A son reported his dad for Jan 6. Can the family heal?
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
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Summary
Their dad is in prison for his actions on Jan. 6. Their brother was the one who turned him in. Their mom moved to D.C. to support “political prisoners” in the D.C. jail. Sarah and Peyton Reffitt are caught in the middle. Can this family reconcile?
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On Christmas Eve 2020, Guy Reffitt sent a text to his family group chat. He was furious about the outcome of the 2020 election — which he believed was stolen from former President Donald Trump. “Too many lines have been crossed,” he wrote. “Too many years this happened. We are about to rise up the way the Constitution was written.”
That’s when his son, Jackson Reffitt, went to his room and filed a tip to the FBI.
Roughly 15 percent of the more than 1,100 people charged for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021, were turned in by family members, friends or acquaintances. The Reffitts are one of those families, shattered by the insurrection and its aftermath. Now, they’re trying to put the pieces back together.
Today on “Post Reports,” listen to the Reffitts as they try to work through everything that’s happened in their family — and in the country — over the past few years.
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah Reffit was working as a waitress at a hooters in the suburbs of Dallas. |
| 0:07.6 | It's January 2021, a game had just wrapped, and somebody switched the TV above the bar |
| 0:13.4 | to CNN. |
| 0:14.9 | Sarah looks up, and there's Chris Cuomo, talking about her dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Guy Reffit has now been charged with unlawful entry at the U.S. Capitol and obstruction of |
| 0:24.8 | justice for threatening his own family. |
| 0:28.0 | One week before, Sarah's dad, Guy Reffit, had been arrested for participating in the |
| 0:33.0 | Capitol riot on January 6th. |
| 0:35.0 | It didn't take long for the FBI to find him. |
| 0:38.0 | And then, there on the screen was her 18-year-old brother, Jackson. |
| 0:42.0 | I do love him, and I do care for him, but that doesn't ignore everything else he said |
| 0:48.9 | and done. |
| 0:49.9 | The younger sister, Peyton, was working at another restaurant nearby when her phone started |
| 0:54.3 | buzzing. |
| 0:55.3 | It was a text. |
| 0:56.8 | Jackson's on CNN. |
| 0:58.7 | And it might be my fault for talking to authorities, but I don't want to think that he's an adult |
| 1:06.4 | and he made his own decisions. |
| 1:11.0 | Sarah and Peyton's brother was telling the world before he told them that he had turned |
| 1:16.2 | their father over to the FBI. |
| 1:19.6 | This is not your fault. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm talking to you because I'm impressed by what you did, more importantly why you |
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