The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Former Jan 6th Prisoner ｜ Interview with Edward Jacob Lang

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to an interview with Jake Lang. So this is actually the third time we've spoke to

00:00:05.720 each other. First time where I can actually see you while I'm speaking to you. So the first time

00:00:10.520 was all the way back in July of 2022 and then the second time was September of 2023. So now we're

00:00:18.000 doing the start of 2025. But it's really great to you know talk to you again. Certainly great to see

00:00:25.380 that you're free and I thought it'd be a good opportunity to go over your experience of Jan

00:00:30.320 6th, your experience in prison, as well as talking about how you've enjoyed your freedom and what's

00:00:35.040 next for the future. But I thought I may as well start out about your experiences of Jan 6th just

00:00:41.840 as a little bit of a summary for the people who haven't seen the previous parts. So you were

00:00:47.500 quite central to a lot of things that actually happened that day right. So I know you've made

00:00:53.540 a documentary about the whole thing. J6 Truth, I think it is, isn't it? On that website.

00:01:00.040 Yes, sir.

00:01:00.420 And that talks a lot about your perspective on things. But basically, you were there for two

00:01:07.320 important events on that day, I suppose. Both the near death of Philip Anderson, who you helped save,

00:01:14.800 if I'm right. So he was nearly crushed in the crowd after coming into contact with the Capitol

00:01:25.580 Police. Is that right?

00:01:27.680 Yeah, unfortunately, my brother Philip was, I mean, in such a life threatening situation where,

00:01:34.300 you know, he's written a court sworn affidavit saying that if I wasn't at the Capitol,

00:01:39.260 he would have been dead. And so, you know, God bless that he's still alive. And he's one of our

00:01:43.700 greatest fighters, too, in the J6 movement for truth and freedom. He's unashamed. And, you

00:01:49.520 know, I just let you know, really, how precious each human life is. Knowing that I had a hand

00:01:56.480 to do in saving him makes me, you know, not regret anything that I did that day on January

00:02:01.540 6th, 2021.

00:02:02.460 But on a somewhat, I suppose, darker note, you were also involved with Roseanne Boyland,

00:02:11.280 who I believe there's video footage of her being unconscious and being beaten in the head

00:02:17.820 by the Capitol Police while she's on the ground. And you helped try and drag her away to save

00:02:23.600 her from the police, right?

00:02:25.540 Yeah, I mean, that was such a precarious, heinous situation that the Capitol Police

00:02:33.880 were mercilessly, I mean, brutally advancing upon the unarmed crowd. There was this beautiful

00:02:41.840 young woman, Roseanne Boyland, that did not deserve to die whatsoever. They got caught up in what can

00:02:48.340 only be described as pure police brutality. And she was murdered by the Capitol Police. And I was

00:02:56.520 a witness to this. She died in my arms. I was trying to save her. And afterwards, you know,

00:03:02.460 the famous situation transpired with me, and the gas mask and the riot shield and the bat. And so,

00:03:09.680 you know, in America, where I'm from, the red, white and blue here, guys, you know, we pride

00:03:16.940 ourselves on never backing down to tyranny, never surrendering to evil. And so, you know,

00:03:24.820 me being a young man, which I'm almost 30 years old now, but I was 25 years old on January 6. I've

00:03:31.660 had four birthdays in the gulag. And, you know, as a young man, I couldn't run and turn the other way

00:03:38.640 and, you know, flee from what was happening. Because, like I said, people's lives are in danger. And,

00:03:45.760 you know, I was brought up by my father to never run from, you know, if somebody needs my help from

00:03:51.220 somebody who's helpless.

00:03:53.220 So, yeah, not only did you play an essential role in, you know, doing your best to help these two

00:03:59.720 people, but at one point, you were also a person facing the most charges. And so, to go from that

00:04:08.620 hanging over your head to now being completely free, must be quite something. But let's not get

00:04:13.000 ahead of ourselves here. Because, of course, you spent a lot of time in prison, didn't you?

00:04:19.140 And in fact, I think many of you were held in solitary confinement for a very long time.

00:04:24.460 You never had a trial. I know towards the end, you were deliberately trying to delay it,

00:04:29.780 or your legal team was, should I say. At least that's what I've read. And,

00:04:35.100 yeah, tell me a little bit about your experiences. I know some politicians did come and visit you.

00:04:40.740 I think Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of the ones you told me about.

00:04:44.400 Yep.

00:04:46.600 So, you know, being incarcerated for 1,467 days, you know, no walk in the park, but especially

00:04:54.380 during Biden's reign of terror, the four years that we were incarcerated during, I mean,

00:05:01.100 literally, I was incarcerated four days before Joe Biden took office. And then the entire presidency,

00:05:07.740 right up until Donald Trump was pardoned us on his first day in office, God bless America.

00:05:14.440 Undeniable political prisoner, right?

