husband and i went to d.c. on january 6th as husband and wife. we considered it an outing of a couple of days in d.c., just husband and wife i hate to say fun thing to do, but at that time we didn t anticipate there were going to be any riots or anything like that, so we just went to have the president speak one last time and like you said, a few days later, the s.w.a.t. team shows up and it s surreal, it s just absolutely surreal, this whole experience. i cannot believe i never thought in a million years that anything like this would happen to us. i can t even you can t even conceive of this and i still wake up some days and i think is this really happening, is this really happening? it does not seem real, and when he was taken away from me, when he didn t come home right away, i really thought he was going to be bonded out and he would be home and i knew okay, we re going to get this straightened out, there must be some misunderstanding but he was still there about two months l
government with no end in sight and what they are doing is they re driving forward you know the story about how the s.w.a.t. team came, traumatized sharon and i. they decimated our finances have you heard that before and right now where we are, although we are christians that we believe that god has us in the palm of his hand, things are not looking all that great. we are at the edge of losing our family farm, the same form that i grew up on where we are broadcasting from tonight. tucker: you think of all the people in congress who support what has happened to you. if you know, liz cheney ought to be ashamed, and hope she is watching this. this is caldwell, what did you think when armed men took her husband away and put them in solitary confinement for 45 days? i really didn t know what to think. i was so shocked and surprised when the s.w.a.t. team shows up at our house and you know, my
he s now in home detention awaiting trial. lieutenant commander thomas caldwell joins estimate with his wife sharon caldwell. thank you both very much for coming on tonight. thank you. thank you. tucker: very quickly the facts of your case. you didn t go inside thehe capital, he spent 49 days in solitary confinement in prison. tell us what they are charging you with exactly,he if you woul. well, it s really interesting, tucker, because they made me the poster boy. i was defendant number one in a conspiracy. they said i conspired to actually put together a military style attack on the capital. then i stormed into the capital and did all these terrible things. they even claimed i threatened our lawfully elected representatives in congress. total claptrap, but they sense that information all around the world across all the media platforms. interestingly enough, while ies was languishing in the prison in solitary confinement not knowing when i was going to get out sharon found us
tucker: you hear endlessly about january 6th. the qanon insurrection. but on most everything you hear about that day is general and florid, the overstatement overshadows everything. you rarely hear details about what actually happened to specific people. here s a story you should know. thomas caldwell was in washington that day, former lieutenant commander in the united states navy. a few days later and january 19th, a s.w.a.t. team with armored vehicles showed up at his home. the officers pointed rifles in his face and took him to jail. he spent 49 days in solitary confinement. what he went through is described in a fantastic new piece by julie kelly in american greatness. initially prosecutors accused caldwell of plotting an attack on the capital even though he never even went inside the capitol building on january 6th. he s now in home detention awaiting trial. lieutenant commander thomas caldwell joins estimate with his wife sharon caldwell. thank you both very much for coming on