Derek Evans is a former state representative from Missouri and is running for Congress in the upcoming primary election. He talks about how he got his start in politics and why he decided to run for re-election. He also talks about the events that happened on January 6th, 2020.
00:00:00.000Alright everybody, thank you so much for tuning in.
00:00:02.000It's been a very long day here in Missouri at the Mike Lindell election summit.
00:00:07.000It's a marathon, 12 hours long, and there's a lot of speakers.
00:00:11.000We've been listening to this great coverage.
00:00:13.000You don't really want to do a lot of interviews because so many amazing people just speaking on stage, but one of the individuals who I know and I've been in communication with over the last few months and just ran into in person is Derek Evans.
00:00:47.000Tell us about January 6th and what happened to you.
00:00:50.000Yeah, so leading up to January 6th, you know, I won my House seat.
00:00:54.000I was the first Republican to win my district in 98 years, won the landslide.
00:00:58.000And I was so excited, but then I started seeing the presidential election being stolen, not only from Trump, but the American people.
00:01:04.000And so my constituents, they reminded me, I was already planning to go, and they said, you're not only there for yourself, you're there representing us, being our voice.
00:01:10.000And so I was peaceful that day, non-violent, non-destructive.
00:01:46.000The day that Donald Trump got the plot for him.
00:01:48.000So I live-streamed the entire event on January 6th.
00:01:51.000So I live-streamed going into the building.
00:01:53.000I thought, worst case scenario was, at the time, I was going to get a $50 ticket, just like the people who pound on the doors during the capital hearings.
00:02:00.000So I was going to pay $50 to exercise my natural and God-given rights of free speech, but ultimately found myself facing $25.
00:03:00.000I mean, this is, once again, it's a Trump district.
00:03:03.000When the people hear our story and they're reminded I was the state rep who actually stood up and got arrested, we're getting support more and more every single day.
00:03:29.000So, it's just like the same community.
00:03:30.000Has there been any condemnation from Republicans or your opponents about you running as a J6er?
00:03:35.000Honestly, most of them do that in silence.
00:03:37.000And the reason why is I think that they're afraid to honestly come out and publicly be against me because they see so many of their own constituents who actually support me.
00:03:48.000They don't come out in public to support me.
00:03:50.000They're kind of remaining neutral because they're afraid to do anything.
00:03:54.000You were only one of two, there's only two people in this country who were representatives, or at least we know of, maybe there are more, you know?
00:04:02.000But two that we know of, representatives holding office who were arrested for their actions on J6, and the other guys out of New Mexico, the guy who founded, I forget his name...
00:04:46.000So then they filed a civil suit of insurrection, not criminally, civilly, Coy had no support from the Republican Party or anything, was forced to defend himself.
00:04:56.000They moved the trial out of his home county to a liberal district in New Mexico and actually removed him from office via the Insurrection Act of Civil Insurrection.
00:05:08.000And then it was upheld by appellate court because he missed a deadline of some sort because he had no way.
00:05:14.000So now we're hoping, he's got some legal representation now, we're hoping the Supreme Court will hear this case.
00:05:19.000But this is going to set the precedent for President Trump because if they can use the civil way of insurrection, of going after a employee, and the courts say that, then they can turn around and do the same thing to President Trump.
00:05:58.000And when we do the push polls, which is, you know, you're among people and say this is the former state house delegate member who was arrested for January 6th, we're actually leading by double digits in the polls when we do the push polls when they know that.
00:07:53.000The Republican Party is not going to be your friend, but I think the American people understand that the January Sixers are patriots, right?
00:08:00.000These are patriots, and President Trump has said publicly that he plans on giving all of them full pardons, every single one of them, so that's why we need to get President Trump back in office as well.
00:08:10.000I want to share something with you really quick.
00:08:13.000I've been a huge fan of yours for a long time, as many people who are in this movement have been, but coming out of prison, I hadn't really been on social media for a few years after January 6th, I was told by my attorney not to, you know, so I wasn't involved in anything.
00:08:28.000And I was in a Twitter space, so I'd just been out of prison a couple weeks.
00:08:32.000At this point, I still didn't really understand how the people felt about January 6th.
00:09:36.000Yeah, they're going to start seeing some of these establishment people be a little bit more friendly towards us, even though they don't want to be, but they're one of those things they're afraid not to be because President Trump's associated with it.
00:09:46.000And so I think it's going to be interesting to see it.
00:09:48.000But you were there before it was cool to support the January 6th president, so thank you.
00:09:52.000Yeah, well, I've always been in support of them, so I think that the real insurrection took place in November 2020 when they fill our elections.
00:10:03.000It's a day where we recognize the courage of patriots that stood up against the tyrannical insurrection of election theft in November 2020.
00:10:24.000So, a lot of really interesting people here.
00:10:26.000A lot of really interesting stories that you're not going to hear on the mainstream media.
00:10:31.000I want to thank Mike Lindell, of course, for inviting me to this conference.
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