00:05:18.060 Yeah, I mean, really, I mean, just pure political imprisonment. I mean,

00:05:21.360 the entire, you know, tenure of Biden, we were incarcerated, you know, moved from prison to

00:05:29.060 prison. I spent time in 17 different facilities. They moved me time and time again. And this may,

00:05:36.840 this may hurt your audience's ears to hear, but I spent over 900 days of solitary confinement, Josh.

00:05:43.260 Which is awful, especially for someone who, you know, is not dangerous, and you'd not even faced

00:05:51.960 a trial. I'm not, I'm not sure about the legality of that in the American system that you can be put

00:05:57.180 in solitary confinement for such a long time without even being charged of anything. Of course,

00:06:03.220 the Democrats had to sell the lie that it was an insurrection, which anyone who actually takes a

00:06:09.100 proper look at what happened, all of the evidence knows that the most armed population on planet

00:06:16.260 Earth doesn't go to the Capitol building unarmed if they're carrying out a revolution.

00:06:22.860 It's true. I mean, you know, logic defeats, you know, 90% of the insane, wacko, liberal left's 0.91

00:06:31.580 arguments about January 6th, about our intentions, and, you know, all the different lies that the

00:06:38.720 January 6th select committee, there's actually an act of Congress, they made a committee to

00:06:43.920 investigate January 6th, which was a biased, one-sided, weaponized committee to show. Really,

00:06:51.120 it actually just showed, it showed more about them than it did about us, as far as the lengths they're

00:06:56.360 willing to go, the Democrat establishment here in Washington, D.C., the lengths that they're willing

00:07:03.600 to go to schmear and to profane and lie about Donald Trump and his supporters was truly staggering. And so

00:07:13.360 we overcame the lies of the J6 select committee, we overcame the lies of the mainstream news media,

00:07:20.640 and, you know, now we're living, breathing free one. And that's the power of politics, really. I mean,

00:07:27.840 all glory be to God, my Father in Heaven, who answered my prayers. But, you know, people would be,

00:07:34.000 you know, absolutely insane not to acknowledge the fact that politics had in saving my life. I mean,

00:07:43.840 I was a dead and gone man, but look at the power of, you know, the political movement of Make America

00:07:50.320 Great Again. It's shifted, and I spent, you know, they've wanted me for 20 years, and I'm a living,

00:07:56.000 three man now, driving around in sunny Florida. It's great to see it, isn't it? And you've emerged

00:08:02.000 into a world with the sort of Trump order, which is far, far better than anyone could have really

00:08:08.400 hoped for. I mean, people had their hopes with Trump, but he's done a very good job, hasn't he, so far?

00:08:13.680 Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, we're astounded with the leadership. We haven't seen this type of leadership

00:08:18.960 in Washington, D.C. in decades and decades. I mean, maybe since the Reagan era. Even Trump's first

00:08:25.920 term, you know, really pales in comparison to just the amount of stark, America-first,

00:08:35.120 conservative-based leadership we're seeing right now. His team he has around him is executing at a

00:08:42.800 breakneck speed, his policies, and his policies are reflecting the will of the American people for

00:08:48.480 the first time in a long time. It's lovely to see it, particularly from this side of the Atlantic,

00:08:54.640 and one thing I would like to touch on is your treatment whilst you were in prison, because of

00:09:01.200 course, I know last time I spoke to you, you said that you were sort of housed with other Jan 6 prisoners,

00:09:10.320 and that gave you a certain sense of community, but I imagine if you've been moved around 17 times,

00:09:15.200 that that didn't remain intact, did it? As well as the fact, of course, that you're prevented from

00:09:21.040 seeing loved ones, you're kept in solitary confinement. Is anything coming of that, of your treatment,

00:09:27.360 or are you just happy to be free now? We're very happy to be free. God has opened up a blessing

00:09:32.960 from heaven and poured out his spirit on us. But accountability is really one of our main

00:09:42.960 focuses, being former political prisoners now. We feel a calling from God in order to right the

00:09:49.280 wrongs that have happened to us, and really put forth change in the weaponized Department of Justice,

00:09:57.280 and in these other branches that colluded together, the FBI, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Bureau of

00:10:04.240 Prisons, the U.S. Marshals, all these different agencies that colluded in order to destroy us all need

00:10:13.600 reform. They all need a clearing of the house from all of the politicized hateful behavior that they

00:10:22.880 were displaying during the Biden era. And so actually, here's the sweets. Your viewers are

00:10:29.040 going to love this. I'll tell a quick story. Last time I was in court about five, six weeks ago,

00:10:35.600 when I was still incarcerated, me and my prosecutor were arguing about my court date and about the

00:10:42.080 possibility of me being pardoned. By the time my next court date, my trial was going to happen,

00:10:48.080 actually, February 3rd. And so she was, you know, making a smart-aleck comment to the judge saying,

00:10:55.520 anything could happen. You could get pardoned. It could be simultaneously having a hurricane and

00:11:03.040 a tornado outside the courtroom at this very moment. But, you know, we're not going to speculate what

00:11:08.160 could be happening because we're in a windowless courtroom. And so, though it may be having a hurricane

00:11:13.680 and tornado outside at this very moment, we're not going to speculate about it. And so she said that

00:11:18.720 she thought she was very clever. So I stood up and I told her and in front of the whole judge and

00:11:24.720 everybody, I said, Ms. Rockland, which is my prosecutor, George Soros prosecutor's name, I said,

00:11:30.240 there is a simultaneous hurricane and tornado happening outside the courtroom right now.

