The father took part in the January 6 storming of the Capitol. His son turned him in to the FBI. Now that Donald Trump has pardoned him, Guy Reffitt and his wife are hoping for a return to normalcy - and fearful that it way never come.

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    9 days ago

    Oh man, reading that was a wild ride. The unrepentant convicted insurrectionist vacillates between deep hate speech and positive statements supporting his son. The wife watched her unemployed husband desend into the cult and is in a fantasy land of hoping her family will be the loving close family they were before the father/husband went full MAGA.

    There is that one incident that the family cannot agree on. Guy Reffitt [the insurrectionist father] asked Jackson [the son] about his political convictions, and Jackson responded by saying he was communist. And that America should be communist. "That makes you a traitor, bro,” Guy purportedly said. And traitors deserve to be shot.

    Father of the year here. /s

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      that makes you a traitor

      Says the guy that tried over throwing the legitimate government based off lies from a mobster wannabe