Jake Lang is a former J6 prisoner who, after four years, was released from federal detention on January 21, compliments of a proclamation signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025. Lang is preparing a $50 billion lawsuit on behalf of more than 100 January 6 plaintiffs. Lang explains that many different agencies and individuals will be named in the lawsuit.
"Including Christopher Wray [Joe Biden's former FBI director], Merrick Garland [Biden's former U.S. attorney general], and Matthew Graves – the DC attorney general who perpetrated so much lawfare against us," he lists. "All these people will be individually named and the agencies will be named because unfortunately, Merrick Garland can't pay $50 billion out of his checking account to the J6ers."
Lang explains they intend to go after the nine members* of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
"They disparaged us, they defamed us, they made it so that our jury pool was tainted beyond abilities for us to defend ourselves. So, we will be addressing all of these things in the lawsuit. It's a massive, super-comprehensive lawsuit."
Vindication is the goal, according to Lang.
"The American people know the [2020] election was stolen. President Trump and his administration are going to be doing some extensive research into the 2020 fraud election and are going to further vindicate us," he argues. "We were there for righteous cause. We were there because we were disenfranchised – our vote was stolen, our voice was stolen from us. So we stood up to do something peacefully about it that's the right of we the people."
Lang has told The Washington Post that he is considering a run for the U.S. House to represent New York's 19th Congressional District, which flipped to Democratic Rep. Josh Riley in November. He is national chairman of the Federal Watchdog anti-lawfare group, which is representing the prisoners in the lawsuit.
* Democrats Bennie Thompson, Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Elaine Luria, Pete Aguilar, Zoe Lofgren, and Stephanie Murphy; and Republicans Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