00:11:36.800 In fact, and his name is Donald Trump. And by the time I go to trial, February 3rd,

00:11:43.360 you're not going to be working for the Department of Justice any longer. And lo and behold,

00:11:49.120 by God's grace, she was fired just yesterday. And so right before I was right before I would have

00:11:57.200 gone to trial. And so we're seeing a changing of the guards. We're seeing other old prosecutors be fired

00:12:03.920 away. In fact, all the FBI agents as well, that raided our homes, that invaded our privacy,

00:12:11.200 that, you know, were part of this weaponized system, and they blindly followed their orders,

00:12:16.480 unconstitutional, illegal orders. They're also all been fired. So we're seeing sweet vindication

00:12:22.720 and justification. Just 13 days ago, I was inside a prison cell. And now all of my enemies are being

00:12:29.360 fired. And I'm free. You know, it's a, it's a beautiful thing.

00:12:34.960 So, obviously, things couldn't really be going any better. How have you been enjoying your time

00:12:41.200 since you've been out of prison?

00:12:44.960 I was on a deep sea fishing trip. If you guys can see, I got a little bit of a sun tan

00:12:49.200 going on. I'm a little red here. I went deep sea fishing in Key West, Florida. And, you know,

00:12:59.600 we haven't just been all play, you know, being with my family and getting a little bit of rest

00:13:04.400 and recovery has been vital for my mental and spiritual health. But we've also been nose to

00:13:09.680 the grindstone because we're launching a new political campaign here for national office in

00:13:14.960 in the state of Florida for the U.S. Senate seat. So me and my team, we have come together with some

00:13:21.600 great political minds. And they think that this is kind of like our little mini Nelson Mandela moment

00:13:28.160 here in America.

00:13:31.520 Well, I really hope that it goes well, because from when I spoke to you, you're very articulate. And I

00:13:39.680 was quite surprised I expected talking to someone who's been convicted, I didn't expect you to

00:13:44.960 have answers which rival many professional politicians in terms of polish, not saying that,

00:13:50.560 you know, you're part of that ilk, by the way. But yes, what are you hoping to get all of that sort of

00:13:59.360 sorted? And because, of course, this is Marco Rubio's old seat, isn't it?

00:14:05.600 Yeah, so now he's Secretary of State, he'll be dealing with, you know, the PM over there in Great

00:14:11.920 Britain and, you know, a lot of national issues stemming outside of just Floridian politics. But

00:14:19.440 for your listeners and the great patriots of Britain, everybody knows here in America that

00:14:24.320 Florida is kind of like the marquee state of MAGA because Donald Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago,

00:14:30.560 is right here. It's like 15 minutes from where I live. And, you know, we have the boat parades. And so

00:14:36.400 we're really blessed here in the state of Florida to have this culture where American revival and,

00:14:44.000 you know, the resurgence of pride in our country and our way of life here that has been lost for

00:14:50.800 many decades is really resurging here. And so for me to be a candidate in this great state and kind

00:14:57.920 of bear the torch of the MAGA movement and, you know, Donald Trump liberated us. And now we're

00:15:03.440 moving forward with the message. This time when we come back to the Capitol, you know, we're not

00:15:09.120 coming as insurgents or, you know, rebel rousers, but we're coming actually as the elected officials

00:15:16.400 who are going here to make real positive lifelong change in the system.

00:15:20.720 So what the Democrats have effectively done is create a group of people that are pretty dedicated

00:15:28.640 towards preventing that same thing happening again, right? Yourself is the perfect example. And in many

00:15:35.440 ways they unwittingly created a number of martyrs because I don't know whether you're even able to

00:15:40.800 see your family while you're in prison particularly often, were you?

00:15:43.520 Yeah. I mean, it was insanity. The first 18 months I was incarcerated, they had COVID restrictions,

00:15:50.080 you know? And so they tortured us under the auspician that they were trying to protect us

00:15:55.920 from COVID. We did, you know, 23 hours a day inside a cell for a year. That solitary confinement,

00:16:04.160 I did it, like I said to your listeners, over 900 days of solitary, you know, broken up in six months

00:16:10.160 here, three months there, two months here, all for doing interviews. In fact, I think even one time

00:16:16.240 that we did an interview in the direct aftermath, I was taken out of my, you know, cell and general

00:16:22.720 population and thrown into solitary confinement for speaking out on, you know, this political persecution

00:16:32.480 that I had undergone.

