told anyone that same day the son said yes when an fbi agent called and asked if he would meet with him to tell him what caused him to send in that tip about his dad to the fbi. the sonat that same day, the da that his dad threatened to kill him, met with an fbi agent, told him what he knew about his father s activities on january 6th. and when his dad had told his son and daught ber having a loaded gun with him during the capitol attack, it turns out the son had been recording that conversation and that day whenu he metbe with the fbi agent, he gave the record together fbi. . and so that kid s dad, that was the first man who was put on trial for his role in the january 6th attack. a man from wily, texas, guy reffitt, the attack on the capitol building was january, 2021, he was the first one put on trial, put on trial march 2021, charged with five felonies. armed trespassing, guilty.
0 , so his son was 18, his daughter is 16. and on christmas eve, 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the like a month and a haf after th christmas eve 2020, his 18-year-old son went online to the fbi website to tips.fbi.gov and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do some things violent, that his dad was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials, the son told the fbi when he submitted that online tip that he believed his plan, his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself he told the fbi his father was planning to quot that was christmas eve 2020. when that young man submitted that tip to0. the fbi. i didn t hear back initially. it took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building, then the fbi decided.s that maybe that tip deserved some follow-up. by the time the fbi got in touch with the son, the son s father had not only trav