Former West Virginia Lawmaker Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Breach Announces Bid for Congress

On Friday, a former West Virginia lawmaker who was charged for his involvement at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, announced that he is running for Congress.

“But despite that uncertainty, my resolve never waned,” he said. “I knew I still had the support from the people in West Virginia and American patriots from all across this country.”

Evans also live-streamed himself protesting against Black Lives Matter and drag shows. Those videos were lost on Nov. 8, 2021, when Evans was terminated from all social media platforms, including Facebook. He has since created new accounts.

Evans accused Miller of representing “the values of the globalist uniparty” and claimed that she voted to pass the Biden administration’s $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, but Miller voted against the bill.

Katherine Robbins, communications director for Miller, told The Epoch Times by email that Miller “has been honored to serve in Congress these past 4 years, including voting against the trillion-dollar omnibus bill Democrats recently forced on the American people.”

Robbins said that as candidate recruitment chair, Miller has “ensured Republicans across the country could win tough races and take back the majority, placing a much-needed check on Biden’s disastrous administration.”

Evans further alleged in his video announcement that Miller already “had five years to leave her mark on Washington” and to “represent the conservatives in West Virginia.”

Of the 100 members in West Virginia’s House of Delegates, Republicans control 78 seats, a super-majority.

Evans described how he approached Miller at a luncheon in Wayne, West Virginia, just before the November general election. He said he asked her what was going to happen with the Jan. 6 Committee now that Republicans were going to take over the House.

“She said, ‘Nothing,’” Evans recalled, saying he “decided right there and then” he wanted to challenge her for her seat.

“I just can’t believe how the liberal media is still so focused and obsessed with this,” Evans said, adding that he thought the lifespan of a story in the media was generally two days. “For this to be a two-year news cycle and for them to continue using the dangerous propaganda—calling us terrorists and insurrectionists—is egregious and disgusting. There are people out there who believe those things. That’s the most hurtful thing. I love this country. People can disagree on whether or not they think the election was stolen and say I shouldn’t have been there and I was trespassing. Those things are fine. They can even call me a convicted felon. That’s fine. But to call me an insurrectionist and a terrorist against my own country?”

Evans said his heart breaks for the other people involved in Jan. 6, especially those who are still sitting in jail.

“While some have been sitting in jail for two years now, her journey has just begun,” Evans lamented.

Evans also wants to change the narrative about Jan. 6 participants.

Evans said the Jan. 6 Committee should remain open.

“Get some real conservatives in there and let’s go find the truth, and whatever the truth is, I’m fine with that,” Evans said, adding that he is amazed that “they want to lock these documents away for 50 years.”

“But the people who are supposed to be ’the bad actors,‘ the ’terrorists’ and the ’insurrectionists,‘ we’re the ones screaming, ’No, release it all for the entire world to see!' We want the truth out there, and I think that’s an important narrative that’s not being portrayed in the media right now. We want the truth. Why is the government trying to hide all of this stuff? That should raise questions for anybody who has an open mind about the situation. I want the truth. There are a lot of questions I don’t have answers to. Because, quite frankly, there’s still 1,400 hours of video footage we’ve not been allowed to see.”

“By far, one of the most shocking, hurtful, and disappointing things about this whole process has been how my government is attacking me and my credibility, basically telling me they don’t like me,” he said. “I remember sitting in prison thinking, ’this can’t be real.' Until then, I hadn’t had time to decompress and think about everything. I was too busy fighting for my freedom, fighting legal battles and worrying about my wife and my kids. I was trying to get things in order, to make it easier on my wife while I was gone. But when I was in solitary, it finally dawned on me. This was really happening. My own government was doing this to me and that was hard to swallow.”

Evans is also amazed at how the government is still pursuing people who were in Washington on Jan. 6, using everything at its disposal, including facial recognition software, cell phone records, and pleas on social media for people to turn in their neighbors, friends, and family members.

“It makes you realize we are living under more tyranny today than our Founding Fathers did when they broke away from Britain,” Evans posited, saying he believes “we are living under the most corrupt and powerfully tyrannical government in our history.”

“That’s why I decided to run,” Evans confessed. “I don’t think the average person understands how powerful and corrupt they are.”

He is also well aware of “the attacks” that will come against him and his family for his choice to run for Congress.

“I have to preserve what little freedom and liberty we have left, for my children and future grandchildren, and hopefully increase that liberty and freedom for them in Congress,” Evans attested. “Sitting on the sidelines doing nothing is not going to get us there.”