00:16:33.760 Well, I'm sorry for our part in that, I suppose. Had I known you'd be thrown into solitary confinement,

00:16:40.400 I might have suggested maybe it wasn't such a good idea. But I suppose the idea is that getting the

00:16:45.760 word out is the most important thing, right?

00:16:48.960 Yeah. I mean, when you're in a situation like that, you know, you realize that the plane of warfare,

00:16:53.760 the theater that you're currently battling in is unorthodox. And so the ability to get information

00:17:00.240 out to the American people to the people of the world is paramount. And so I sacrificed everything

00:17:06.640 many times. Even my own body, I had to do one time a 12 day hunger strike, and refuse to eat,

00:17:14.080 because they had taken all other means of communication from me to reach out to the American

00:17:19.280 people. And so I had to physically starve myself in order to voice my opinion, because,

00:17:26.000 you know, you don't want to hurt anybody, right? You don't want to do anything drastic

00:17:31.440 as far as, you know, something illegal like attacking a prison guard or another inmate

00:17:36.640 or something of that nature. And so the last voice that you're afforded as a prisoner

00:17:41.920 who has no other means of messaging is to hunger strike. And that's, you know, historically,

00:17:47.440 you know, that is how political prisoners speak out and protest. And so we undergone many

00:17:56.960 protests of the hunger strikes. And so one time, it took, you know, almost two weeks for our opinion

00:18:05.040 to be heard. And actually, at the end of that hunger strike, Ms. Venn, the Supreme Court,

00:18:11.120 the highest court of the land here in America, had ruled on one of the January 6 cases in our favour,

00:18:19.280 my case. And so I took that as a sign from heaven that I didn't need to continue hunger striking,

00:18:26.240 that God was answering our prayers, even in the midst of the horrible battle.

00:18:30.240 I find it very difficult to imagine how it must have felt to go through what amounts to the best part of

00:18:40.080 five years, most of it in solitary confinement. And throughout the whole thing, whenever I spoke

00:18:46.560 to you, you were very optimistic. I didn't detect a shred of doubt in your mind. And I remember going

00:18:55.120 away after the second time I spoke to you thinking, oh, I really hope he's right. Because, you know,

00:19:02.080 it's one of those things where if you don't get pardoned, that optimism, that hope can become

00:19:09.520 very heavy if it doesn't come through. And I suppose what I wanted to ask is, how did you stay so

00:19:17.600 positive and optimistic? Because you were proven right, obviously, you were pardoned on day one.

00:19:21.600 But that's quite a feat, isn't it?

00:19:28.080 Yeah, you know, our faith, my faith that I've had in God, and many other January Sixers are devout

00:19:36.320 men of godly, godly character. You know, I'm surrounded personally, as being one of the youngest

00:19:44.080 Jan Sixers, with such a great cloud of witnesses, as the Bible call them, faithful men,

00:19:50.000 pastors. I was incarcerated with pastors, Korean beret, army, you know, special operators. I'm

00:19:58.080 talking the toughest men of the world, army rangers, US Marines. That's what the majority of

00:20:04.480 the men I was incarcerated with, men of service, men of godly character. And so, you know, they rubbed

00:20:10.400 off on me a lot. And my faith that I had, my underlying faith in Jesus Christ, being a God who still is

00:20:16.480 alive and who answers prayers, and who will never forsake those who call upon his name, kept me alive

00:20:23.600 and going 1,467 nights of prayer, of crying out of heartbrokenness. You know, the Bible teaches us that

00:20:32.400 true faith is, you know, is one that has a broken heart before God and is really in a submission to 0.83

00:20:38.560 him and relying solely upon him. And, you know, for many years, I knew that God was orchestrating

00:20:46.640 in the background of American politics, of my life, of the world in general, a movement in order to

00:20:54.800 liberate me. And so, you know, I'm gonna tear up and get emotional here because that's the God that I

00:21:01.520 know and love will change the whole world, just to just to save one of us. And so he did, he changed

00:21:09.520 the entire political landscape of the world. Look at Israel, they're giving up their hostages, you know,

00:21:16.960 everybody, Canadian, Canada, Mexico, everything, the world is changing right before our eyes all,

00:21:24.640 you know, paying homage to the Trumpian, you know, era here. And at the heart of that was

00:21:32.000 the American people voting for my freedom. And so, you know, glory to God, I'm a living man that

00:21:38.640 is here to testify that prayers work. And it's true. The things that we read in the Bible about Moses,

00:21:46.880 you know, delivering the Jewish people out of out of bondage and slavery through the Red Sea,

00:21:51.920 that great scene. We have our own modern-day biblical deliverance of God's people, a vast

00:22:00.080 majority of Christians who have been let out of bondage of the, you know, woke, deep state, liberal,

00:22:07.920 Marxist, communist regime that was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as vice president. And so,

00:22:16.000 glory to God in the highest, it is amazing to be free.

00:22:18.880 I'm very pleased that you are as well. And it's a real testament to the quality of the people

00:22:26.480 that support Trump when a cross-section of them are former people in the services and religious men.

