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In the first Jan. 6 trial, a jury found Capitol riot defendant Guy Reffitt guilty

When Reffitt returned home to Texas, he bragged in text messages and on recorded Zoom meetings about leading the charge on Jan. 6. His then 18-year-old son, Jackson Reffitt, had liberal political views and was troubled by what his father had done, so he began secretly recording his father. Within days, Guy Reffitt became paranoid about being arrested. Jackson Reffitt testified at the trial that his father told him and his younger teenage sister, "If you turn me in, you're a traitor. And traitors get shot." Jackson Reffitt turned the recordings he made of his father to the FBI. Five days later, agents arrested Guy Reffitt.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085147532/in-the-first-jan-6-trial-a-jur...