Thread by @ryanjreilly

In dramatic testimony at Guy Reffitt’s Jan. 6 trial, his son Jackson Reffitt testifies that he sent a tip to the FBI while alone in his bedroom on Christmas Eve 2020.

He never heard from the FBI until after the Jan. 6 attack.

The government has displayed a number of text messages from the family text chain.

Jackson Reffitt’s messages are in blue.

Guy Reffitt’s messages are in green.

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Jackson Reffitt says he sarcastically called his dad “a hero” on the family text chain. When he read the “a hero” quote in court just now, he raised his eyebrows in the way you’d expect.

Jackson Reffitt: “Yeah you know they are tracking down everyone who was there right?”

Guy Reffitt: “Yeppers.”

Jackson Reffitt: “Through the media and cell phone footage? Isn’t that ya know bad…”

Guy Reffitt: “Yep, don’t care. I broke no laws.”

Jackson: “Like felons and 20 years in prison.”

Guy: “Like nope. Didn’t break any laws.”

Jackson: “I thought you overtook the united states capital? And broke through police barricades. And assaulted by police.”

Guy: “We did but I didn’t break any laws."

“Me telling Patriots to hold my beer and watch this.” — Guy Reffitt, who circled himself in Fox News footage from the Jan. 6 attack, in a family text chain.

Jackson Reffitt testified that Guy Reffitt was “very happy” when he arrived back home after Jan. 6.

Jackson Reffitt testifying about recording his dad, but says he felt “pretty gross” about it.

“I had a good time. I had a very epic moment… I felt so patriotic… I felt so good.” — Guy Reffitt, as recorded by his son.

Government plays a lengthy recording of Guy Reffitt bragging to his family about his actions. Says people called him a “patriot” after he got sprayed.

“She was cute, you know,” Guy Reffitt says of the officer who shot at him with less lethal projectiles as charged up the stairs.

“There was no reason for me to give up,” Guy Reffitt said. “The bad people are in that building… They’re disgusting people."

"What happened was only the preface of the book,” Guy Reffitt said. “It’s just a notification of what you’re going to read in the future.”

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“This gun right here was loaded,” Guy Reffitt said.

In the clip, Guy Reffitt talked about how many people he knew who were armed in the crowd.

In the clip, Guy Reffitt says he told the officer who testified yesterday that she’d be tried for treason on Jan. 6. “That’s treason, against the people of the republic,” he says in the clip.

“I did bring a weapon,” Guy Reffitt told his son in the recording, after Jackson Reffitt asked him about bringing a gun onto federal property.

“That was a historic day,” Guy Reffitt said. “I’m not done yet… The beginning, bro!”

“Clearly he wasn’t just talking at this point,” Jackson Reffitt testifies.