00:22:35.600 And this is a bit of a lowbrow comparison here. But if you remember the case of Carl Rittenhouse,

00:22:42.320 when he was attacked by a crowd of people, he shot two people, one happened to be a wife beater, 0.57

00:22:49.520 another one was a child molester. You sort of get a picture of the kind of characters of both camps,

00:22:55.520 don't you, a little bit there? When you get a cross-section of the MAGA movement and the Democrats.

00:23:01.040 Yeah. And what was your experience interacting with the other people? Because obviously,

00:23:08.640 they had an influence upon you. And I imagine you're quite happy that they're all three as well.

00:23:15.600 And you planning to stay in contact with some of them? Did you make friends while you're in there?

00:23:20.480 Yeah, we're talking about we forged a bond, me and my brothers. It transcends normal friendship in

00:23:32.400 many ways. God had supplied me a whole new family when I was incarcerated, men that I had done

00:23:39.120 Christmases and holidays with behind bars and joined together in prayer, in long nights of

00:23:46.320 contemplation of our future. And so, you know, the January 6th community, as we call it,

00:23:56.160 is a community of broken families, of families that have suffered together, have, you know,

00:24:01.360 wives that have lost everything, their homes and, you know, mortgaged off and sold to the bank. 0.53

00:24:08.000 You know, family generational businesses have gone under. And so, but we rallied around one another.

00:24:14.560 And so, you know, I started many organizations as, you know, your listeners may know and heard of

00:24:19.920 the documentaries, the podcasts, the fundraisers. And so, you know, we, we, we, we organized, we,

00:24:27.280 our community didn't just whine and complain and, you know, oh, poor us and the Democrats are so evil.

00:24:34.720 We didn't just use our time complaining, but we mounted up an offense of, you know, media and fundraising

00:24:43.200 and community advocacy in order to really orchestrate the political happenings that you see around us right now

00:24:54.560 are directly correlated to the years of speaking out and the years of shaping and reshaping the truthful narrative

00:25:04.240 that January 6th was a orchestrated setup. The FBI had three dozen field agents there doing all kinds of nefarious things

00:25:14.000 and helping instigate and helping perpetuate the violence there that day. And also the Capitol Police violence itself,

00:25:23.200 you know, making sure that that narrative of that we were not the aggressors, that they were aggressively,

00:25:29.120 you know, horribly hurting us and attacking us and brutalizing us. So those two narratives that the fed

00:25:37.440 surrection, as we call it, the federal involvement in the happenings of January 6th and the police brutality,

00:25:45.600 those two narratives did not exist the day after January 6th, that at the day and the months and the weeks

00:25:53.600 and almost the years after January 6th, we were the bad guys, we were the insurrectionists, the violent domestic terrorists.

00:26:03.120 And, you know, we had to go to war as a community to regain our integrity against the lies of the Congress,

00:26:12.560 the January 6th Select Committee and Liz Cheney and some of the horrible people that Adam Schiff and the horrible people that slandered us. 0.74

00:26:22.480 We had to go to war as a broken community of families. And so it was epic. It was a great, it was a great battle. We fought, we won.

00:26:30.480 And I'm very, very pleased that you did. And one thing I am curious to see what you think is,

00:26:37.520 what has Trump got left to do to make this, this problem right, I suppose? Because obviously he's pardoned you. That's great. That's wonderful.

00:26:46.000 But the people implicated in it, as in the people who imprisoned you and tried to make out as if it was some sort of armed revolution,

00:26:58.000 they're still walking about and free. Do you feel like something should be done to hold these people accountable at the very least?

00:27:06.000 Yeah, so accountability is huge. You know, I don't have a heart of bitterness or vengeance from my captors and, you know, the prosecutors and people.

00:27:14.000 It's not that I'm just like seeking blind revenge or anything of that nature, but it's very important right now in American history that we set a precedent.

00:27:22.000 Um, so that future, uh, government officials and people that are involved in the whole entire deep state apparatus,

00:27:30.000 understand that, um, crimes against me, the people, the American people that have been perpetuated.

00:27:37.000 Um, and they tried to make it a fabric of American society, as far as these are the values that if you speak out against that,

00:27:46.000 we will incarcerate you for it was, you know, the main message, right. And like, you know, in China, 0.56

00:27:51.000 China, it's the same exact thing. They, they, they, they strike fear into the heart of the people there by incarcerating those who speak out of conscientious objections about political and societal issues. 0.98

00:28:04.000 And so they tried to enforce the same fear tactics here in America, but, um, you know, the, the ultimate test of our, um, amazing, uh, Republic,

00:28:18.000 our constitution or Republic had win now. And I mean, it took the highest, you know, land, the highest office in the land, the president himself to write the wrongs that our judicial system, um, didn't, but you know, our, our main goal is accountability and reformation to reform, um, the criminal justice system here in America, because you guys know, being in England, um, the, the stark difference between.

