There are some entertaining exchanges in the 195 Page Transcript of Daniel Rodriguez’s March 31st FBI interrogation... Such as this brain dead moment after #taserprick was told SWAT had found a weapon in his house:
Pg. 89
MR. RODRIGUEZ: My mom has a .45?
AGENT ELIAS: She said there's no guns in the house.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Oh, then, there's no gun in the house.
Good one, Dan... I’m sure they’re going to buy that crap! But, seriously…
The Independent
A Donald Trump fanatic who took part in the storming of the US Capitol and was subsequently arrested for having used a taser on a DC police officer, broke down during his FBI interview a transcript reveals.
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When being interviewed by FBI special agents, he repeatedly cried, worried that his “mom’s going to find out” what he did, and called himself “an a**hole”, “a f***ing piece of s***”, “so stupid”, and “not smart”.
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In relation to the attack on Officer Fanone, the agents ask him to explain what happened.
“Okay. What do you want me to tell you? That I tased him? Yes,” he said. “ Am I f***ing piece of s***? Yes.”
Asked why he did it, Mr Rodriguez cried and responded: “I don’t know. I’m a piece of s***. I’m sorry. I don’t know. He’s a human being with children, and he’s not a bad guy. He sounds like he’s just doing his job and he’s — I’m an a**hole.”
The transcript was filed by Mr Rodriguez’s federal public defenders in relation to a motion to suppress the interview arguing that he did not receive adequate Miranda warnings.
You read that right... the defense entered the transcript into evidence making it public record.
Huffington Post
Rodriguez, according to a transcript of his FBI interview filed in court by his defense attorney on Friday, said that he became radicalized watching videos on InfoWars and from conservative commentators like Steven Crowder, Mark Dice, and the Hodgetwins that convinced him of the conspiracy theory that Trump actually won the election. Rodriguez repeatedly referred to himself as “stupid” for believing that the pro-Trump mob he was a part of could take over the U.S. Capitol and install Trump as president for a second term.
“Are we all that stupid that we thought we were going to go do this and save the country and it was all going to be fine after? We really thought that. That’s so stupid, huh?” he told the FBI.
“I understand what it ― it’s very stupid and ignorant, and I see that it’s a big joke, that we thought that we were going to save this country, we were doing the right thing and stuff. I get it,” he said.
Rodriguez told the FBI that he “volunteered for Trump” and “did door-to-door and everything” for Trump’s campaign, and said he wanted to join the Army once Trump became president, and even went to the recruiting office.
Danny describes jumping on the Trump train as his way of turning over a new leaf after his life of crime…
Pg. 117
...I got involved with some of the -- some bad people, some gang members and I start -- I wanted to grow weed. I was growing weed. I got involved with the wrong people. I'm telling you, like, people -- killers, like, tattoos all over their face, like, not good people.
And I was growing weed with them and I was like,yeah, this is cool. They all got low riders and this and that, and I was like, oh, this is that lifestyle that's for me. But it wasn't. I didn't fit in. I'm a good person trying to -- and I wanted to be a bad person, and it just didn't work for me. And I kept getting robbed and they kept from me.
And then Trump -- and I was listening to InfoWars and I was, like, getting patriotic and I was -- and I ended up leaving all those people behind me and I ended up being homeless. I became -- I put myself to be homeless because I didn't want to deal with these people anymore. They had something over me and, like --
Q. Yeah.
A. I'm lucky to -- I lost everything. I lost everything that was -- I have nothing. I had what was in a suitcase and I -- now I don't even have that suitcase. But I wanted to be a good person. I wanted to get away from those criminals. I'm like, this is -- they don't have honor, integrity. They're not like what they seem. They're not about loyalty. This is not the kind of people that I want to be around.
Dan’s so fucking loyal he tased a cop for Trump... how many times?
Pg. 81
MR. RODRIGUEZ: It was only one time. There's no way it's twice. It's edited if it's twice.
AGENT ELIAS: You strike him on the right side --on his left side and he recoils and grabs, and you come back in and you do it again.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
AGENT ELIAS: Thousand percent.
AGENT ARMENTA: It's right there.
AGENT ELIAS: Watch the video. See if I can find the straight video.
AGENT ARMENTA: There's the taser.
AGENT ELIAS: Is that you?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Yeah.
AGENT ELIAS: Is that your hat?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Yeah.
AGENT ARMENTA: I mean, they did all the work for us.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Yeah. I'm telling you, they set us up on purpose.
BY AGENT ELIAS:
Q. Did somebody stick a taser in your hand?
A. No. I'm saying they set up as far as, like, they went over there to film everybody that they recognized,like, to do this on purpose afterwards. No, they didn't stick a taser in my hand. I did.
Q. You tased the officer. Nobody put -- Trump didn't put you up to tasing the officer.
A. No, no. No, he didn't. I did.
Q. You did it all on your own.
(Special Agent Armenta stops the video.)
One of the more amusing moments of the transcript started with some confusion in regards to which noun an adjective applied...
Pg, 66
Q. ...But then in the middle on the 6th, you got a taser from someone else. Some random person.
A. A black one.
Q. Gave you a taser and that's what you used on the officer.
A. (Nods head.)
Q. You see how that's kind of weird to me?
A. No. I mean, no, I don't. What's weird?
AGENT ELIAS:
Q. Well, describe to us more, then, how you ended up with this other taser from some random stranger because,right now, it seems a little more logical that the taser that was used by you was the taser that was brought from LA.
A. Yeah, for sure.
Q. So explain to us. We're happy to listen.
A. I just asked. I said, we need a taser. I yelled. I yelled in the tunnel. I'm like, we need somebody with a taser up here. And someone pulled it out of their pocket and gave it to me, and it was, like, in a little leather --it was, like, a little pouch. It was, like, square. Almost like a pack of cigarettes, like a square. And then I didn't know how to use it or turn it on and I'm like -- I was like,what is this?
And then like the guy takes it back from me or I give it back to him and he takes it out of the case. And then he flips a switch, and he tests it or pushes it for me,and he gave it to me.
AGENT ARMENTA: Didn't you just say it was a Black woman that gave it to you?
MR. RODRIGUEZ: No?
AGENT ELIAS: Yeah, you did.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: A Black woman? No, I ask the taser was black.
AGENT ELIAS: No, you said a Black woman gave it to you. You interrupted him to say --
MR. RODRIGUEZ: No, I --
AGENT ELIAS: -- it was a Black woman that gave it to you.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: -- for sure haven't said anything about a Black woman.
AGENT ARMENTA: You did.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: Where's the cameras or the recording? There's no -- I never said, Black woman.
AGENT ARMENTA: Okay.
MR. RODRIGUEZ: What do you mean, Black woman? I never said anything about a Black woman.
Danny claims later that he hasn’t a clue if entering the Capitol via window is illegal...
Pg. 111
Q. Let me explain something to you clearly know about. Were you legally inside the Capitol? When you entered through a broken window of the United States Capitol Building, are you legally in there?
A. I don't know if that's the law, if it's illegal to enter through a broken window.
Q. If I throw a rock through your sliding glass door at your house and, not as a police officer, I enter in your house, am I legally in your house?
A. No, you're not. I just --
Q. If you throw a rock through the front of Macy's --
A. Well, there's people --
Q. -- and you walk into Macy's through the broken window, are you legally inside of Macy's?
A. I thought that there was people already -- it's a public building that people were walking through the front door.
Q. Did you enter through a public entrance?
A. No.
Q. How did you enter?
A. Through a window.
Q. Okay. So don't game me, right? You knew it was illegal to go --
A. I didn't know, no. I didn't think about it. I didn't -- it didn't enter my mind.