More than two years after Elias Irizarry breached the U.S. Capitol with other Trump supporters, he wrote a letter to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan as he waited for her to determine his sentence.
“I want to make clear that I am not writing to make excuses or defend my actions,” he told Judge Chutkan, of Federal District Court in Washington.
“My participation in an event like January 6th has brought great shame upon myself, my family, and, unfortunately, my country.”Today, Mr. Irizarry, a recent graduate of the Citadel, the renowned South Carolina military college, is mounting a primary challenge to a Republican in the state’s House of Representatives.
His website recently noted his prosecution for engaging in “nonviolent activities” at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as proof that he has “always stood for the conservative movement.”“At every pivotal moment of the America First movement,” the website declared, “Elias has been there.”
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