How a Trump tweet prompted one man to join the assault on the US Capitol
Brandon Fellows has no regrets about his participation, calling Capitol police officers ‘super-cool’, and has plans to return
New York — Brandon Fellows had never attended a Trump rally before last week. He said he was motivated to drive to Washington after seeing a tweet from the president. “Big protest in DC on January 6,” President Donald Trump wrote on December 19. “Be there, will be wild!”
Fellows didn’t know about a planned march that would eventually overtake the US Capitol. He said he had simply come to see Trump give a speech. But within hours of watching Trump’s speech, Fellows had his feet propped up on a table in the office of a US senator, smoking a joint. He roamed the halls of the Capitol, heckled police officers and posted videos along the way on Snapchat...
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