“I mean I’m not happy at all. I have not been happy about this whole situation. None of my family is either, but to say I’m surprised would be a lie,” Jackson Refitt told CNN’s Briana Keilar on “New Day” Tuesday in response to his father’s sentencing. “I mean, everything my dad did, he was his own person. And his actions have consequences. But I’m not happy at all.”
Guy Refitt, a recruiter for a right-wing militia known as the Three Percent, was sentenced to serve more than seven years in prison, the longest riot-related sentence to date.
He was convicted by a D.C. jury in March of five felonies — seeking to obstruct the certification of the 2020 presidential election in Congress, transporting weapons in D.C., carrying a gun on Capitol grounds, interfering with the Capitol Police , protecting Upper West Terrace and obstruction of justice by threatening his daughter and son, who had turned him in to the FBI.
“I mean, realistically, it’s not a matter of political opinion. What my father did is far from politics. This is completely derailed violence. Whether there was a political motive at this point is irrelevant. It’s more about what he’s doing and who he’s doing it for,” Jackson Refitt told Keillor.
His father, Reffitt claimed, was “used as a puppet” for Donald Trump, adding of the then-president: “It’s disgusting to see that someone with … money and social power can just get away with manipulating thousands of people just by whatever reason and there is no way out.” During the trial, Capitol Police officers testified about the fight with Guy Refitt outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and prosecutors called him the leader of the mob. He also recorded a video on Jan. 6, in which made threatening comments about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz contributed to this report.
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