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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

Guess dad cut off his allowance and increased his chores


41 posted on 01/25/2021 3:15:51 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What is missing is there is no word from Dad. We are only given little Jr’s account. . .and as I’ve experienced, the account of a family “situation” from the perspective of an 18 year old. . can be somewhat skewed.


42 posted on 01/25/2021 3:17:05 AM PST by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: Nateman

Nor will he.


43 posted on 01/25/2021 3:22:11 AM PST by sport
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To: JadeEmperor

I believe they just got two of them.


44 posted on 01/25/2021 3:26:47 AM PST by sport
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I agree. His father is going to get 20 years in prison.


45 posted on 01/25/2021 3:32:02 AM PST by sport
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To: fightin kentuckian

Is 10 minutes soon enough.


46 posted on 01/25/2021 3:37:59 AM PST by sport
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To: j.havenfarm

And you’ve done what to save the republic ?


47 posted on 01/25/2021 3:38:06 AM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: CaptainK
I doubt Junior has the intelligence to understand what earning a living entails. He is 18 years, legally an adult, and living at home mooching off his parents. Mama and daddy did a poor job raising him. he is exactly the type drone that Communists and Socialists Governments such as we are under now, enjoy. He is excrement by any name.
48 posted on 01/25/2021 3:49:22 AM PST by sport
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well...that’s going to make Thanksgiving awkward.


49 posted on 01/25/2021 3:52:39 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d turn in a family member if he were BLM/Antifa, etc., In a heartbeat. But they’re actually destructive. Quite different from a peaceful protester.


50 posted on 01/25/2021 3:58:36 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (They HAD to kill somebody for their plan to work. RIP Ashli.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good little Pavlik Morozov.
Give him an Order of Lenin.


51 posted on 01/25/2021 4:10:26 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
We only have Junior's word that he threatened them.

Believe in the Constitution, belong to a militia (required by the Founders), believe in racial equality, capitalism, pro life?

Right wing extremist!

Adhere to communism, a racial caste system, total government control, gulag or death for those with different beliefs, terrorism to enforce your beliefs?

You're a antifascist, social justice warrior!

52 posted on 01/25/2021 4:28:27 AM PST by Eagles6
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To: JD_UTDallas

Facing off in a civil war is undoubtedly more drastic, but it is also more honest than being a cowardly sneak who turns his own father in-the shame is that the cowardly sneak is proud of his action and proclaims that he’d do it again. He’s actually proud of being a cowardly sneak.


53 posted on 01/25/2021 4:32:27 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I second every word you typed. He’s a cowardly sneak, didn’t even face his father like a man, hold up for his own opinions, etc. jJust turned his dad in. Despicable, contemptible.


54 posted on 01/25/2021 4:36:12 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Bikkuri

Easy to picture the little punk being the “catcher”.


55 posted on 01/25/2021 4:37:15 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Nateman

A microcosm of how effectively the left has corrupted minds in this country. The young fool has no idea of the evil he has aided and abetted.
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Some here don’t get it either. It’s sad to go into threads and see posts already wanting to work with for and vote for GOP again we just have to “Weed out the Rinos” ...LOL

We’re so weak and doomed. Yea, though this is how the left from Stalin to Pol Pot got their boots on people’s neck. The left NEVER lets up because they’re power hungry psychopaths.


56 posted on 01/25/2021 4:38:33 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: EinNYC

he wanted his little social media fame like all these woke attention whores.

he’s disgusting.


57 posted on 01/25/2021 4:39:55 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Junior is a little scumbag who sided with the Deep State over his own flesh and blood. There’s no empathizing here. He’s a trash human, a rat in human form, who put his own father into jail.
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exactly


58 posted on 01/25/2021 4:41:43 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: CaptainK
"To: lee martell Wait till junior finds out how quickly the legal system will burn through his family’s finances."

That little informant will be crying into his generic "Wheeties" when it happens. I hope the parents cancel his mobile phone service first.

60 posted on 01/25/2021 4:44:33 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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