00:28:45.000 I mean, the way that prisoners are treated over there, you know, we've seen videos of Tommy Robinson, even him being a political prisoner, he has, you know, the cup of tea in the morning and, you know, the, the whole entire, you know, the, the, the humane treatment of, of human beings.

00:29:00.840 It's not perfect, but it's definitely not 900 days of solitary confinement. So there's a lot of accountability and reformation. Um, and just the, in general driving out of the deep state career bureaucratic politician era in the Republicans, you know, we call them rhinos here in America, Republican in name only.

00:29:24.660 Those are the old, you know, uh, George W. Bush, um, fake Republicans that, you know, the MAGA movement has taken up a crusade against to drive them out.

00:29:37.300 And so all of these things, you know, being a liberated January six or running for political office and understanding the way that the, uh, the, the political winds have shifted in America here, um, towards this ultra populism, ultra, uh, freedom oriented, real small government, um, pro, uh, individual liberties, uh, government.

00:30:03.300 That is now being formed around Trump and around future leaders, um, is, is, is really a blessing to be a part of that.

00:30:10.120 And so, you know, we're coming for accountability and that's going to be the, one of the main rallying prize of my campaign.

00:30:16.420 Um, is there any way in which people who are watching can support your campaign if they want to, is that, um, set up yet or is that in the works?

00:30:24.620 Yeah. So by this weekend, we're going to have the official, um, you know, fundraising campaign website set up.

00:30:31.420 So you guys are actually getting a sneak kind of preview because officially in American politics, you have to declare.

00:30:36.860 And then once you declare, you can start a fundraising.

00:30:40.720 But as far as fundraising goes, we're actually still in the midst of a crisis of fundraising for the January six hostages that are newly released.

00:30:51.300 Um, many of them have been, you know, completely financially devastated by January six, you know, um, their, their life savings.

00:31:01.280 Wiped out, trying to afford lawyers, uh, cars repossessed, a lot of horror stories, a lot of, you know, families having to move out of homes and in with, you know, other family members and things of that nature.

00:31:13.700 Um, generational businesses wiped out, disappeared.

00:31:17.900 You know, people that own like a flooring or a roofing or electrician company passed down from, you know, father to son.

00:31:24.320 And, you know, a lot of those, uh, businesses are, are gone now.

00:31:28.080 And so anyway, what we've done is we started the January six life rebuilding project.

00:31:33.560 And so this project is just to help my guys get their feet back underneath them.

00:31:38.120 First month's rent, a cell phone, a pair of sneakers, stuff like that.

00:31:42.080 You know, things that you need when you just emerge out of prison.

00:31:44.560 And I, I just got my driver's license a couple of days ago, you know, um, we're, we're like kind of like newborn infants driven out into the real world again.

00:31:54.560 Um, and so if you guys want to support the J and sixers and what we're doing to help them get reestablished, please go to J six rebuild.com.

00:32:04.700 Um, that's the letter J and the number six rebuild.com J six rebuild.com.

00:32:09.700 And Josh, I have to also tell you, um, one of my current political prisoners, brothers of mine, he's a Jan sixer. 0.99

00:32:16.680 Um, there's about eight or nine of them still left behind bars from charges stemming to and related to January six.

00:32:25.960 Like for example, one of my guys is a 17 year, um, green beret, uh, special operator, like, you know, a world class, you know, I'm talking very dangerous, you know, but I'm not talking about dangerous to the public, but just one of those guys that, you know, um, has been trained to, to, you know, to be an absolute natural born, uh, a killer, God forbid.

00:32:50.840 But anyway, when they raided his home, uh, the FBI, they found a grenade, you know, I mean, the guys, the guys, 17 year green beret, I would, I would be, it would be odd if he didn't have a grenade or two lying around his house.

00:33:03.940 But anyway, they found it.

00:33:05.260 I thought it's America.

00:33:06.220 Why can't he have a grenade?

00:33:07.600 I mean, come on.

00:33:08.220 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:10.060 And so they're charging him with a weapons charge stemming from January six.

00:33:14.340 And so the pardon didn't technically cover Jeremy Brown.

00:33:17.540 And my friend, Edward Kelly, who's also a U S Marine got another charge.

00:33:22.760 And I have to speak about him today because I promised him I would, he called me for prison as I was out on the back of the boat fishing, you know, I was taking calls from prison still.

00:33:32.020 And I wasn't able to really enjoy my time, you know, being liberated and surrounded with my family and the sunset and everything, because I'm still getting calls from my political prisoners that are still fighting for their freedom.

00:33:45.320 And so big shout out to my brother, Edward, he says that the Lotus Eaters podcast was his only real source of news for years.

00:33:55.680 And while I was incarcerated and he was a free man waiting his trial, he heard me on the Lotus Eaters.

00:34:02.120 And when we were connected in prison, he came up to me, he's like, are you Jake Lang that was on the Lotus Eaters?

