Thread by @ryanjreilly

“Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.”

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1449208673864192001

“I’m a piece of shit… I’m an asshole.” — Danny Rodriguez. Here’s our story revealing Danny’s identity: huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…

Federal public defenders are great and are going to make the best possible argument on their client’s behalf, but boy D.J. Rodriguez didn’t really give them much to work with here.

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1449164486225666049

Hard to imagine that the confession even matters at trial, it’s all right there on multiple videos. huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…

“1776 is back! I survived the taking of the US Capitol and got this tshirt With picture of the capital.” — Danny Rodriguez after he electroshocked Officer Mike Fanone huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…

MAGA fanatic Danny Rodriguez: "I'm so weak. I'm crying…”

"Oh, God. I shouldn't be crying. I'm a grown man and I knew what I was doing. Whatever happens to me is going to have to happen to me because I —“

"there's a story that's being written about Danny Rodriguez... the court of public opinion has a story from the Huffington Post, has a story from Waterspider on Twitter, from Antifa and BLM…”

Gotta hand it to this FBI special agents, he’s a master interviewer.

FBI: "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…”

Gotta update the bureau on the style change. It’s just HuffPost now.

huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…

"What is that? The rest of my life in prison?”

"It's a lot of years, man.”

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"Is that really the story you want to be written about you? Is that in all of my benevolence, I decided I was going to taser this man who is struggling for his life in that moment and thinking he's going to die. Four daughters.”

...

“I’m not smart.”

"I mean, they did all the work for us.”

CC: @1600PennPooch

"it's very stupid and ignorant, and I see that it's a big joke, that we thought that we were going to save this country, we were doing the right thing and stuff.”

"I literally didn't know that there was Congress -- they were there voting that day.”

More supporting evidence for Danny Rodriguez’s admission that he is “not smart.”

"Look. When you -- when we talk about 1776, we see that there was a lot of -- there was a lot of violence… I didn't think that I was going to be the bad guy.”

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

"Yeah.”

"You did have a Yahoo account?

"Oh God, no... It would've been, like, 15 years ago or something."

"I said, Joe Biden's going to be President over my dead body, I remember. Yeah. I'm still alive, so I failed.”

FBI to Rodriguez: "you're the one that D.C.'s got this freaking hard-on for because of what you did, you know?”

"I was prepared to not come back... I'm nothing. I'm nobody... I'm so stupid.”

"I'm embarrassed by it and I'm ashamed by it. And my mom's going to find out about it, probably.”

Danny Rodriguez’s internet sources before he electroshocked Officer Mike Fanone? Steven Crowder, Mark Dice, InfoWars, the Hodgetwins.

(Crying.)

"Am I mental? Am I? Am I just that stupid? I mean, yes.”

“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?”

"We're with you guys. Come on, guys. We back the blue.”

Crying makes 16 appearances in the transcript. Stupid makes 9.

This is so delusional, but not that unexpected when you consider it’s coming from the type of person who actually literally believes the election was stolen.

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1449500005694414848

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1449477722271625226

Story here: huffpost.com/entry/danny-ro…