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    'Better safe than sorry' — son explains turning in father over Jan. 6 attack

    Jackson Reffitt testified about why he notified the FBI and recorded his father making statements about the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021.
    by Carrie Johnson Mar 03, 2022 4 minutes

    A soft-spoken 19-year-old told jurors he felt uncomfortable after he decided to alert the FBI about "surreal and scary" text messages from his father in the weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

    Testifying in the first trial related to the insurrection, Jackson Reffitt said his father, Guy Reffitt, warned that he and others were about to "rise up," in a family text chain on Christmas Eve 2020.

    "What's about to happen will shock the world," Guy Reffitt typed to his family, only a couple of weeks before a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election's electoral votes.

    As the heated texts piled up, Jackson Reffitt performed an internet

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