00:34:08.300 I said, yeah, that's me, brother. And so, you know, we still have more of a fight here left for Edward Kelly and Jeremy Brown and a small handful of guys that are still battling weaponized, politicized charges from the deep state DOJ.

00:34:26.040 And so we're working on securing the release imminently.

00:34:28.900 Well, I mean, what is eight people?

00:34:33.340 I feel like with the collective effort of the American right, British right.

00:34:39.140 I mean, especially as he's a Lotus Eaters fan, you know, we've got to do everything we can now.

00:34:44.440 No, of course not. These people don't deserve to be there and they're there for political reasons.

00:34:49.060 And I think it's very good that you've spent your time, you've not even spent two weeks out of prison yet and you're spending it helping those other people still there.

00:34:59.620 And I think that's a testament to your character. And I wish you all the best and I'll do what I can to help if I can.

00:35:06.660 And I suppose the final thing I wanted to touch on is something that I think lots of people will be interested in.

00:35:14.700 What are you most excited to do with your freedom? Obviously, you've seen your family and that always has to come first.

00:35:20.600 You've been fishing. But what have you missed out and about in the world that you're excited to get back to?

00:35:27.740 You know, society's changed a lot since COVID. The years have come and gone and I've noticed that.

00:35:35.000 And so I'm really excited just to continue to, you know, try to influence the people here in America to remind them that they don't have to live in that fear that we were so browbeaten for it during COVID.

00:35:51.400 And then during the arrest of January, it was like, you know, God forbid I ever compare.

00:35:57.120 I'm Jewish myself. You know, I believe in the Lord Jesus, but I'm Jewish.

00:36:01.360 God forbid we ever compare to, you know, the Nazis and how they installed that fear to the Jewish people.

00:36:08.220 But there wasn't in America a small feeling where if you were a Trump supporter, if you were a conservative, that you were being watched on social media and you were just one post away from the FBI knocking on your door and dragging you to the gulag.

00:36:24.580 And so that communist fear is still prevalent here in America.

00:36:29.340 You know, there's a healing process.

00:36:31.340 And so we have a national church tour that we're organizing, the Jan Sixers.

00:36:37.260 So we're going from state to state, city to city, you know, going from local churches and high schools to talk to the children and, you know, talking about our faithfulness and really God's faithfulness during the years of incarceration.

00:36:52.000 And, you know, the principles we stood for, why we did what we did.

00:36:56.380 And so I think that one of the biggest things I'm looking forward to is continuing to lead the narrative to national healing and, you know, restoring the trust that American people once had in our institutions.

00:37:11.480 The criminal justice system here in America used to be premier.

00:37:14.640 You know, people used to put their faith in the blind, you know, the blind lady justice that if you were black or white or, you know, poor or rich or whatever it may be in America, you had a fair shot of justice.

00:37:31.640 But that was eroded. That trust in the justice system was almost completely destroyed in the FBI, almost completely destroyed.

00:37:40.280 So helping restore sacred trust in our foundational institutions is something that means I believe is going to further prevent any type of extremist behavior here in America.

00:37:54.140 Because people are worried and they should be because when you have your vote stolen from you and you're facing communist tyranny, looking straight down at the barrel at you like we were for the Biden regime years, you know, that they wouldn't normally do because they're pushed to great lengths.

00:38:11.620 And so we want to restore, you know, the beautiful sacred rule of law and that trust that American people should be able to have in their their institutions here.

00:38:24.940 So that's something that's big to me. And that's one of the things that's going to be rooted deeply in my campaign, restoring trust, restoring America and making people feel at home in America again.

00:38:36.800 And not like their government is some adversarial regime, hunting them down.

00:38:44.400 That is very inspirational. And I'd like to thank you very much for your free time.

00:38:49.760 I know that you've not had much of it over the years. And so I really do appreciate you spending some of that time talking to us.

00:38:57.800 And I wish you all of the best for your campaign.

00:39:00.760 I imagine that people will be able to find you on social media at some point.

00:39:06.800 I don't know whether you've got that sorted out yet.

00:39:09.480 I'm still banned, Josh, permanently from Instagram and Facebook.

00:39:15.140 They have some type of facial recognition.

00:39:17.660 I started a new account. I started a new account five, six days ago, immediate ban, you know, trying to appeal to them.

00:39:26.320 They keep on banning me. This is like my fourth or fifth Instagram account that's banned.

00:39:31.140 So if you guys want to follow me, you have to go to Elon Musk's Liberated X, the Twitter.

00:39:37.040 So I'm on there on JakeLangJ6, L-A-N-G-Lang, JakeLangJ6.

00:39:43.320 And we've got a great following there.

00:39:45.300 And we post regularly tweets that go out to millions of people.

00:39:48.540 You see some videos of me on there praying in my prison setting on the floor of my prison cell.

00:39:53.920 It's still tweeted, pinned at the top.

00:39:57.720 So, you know, and then there's the videos.

00:40:00.000 And I have to mention this before we go.

