{"id":149318,"date":"2025-08-31T14:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149239"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:12:07","slug":"brandon-strakas-damning-jan-6-story-i-shot-a-video-outside-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/brandon-strakas-damning-jan-6-story-i-shot-a-video-outside-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Straka\u2019s damning Jan. 6 story: \u2018I shot a video outside the building\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 31, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Straka, a self-described \u201cformer liberal\u201d who founded the #WalkAway campaign to encourage people to leave the Democrat Party, was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and recorded what he witnessed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149240 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Straka-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"234\" \/>Though he never entered the building or engaged in any kind of violence, the Biden Justice Department charged him and he wound up pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Straka was sentenced to three years of probation, a $5,000 fine, the maximum fine allowed, and an additional $500 for \u201cdamage done\u201d to the Capitol building by the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u201cI never entered the Capitol on January 6th. I didn\u2019t engage in any violence, vandalism, theft, or destruction. I didn&#8217;t even witness any, but I shot a video outside of the building,\u201d Straka said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:ugcPost:7367523558337552384?compact=1\" width=\"504\" height=\"399\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2025 Real World News Brandon Straka, a self-described \u201cformer liberal\u201d who founded the #WalkAway campaign to encourage people to leave the Democrat Party, was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and recorded what he witnessed. Though he never entered the building or engaged in any kind of violence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,16],"tags":[591],"class_list":["post-149318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s-politics","tag-brandon-strakas-damning-jan-6-story-i-shot-a-video-outside-the-building","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}