Thread by @ryanjreilly

“What do you want me to tell you? That I
tased him? Yes. Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.”

Here’s Trump fanatic Danny Rodriguez confessing to electroshocking D.C. Officer Mike Fanone on Jan. 6.

(Will add key moments of the FBI interview here as the videos process.)

Danny Rodriguez was arrested by the FBI in March, one month after he was named in a HuffPost story as the rioter who electroshocked Officer Mike Fanone. Now he's trying to get his confession suppressed. huffpost.com/entry/daniel-r…

Danny Rodriguez: "Trump called us. Trump called us to D.C... he's the commander in chief and the leader of our country, and he's calling for help -- I thought he was calling for help."

Here's Danny Rodriguez talking about how he tried to join the Army after Trump became president and showed up to a recruitment center in a Trump shirt.

More to come…

FBI: "the court of public opinion has a story from the Huffington Post, has a story from Waterspider on Twitter, from Antifa and BLM."

Danny Rodriguez: "My story is just that we thought that we were going to save America, and we were wrong."

FBI: "We talked about the story that's being written by -- about Danny, right? Danny gets to choose if he writes a story today with us. But right now, the story that's being told is by D.C. -- is by Antifa, BLM, and the Huffington Post."

"I don't fly because I have issues with flying. But there was an idea that, if anybody needed to take anything, like, weed maybe, knife, pepper spray, that stuff's not going to be able to get on the plane."

FBI: "Full disclosure, all the cards are out on the table, you're looking at seven federal felony counts. Seven."

Danny Rodriguez: "What is that? The rest of my life in prison?"

FBI: "It's a lot of years, man."

"We felt that they stole the election... we felt that they stole this country, that it's gone, it's wiped out. America's over... it's very stupid and ignorant, and I see that it's a big joke, that we thought that we thought that we were going to save this country."

"We thought we were... part of a bigger thing. We thought we were being used as a part of a plan to save the country, to save America, save The Constitution, and the election, the integrity."

Q. You thought you were that three percent guy.

A. (Crying.)

"I'm so stupid. I thought I was going to be awesome. I thought I was a good guy."

FBI: "Tasering Officer Fanone, that was a really bad choice, too."

RODRIGUEZ: "Yeah."

FBI: "But..."

RODRIGUEZ: "I just thought that were going to end up..."

FBI: "On the right side."

Danny Rodriguez: "Am I mental? Am I? Am I just that stupid?... Did we all really just -- are we all that stupid that we thought we were going to go do this and save the country and it was all going to be fine after? We really thought that. That's so stupid, huh?"

"I thought that I was doing the right thing. I thought it was all going to be different. I thought Trump was going to stay President. I don't know. I just can't believe my life, what I did to it."

MR. RODRIGUEZ: Is there really going to be all these prison cells open for all of us or what?

AGENT ELIAS: What are you talking about?

MR. RODRIGUEZ: Is there enough room for all those 10,000 patriots?

AGENT ELIAS: Do you follow QAnon very much?

Story here. Working on getting the whole video up today. huffpost.com/entry/danny-ro…

Meanwhile, a right-wing pundit who has appeared with Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and previously called Mike Fanone a “crisis actor” is now claiming that a MAGA hatted rioter who drove a stun gun into Fanone’s neck was framed “bc he protested.”