Jones has spread conspiracy theories before, most notably that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. He has retracted this claim.
In the days following the riot, Jones said on his website Infowars that he was invited by the White House on Jan. 3 to “lead the march” to the Capitol.
The Wall Street Journal later reported that Jones along with prominent GOP donor Julie Jenkins Fancelli, the heiress to the Publix Super Markets Inc. chain, played a key role in fundraising for the rally event on the Ellipse ahead of the riot.
Trump spoke at the rally on the National Mall, encouraging his supporters to march on the Capitol and demand that Congress halt the certification of the 2020 election results.
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Bozell was reportedly identified through the sweatshirt he was wearing in the Senate that showed the Christian high school, Hershey Christian Academy.
According to the complaint, a witness told the FBI, Bozell stopped being the girls’ basketball coach in March 2020, as the team could no longer practice, or play games, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
A statement from Hershey Christian Academy stated that Bozell was not a member of the HCA’s staff or its board of directors, he is not an employee, and he is not a representative of the Academy.
The school also shot down reports that said Bozell had worked as a girls basketball coach at the school, saying they did not have any athletic programs.
A New York man inadvertently got himself arrested after sending a selfie of himself at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot to his girlfriend’s brother, a special agent with the Secret Service.