Jake Lang is known most for his Nazi salutes, anti-semitic campaigning, and being pardoned by Trump after violently assaulting the U.S. Capitol to overthrow democracy.
His rap sheet now extends to an incident where he traveled to Minnesota to attack and censor the speech of people there he disagrees with.
In a video Lang posted to X Thursday, Feb. 5, he is seen kicking over the [State Capitol] sculpture…. In the accompanying text, Lang wrote he was arrested. The incident took place around 2:30 p.m. that day. […] The Minnesota State Patrol states Lang is a resident of Lake Worth, Florida, which is consistent with paperwork Lang filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida.
The sculpture he destroyed was created by military veterans in a veteran-led anti-authoritarianism organization.
The fact that this January 6 insurrectionist traveled from his home in Florida to Minnesota specifically to physically attack installations and censor speech, rises to the level of domestic terrorism — not merely censorship but a pattern of assaults and political intimidation targeting the First Amendment rights that veterans fought to defend.
Weeks before this attack on combat veterans’ rights, Lang had threatened to burn a Quran on the steps of Minneapolis City Hall. In other words he escalated rapidly from protected extremist hate speech to hateful acts of criminal destruction of others’ protected speech. Similarly he had fraudulently claimed to be a patriot, while attacking the actual patriots.
Presumably his escalating self-promoted acts of obvious Nazism, enabled by the Trump pardon and JD Vance endorsements, are the new face of “GOP” campaigns for political office. An operational pipeline. This is exactly what pardoning violent insurrectionists was meant to produce: domestic terrorists who treat violent vandalism and Nazism as campaign strategy.
According to prosecutors, Lang, wearing a gas mask and wielding a baseball bat, struck officers whilst shouting taunts such as “This is our house, we paid for this f****** building.” […] Lang was arrested and spent four years in federal prison…[where] he continued political campaigning…. He said: “They don’t want the interviews happening so they’ll throw you in solitary and then what we do the second I get in the solitary is we have a call to action go out on like Gateway Pundit…thousands of people call and inundate the jail….” …the former January 6 arrestee said he was in touch with the president’s team, commenting: “We have a lot of great connections into Team Trump…people that have been his former attorneys, advisors, now people who are working inside his department of justice…it’s more just giving them information then they do with it what they want.”