Hello, this is Court Watch with Alex Sawyer, and I’m excited to bring you the latest episode on my podcast, where I am joined by Jake Lang, a January 6 defendant who has spearheaded lawsuits over the historic day.
[SWOYER] Tell me a little bit about your situation and tell our listeners how you got involved in the legal aspect of the January 6 fight.
[LANG] God bless, it’s good to be home. It’s good to be free. For the audience that doesn’t know me, my name is Jake Lang. I’m a January 6th political prisoner that was pardoned by President Trump after four years and 6 days in the D.C. jail gulag. I never had a trial. I was held, out of those 1,467 days that I was held illegally as a political hostage, 900 of those days were in solitary confinement. And it’s good to be home, and I’m just so blessed to be on your show today.
[SWOYER] You talked to me off camera a little bit about what you did for the legal fight. Can you talk about why you thought that was necessary, raising funds, that sort of thing?
[LANG] We were between a rock and a hard place, being in the D.C. Federal District, all of the lawyers that were being appointed to us were rabid liberals. And they were trying to smooth talk January 6th defendants into blaming President Trump in the plea deal offers. And so every single plea deal that they tried to walk my brothers through had this clause in it, basically that dropped all the onus on President Trump. And me and my partners with the January 6th legal defense fund, we started realizing that we needed to get real patriot, hardcore freedom fighter attorneys in there to defend these amazing Americans that were being wrongfully incarcerated. And basically, we put together a massive movement, raised millions of dollars and got lawyers for over 50 January 6th defendants.
And it was one of the hardest things in my lifetime to be able to orchestrate this. I spent countless hours on the phone in my prison cell, negotiating with attorneys to try to get them to represent Jan Sixers for reasonable rates. As everybody knows, federal attorneys cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But we’re so blessed. We had so many people come in to help us at very reasonable rates, even many pro bono patriot attorneys. So that’s what got me introduced to the legal fight.
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