00:40:02.420 The videos of me being liberated and reunited with my father and my fiance and all the amazing hundreds of supporters that are outside are such classic historical moments.

00:40:15.060 You have to go on my Twitter and take a look at some of these moments.

00:40:18.740 They'll bring a tear to your eyes because it's just like we fought such a hard battle.

00:40:24.120 And it was 10 degree weather inauguration night outside the D.C. jail in Washington, D.C.

00:40:30.640 It was freezing.

00:40:31.760 Our supporters were out there hunkered down waiting for our release.

00:40:35.960 And then when we were released, it was just like a moment like, you know, World War II where the men came home and the women, you know, were like kissing them in the street and stuff.

00:40:44.460 It was like our own moment like that.

00:40:46.940 Hundreds of cameras in my face.

00:40:48.400 I had my Bible in my hand.

00:40:50.060 I'm preaching.

00:40:50.840 I'm telling them God got us through.

00:40:52.920 Our enemies are folding.

00:40:54.560 We got them on the run.

00:40:55.440 It was great.

00:40:56.260 So please check that out.

00:40:58.080 Jake Lang J6 on my X or my Twitter account.

00:41:01.460 That's it's it's it's unforgettable.

00:41:03.380 But thank you very much for your time.

00:41:06.260 You've clearly got all the best intentions and I've got both my fingers crossed for your political career because I think that you're probably what America needs.

00:41:17.660 And I appreciate this being the third time you speak to us.

00:41:22.400 And hopefully the next time it will be as a senator and be a nice juicy scoop.

00:41:29.740 Every time you say that, every time you say that, you're like, hopefully the next time it'll be as a free man and you guys saved the world.

00:41:35.560 And we followed through on it.

00:41:37.400 Promises made, promises kept.

00:41:40.260 You know, we haven't saved the world.

00:41:41.500 Only Jesus can do that.

00:41:43.020 But we're well on our way to restoring some type of sanity here, both in America and across the world.

00:41:49.780 For too long, we've been living kind of in an upside down world here where the bad guys are venerated and the good guys are called evil.

00:41:59.020 And, you know, so it's good to be it's good to be back where there's two genders in America. 1.00

00:42:04.320 You know, the whole entire nine yards.

00:42:06.240 We're back.

00:42:07.060 America's back.

00:42:08.080 Great Britain.

00:42:09.160 You guys have a friend again.

00:42:10.780 We won't we won't, you know, leave you guys hanging.

00:42:13.600 We're going to save the world together.

00:42:15.200 These days, things have not got better here.

00:42:18.160 I can assure you of that.

00:42:20.060 I know.

00:42:20.920 I know.

00:42:21.240 There's so much strife there, you know, and one of the populist things that got Trump elected, which is something that Great Britain needs to follow through on is really the the reformation of immigration was something that was probably the number one rallying cry for Trump.

00:42:36.760 You know, making sure that America is full of Americans that respect our values and not foreigners that hold different key principles than we do. 1.00

00:42:47.900 And so, you know, ICE, which is the immigration service here, is, you know, is being celebrated across the country.

00:42:56.400 They're rounding up, you know, the Nicaraguans and the Colombians and all the people that just flooded across our border. 1.00

00:43:02.720 And I know that Great Britain has a very similar flooding of of outsiders, of, you know, invaders. 1.00

00:43:12.380 And so, you know, I know Tommy Robinson and, you know, some of your most outspoken political people are rallying around that.

00:43:20.000 But that needs to really take root and be able to elect people that are going to follow through on the will of the people like we did here with Donald Trump.

00:43:30.180 You guys need a Trump. We need to read Tommy Robinson and get him in office.

00:43:36.880 I couldn't see him becoming prime minister, but it'd be very entertaining if it happened.

00:43:42.880 I'll say that. But thank you once again for your time.

00:43:47.120 And I'll let you get on with the rest of your day.

00:43:49.920 And I very much appreciate you talking to us and, you know, enjoy the rest of your free time, I suppose.

00:43:56.460 And keep on at it.

00:43:59.280 Thank you. Thank you, guys. God bless you, brother.

00:44:01.240 God bless the Lotus Eaters. 1.00

00:44:02.580 And, you know, we didn't have a voice many other places.

00:44:04.960 You guys gave us a voice from the prison cell.

00:44:07.280 We'll never forget that.

00:44:08.520 We appreciate you very much.

00:44:10.040 So God bless you guys.

00:44:11.560 Have a good day.

00:44:12.280 We're rocking out.

00:44:13.320 Make America great again.

00:44:14.540 Bye-bye.

00:44:15.540 Bye-bye.

00:44:16.420 Bye-bye.

00:44:16.980 Bye-bye.

00:44:17.460 Bye-bye.

00:44:26.200 Bye-bye.

00:44:26.420 Bye-bye.

00:44:35.700 Bye-bye.

00:44:36.440 Bye-bye.

00:44:39.320 Bye-bye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - February 05, 2025

Former Jan 6th Prisoner ｜ Interview with Edward Jacob Lang

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