, I'm not just going to say Democrats.
I'm just going to say, you know, people that don't believe, you know, the spiritual warfare aspect of it.
There's always that attack.
But the threats on my life and my family are the ones that, you know, it's, it's, uh, it's something that I hope nobody has to experience, but I'm there, you know, already.
You know, we, we have guys in our race that are parading around, you know, after getting the government's endorsement with security in Jones County.
Like nobody wants to shoot anybody in Jones County.
You know, this is a very, very small district that, you know, has lost, you know, two hospitals, which is another huge, you know, huge issue.
And then we have, you know, just continuing like with who I'm running against, Jason Corley, Precinct 2 Commissioner for Lubbock, Texas.
I like Jason.
I think he's a great guy, honestly.
I think he's got some experience and some knowledge that I think would benefit across the district.
Not to say that I don't have the same experience.
I've been entirely focused on how Congress works for five years, trying to overcome laws that would not just benefit me, but 1,600 people.
I think there's some things that he wants to do that are great for the district that I would love to be a part of too.
But there's just some, there's something missing and it's not like a smash at him because I think there's guys that have run for the right reason.
And then you have Donal May, who's 80 years old.
He's a, I believe he's a neurosurgeon, if I, if I remember correctly, has a, you know, decorated veteran.
You know, he's a, he's a, he's a wonderful man.
Do we really want to put up, you know, look at Mitch McConnell this week?
Like where are we, where are we at across the line of where, how old is, is too old.
Like he, he seems pretty chipper, but some of the things that he says, I, I think it's more of a fantasy than a reality of what you're actually going to get to committing.
The biggest thing that I see that is like holding Americans back is that we have to get control of our spending.
Our budget is designed to protect America, benefit the American citizens.
And then we get into foreign policy about where typically our money has gone.
It leaves our country.
And I have a huge issue with that.
And some of the other candidates, they don't.
They don't have an issue with that.
I'm America first.
I believe if it doesn't benefit Americans, then we shouldn't be doing it.
And I don't care what country it is.
There's no reason for us to be sending billions and billions of dollars, one, to research, you know, transgender frogs in South America, like what, you know, any of these other crazy things that have come out with Doge.
And we should not only be allowing Doge to continue, but we should be way more actively involved in where our spending goes.
And I do think at this point, when you find out that like everyone at DOJ has been sitting on the Epstein files for 15 years and they knew they're complicit in it.
And so at this point, the government has very little legitimacy left, I would say.
I don't feel that they're legitimate.
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And I just think that there's no transparency at all.
You have to have the experience of going through something like I did to see the wording, to see the writing on the wall and not donate money to the other side for this cause or stand firm in the gap for where you are because we're never going to get anywhere if we don't fix it.
Like I really feel, you know, we're coming up on 250 years here.
It's life worth.
What are we going to leave behind for our children?
I just want to say that if every viewer that watched this sent me $5, we could keep the district in its entirety in Republican control.
I think that that would be more than enough.
But I only take money from people that believe in me.
I don't want to take money from PACS.
You know, everybody says, you know, yeah, well, they'll give you all this.
I want business owners.
I want true patriots, Americans who are sick of the system that we live in to get behind me.
I don't want to see, if you think that I'm going to bow down to a cause like with Major Farm or something like that, that would get me to vote a certain way that dishonors the people of my district or dishonors the way that I would live my Christian life.
I don't want you money.
But if you want to be one of the people that believes in me, that stands up for American values, that stands up for a country that was founded on biblical principles, you can go and you can find everything about my campaign and about me at ryanzinc.vote.
That's R-Y-A-N-D-I-N-K dot vote.
I'm on X at Ryan Z for Congress.
That's the tag handle.
And then RyanZinc is my Facebook.
And then I also, I have a TikTok, but I use that more of a platform for my Bible studies.
If I feel led to move, you know, something to get a message out on there, I put that on TikTok.
And that's just Ryan Z, Ryan Zinc for Congress on there.