It's not enough to be kept incarcerated indefinitely for simply being present at the Capitol that day. Now, prisoners have to admit that Trump is "bad" and that the events that day were a "threat to democracy."
Treniss Evans, a "J6er," testified at a special live hearing last week led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) that those who are incarcerated are also going through re-education.
"May I share a couple of titles?" Evans asked. "These were re-education materials distributed to them about: 'Trump's big lie,' 'Trump's crimes before he called for the attack on our democracy,' 'Donald Trump: How he has attacked our democracy. Negligence, obstruction, rape, tax evasion.' These are actual lesson plans."
According to Evans, prisoners are given credit for taking these courses. But Sandy Rios, host of the Sandy Rios 24/7 podcast, said she knows that if prisoners don't take the courses or otherwise admit they were wrong, then they receive "draconian sentences."
"Never in an American court have I ever seen them insist on so-called 'criminals' or defendants to actually swear that they have changed their minds or that their thinking was wrong," she tells AFN.
These J6ers, she says, have to admit to the narrative that the Left has set.
"In many cases in these court rooms, people have had to admit, according to the Left, to judges that Trump did not win the election," she describes. "They have to state it and state it out loud in court or write out that he did not win the election in 2020 – that there was no election interference."
The podcast host also explains that many of them have had to take these re-education courses around everything that happened on January 6 – such as lessons on democracy.
Additional narrative, she explains, that they have to agree to includes that the riot was "an attempt to change the outcome of the election."
"And many people, because they were afraid, scared to death, actually did go through with this and sign statements that they were wrong, that Trump really did not win, that Joe Biden is the rightfully elected president of the United States," she adds.
She says not even in a criminal trial – for example, in a murder trial – is the defendant required to recant or admit guilt. "We've never, to my knowledge, in this country had this happen," Rios laments.
