Rebecca Lavrenz provided a photo to FBI agents and identified herself as the woman seen in ABC News live coverage of the Capitol riot, the DOJ said. (DOJ)
Former President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, wrote on TRUTH Social in the wake of the conviction that Lavrenz "has been unfairly targeted by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, and now faces up to 1 YEAR in prison for peacefully walking around the Capitol, and praying for our Failing Nation on January 6th!"
Sharing a link to where people can donate to support Lavrenz’s legal expenses, Trump said the grandmother and "small business owner" is now "one of Joe Biden’s J6 HOSTAGES!!!"
NEW MEXICO COUNTY COMMISSIONER WHO PARTICIPATED IN JAN 6 RIOT LOSES SUPREME COURT APPEAL
Rebecca Lavrenz seen inside the Capitol Rotunda. (Justice Department)
The Justice Department accused Lavrenz of spending just 10 minutes inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Court documents say the FBI conducted a "consensual interview" with Lavrenz at her home on April 6, 2021, when she allegedly admitted to agents that she had been in Washington, D.C., to participate in the "Stop the Steal" rally on the mall and followed the crowd to the U.S. Capitol building.
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Lavrenz observed people getting into "physical confrontations" with police as the crowd grew, but "when a man finally succeeded in pushing past a barrier and entering the U.S. Capitol, Lavrenz observed that none of the police officers chased him," according to an arrest affidavit, as reported by The Gazette. She followed the crowd streaming past the barriers and into the Capitol's main door on the east side. As she stated, and as video footage supports, she spent about 10 minutes inside, roaming from the East center entrance to the Rotunda and back, speaking briefly with a U.S. Capitol Police officer, and exiting through the same door she entered.
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
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