WASHINGTON — Brandon Fellows was busy taunting D.C. pedestrians from a window excessive above them on Thursday when he briefly paused to speak about why he believes Donald Trump will pardon him instantly upon starting his second time period as president.
“Yeah! Trump won! Their body, our choice!” Fellows shouted at one confused passerby in D.C.’s Navy Yard district, earlier than HuffPost approached him.
Fellows, whose face was squished into the perhaps five-inch hole beneath the constructing’s open window, is at present on probation for his position within the Jan. 6, 2021 revolt on the U.S. Capitol. He served three years in jail, and is presently barred from going past a 50-mile radius of D.C.
(He can in reality depart the constructing, which is the place he mentioned he lives, however at one level defined that staying inside “protects me from the unhinged liberals if they get mad at me.”)
HuffPost watched him yell down feedback at a handful of individuals strolling by. He initially trolled HuffPost, too, shouting one thing celebratory about Trump profitable the election earlier than complimenting this reporter’s shirt, a sports activities jersey for the Washington Spirit ladies’s soccer staff. This didn’t compute, so HuffPost went again moments later to speak.
“I’m the only D.C. J6 defendant here,” he mentioned, referring to being certain to D.C.
Fellows, who’s from Schenectady, New York, hasn’t been significantly welcome within the nation’s capital: Somebody punched him within the face in July at a D.C. restaurant.
In June, the Trump loyalist was escorted out of a congressional listening to on the Covid pandemic, throughout which he made faces on-camera behind Anthony Fauci, the previous longtime director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments, because the physician described receiving dying threats.
“I don’t want to live here, but they forced me to live here,” Fellows complained Thursday. “I want to go back home. I want to go back to New York.”
Fellows, 30, appeared desirous to have somebody to speak to. He requested a number of occasions throughout the 10-minute trade to be tagged on social media ― earlier than and after he knew he was speaking to a journalist. And he mentioned he feels assured about Trump pardoning him and the tons of of different Jan. 6 rioters sentenced to jail.
“The rest of us are coming out soon,” Fellows mentioned with a smile.
“He said day one he’s pardoning us,” he continued. “I’m not violent, so I’m definitely getting pardoned. For misdemeanor stuff. The felonies are the ones where they actually hold you in jail.”
Fellows was sentenced on felony and misdemeanor prices. Throughout the Jan. 6 assault, he climbed into the Capitol constructing by a shattered window and stood on damaged furnishings waving a “Trump 2020” flag, in response to the Justice Division. After filming a rioter ramming the Senate Parliamentarian’s door with a cane, he walked into an Oregon senator’s personal workplace, put his ft up on a convention desk and smoked weed.
On Thursday, Fellows, who gave the impression to be filming the folks he harassed, appeared to be making an attempt to be deliberately provocative.
Out of nowhere, he mentioned he thought the Civil Battle “was beneficial for the country” and that lives would have been saved on Jan. 6 “if an actual insurrection took place.” These feedback simply hung within the air.
“This is my city now,” he interjected at one level. “Because gender is fluid here, I’m a female now.”
He mentioned he’s involved concerning the nationwide debt, and falsely accused former President Barack Obama of accelerating the debt “more than all presidents combined.” (Complete debt did rise extra below Obama over his two phrases in workplace than throughout Trump’s one time period. Nevertheless it wasn’t anyplace close to the degrees of all presidents mixed, and throughout the Trump period, the nationwide debt went means up.)
He mentioned he hopes Trump makes use of his second time period to chop off cash to Ukraine, to shut the U.S.-Mexico border and to do “a little cleansing” on the Justice Division. He particularly mentioned he hopes Trump clears folks out on the FBI.
Fellows could have had extra ideas to share, however HuffPost needed to get going. He appeared somewhat lonely up there, talking from his barely seen condo window. “I wish it opened more,” he mentioned at one level, his face pressed into the hole.
He reiterated he’s the one Jan. 6 defendant pressured to reside in D.C.
“I don’t have family here,” mentioned Fellows. “Fortunately, I have tons of supporters out there and I’ve got fan mail from every other state, and even other countries.”
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As HuffPost headed off, he added, “If you post this, tag me on X.”
