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Texas teen tipped FBI off about dad’s involvement in Capitol riot
New York Post ^ | January 24, 2021 | 11:23pm | Tamar LapinJanuary 24, 2021 | 11:23pm | Updated

Posted on 01/24/2021 10:05:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

An 18-year-old Texas man tipped off the FBI about his father’s role in the US Capitol riot — and said he’d do it again.

Jackson Reffitt — whose dad Guy Reffitt was charged last week in the Jan. 6 siege — told local outlet Fox4 that he acted out of moral obligation.

“It was my moral compass.. to do what I thought would protect not only my family, but my dad himself,” he said.

“I would do it again.”

The elder Reffitt, of Wylie, had allegedly threatened his son and daughter saying: “If you turn me in, you’re a traitor and you know what happens to traitors … traitors get shot,” court papers state.

His son told the TV station, “I took that as a threat, but I never thought he would act upon it.”

Reffitt said that his dad is part of a far-right militia group and that he has embraced increasingly radicalized views over the years.

He was concerned about what would happen when law enforcement came to arrest his father, saying, “The police could’ve come in at any time, at a bad time, regardless of the situation and my dad could’ve opened fire.”

Calling the FBI, “wasn’t just because I think my dad is aggressive,” Reffitt said. “I think what he’s been manipulated into thinking is aggressive.”

He also recalled the moment he learned his father was at the siege.

“I think it was FOX playing, and it was just live screening of riots at the Capitol, and the rushing in, and my mom said your dad is there,” Reffitt said.

Guy Reffitt, 48, was tracked down by federal authorities after footage of him at the Capitol during the riot was played on YouTube and on Fox News on the day of the siege, according to court...

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KEYWORDS: arrest; bidenyouth; capitol; guyreffitt; j6; rally; texas; texasfreedomforce; tff
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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21 posted on 01/24/2021 10:58:24 PM PST by sauropod (#RecallMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Texas? It’s the home grown leftist being produced by their own public school systems.


22 posted on 01/24/2021 10:59:41 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum






Here's a pic of the little twink..
23 posted on 01/24/2021 11:06:34 PM PST by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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Dad must be heartbroken.


24 posted on 01/24/2021 11:09:50 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother — it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
- Orwell, 1984


25 posted on 01/24/2021 11:13:29 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: JadeEmperor

It sounds like the left wing indoctrinated little A-hole was looking to get one over on his dad.

If it were my kid I would put his ass on the street with the clothes on his back. If he wants to eat he can find a job and join in to out capitalist society. Many of us were on our own and independent at 18 and now it is his turn.

During the last civil war families ended up on different sides and not all of them lived through it. This little A-hole needs to figure out if he values his communist friends of his family more.

I’ll give him a hint, his communist friends won’t write him out of their will but his dad would be stupid not to.


26 posted on 01/24/2021 11:15:07 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He also recalled the moment he learned his father was at the siege.

"I was sitting in the BarcaLounger that my father bought with his own hard-earned money, playing with the Xbox that my father bought with his own hard-earned money, while simultaneously watching the t.v. that my father bought with his own hard-earned money. (My father is so materialistic! Down with capitalism!) Then, I saw... Etc., etc.

Regards,

27 posted on 01/24/2021 11:16:20 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: vpintheak

The left has always been about destroying the family unit and the strength of that family unity.


28 posted on 01/24/2021 11:16:34 PM PST by caww (“For the people” and “For the children” - signals we're about to be scammed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Video at link says, “THE FBI WAS ALREADY MONITORING HIS FATHER.”

Not only did the man’s son betray him, his country did as well.


29 posted on 01/24/2021 11:33:16 PM PST by .30Carbine
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I bet I know who his favorite vice-president is.


30 posted on 01/24/2021 11:55:34 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Viking2002

My mother used that line on me. I believed her.


31 posted on 01/25/2021 12:21:34 AM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: Bikkuri

Looks like a soy boy for sure.


32 posted on 01/25/2021 12:51:10 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

it’s now understandable why some animals eat their young...


33 posted on 01/25/2021 12:58:49 AM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The article references that the dad was a member of the Texas Freedom Force, and refers to is as a “far right wing extremist militia.” The TFF isn’t a militia at all. They are a political group that is pushing legislation to protect Texas monuments. The TFF has nothing to do with anything outside the state of Texas. The TFF states that the person in question was a member who registered and paid his dues online, but never attended any meetings or functions.


34 posted on 01/25/2021 1:24:34 AM PST by eastexsteve
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To: Bikkuri

So pretty!


35 posted on 01/25/2021 1:31:42 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This father may or may not be in a lot of trouble. The family is permanently broken. As for the brat, if he was mine I would not have threatened him, but I would disown and evict him - immediately. Calling the police on family is not okay, unless Dad committed a serious assault or worse.


36 posted on 01/25/2021 2:21:47 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: lee martell
Get real....his little leftists Nazi would have turned him in no matter what.

And WHAT exactly did the dad do at the Capitol?

37 posted on 01/25/2021 2:55:41 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Bikkuri

That’s a GIRL!!! He doesn’t have an ounce of manhood in him!


38 posted on 01/25/2021 2:57:59 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Viking2002

and make another one.


39 posted on 01/25/2021 3:01:00 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (God is in charge but he doesn't expect you to lean on the shovel expecting that a hole will appear.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s the beauty of red flag laws. Every family now has its ideological finks.


40 posted on 01/25/2021 3:15:23 AM PST by hardspunned (Former GOP globalist stooge.)
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