Photo via Jenny Cudd, @Cleavon_MD/Twitter
January 8, 2021, 12:57 pm*
People across the world were stunned by what they saw unfold at the Capitol on Wednesday, mostly because of the attempted coup but also because the Trump supporters were filming and photographing their own crimes. One woman in particular, who has been identified as Jenny Cudd, went as far as livestreaming herself on Facebook confessing to her and her fellow rioters’ crimes.
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The FBI will have a lot of work to do, but at least it won’t be difficult work.
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“We didn’t vandalize anything but we did, as I say that, break down Nancy Pelosi’s office door and somebody stole her gavel and took a picture sitting in the chair flipping off the camera, and that was on Fox News,” she said, describing acts of vandalism as well as theft. “Patriots got down on the floor and were sitting in the House members’ and the Senators’ chairs.”
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But wait, there’s more. Cudd is a formal mayoral candidate from the city of Midland, Texas. She ran in 2019 and lost to Patrick Payton, gaining less than 16 percent of the vote, but soon she might not be eligible to run at all. According to local news, she had also recently participated in protests against pandemic-related mandates and shutdowns.
Mayor Payton was only willing to comment that the news of Cudd’s participation in the Capitol riot “saddens” him.
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Cudd has now deleted the full video from her Facebook page, but not before many people captured and reposted clips across social media. She denied doing anything wrong and had jumped on the false claim that anti-fascists swept through, broke through barriers, assaulted police and left before she arrived.
“Cudd said she then walked into the Capitol with a large group and took pictures inside the rotunda for about 15 minutes before leaving,” writes the Midland Reporter-Telegram. “She said she did not go onto the House or Senate floors or into any lawmakers’ offices.”
This statement seems like it will be unlikely to sit well with federal authorities, who have arrested over 82 of the Trump supporters, including others who were filmed or photographed in the act. They have promised to crack down on the rioters, though they have a long way to go to match the over 14,000 protesters arrested over the summer of 2020 for demanding justice for Black lives taken by police.
*First Published: January 8, 2021, 12:56 pm
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