Son who ratted out his father over J6 says he’s ‘terrified’ about pardons
A young man who ratted out his father to the FBI for being present at the Capitol on January 6th now says he’s “terrified” that President Donald Trump has pardoned J6 hostages.
Jackson Reffitt was 18 years old in December 2020 when he first snitched on his father, Guy Reffitt. The Leftist youth submitted an online report to the FBI warning them that his father “was going to do something big.”
Guy had brought a gun with him to the rally but did not enter the Capitol and was not violent. He reportedly spent 44 minutes on a staircase outside the Capitol building.
When he returned from Washington, DC after January 6th, his son secretly recorded him discussing the events at the Capitol rally and turned the recordings over to the FBI. Days later, on January 16, 2021, FBI agents raided the Reffit house and arrested Guy. Jackson testified in court and asked that his father receive the maximum sentence. In August 2022, Guy was sentenced to over seven years in prison with an additional three years of supervised release.
Four days after the FBI raid, Jackson went on CNN to boast about his actions. Then-CNN host Chris Cuomo praised the youth for informing on his father. Over the next three years, other media outlets like The Washington Post and The Daily Beast showered Jackson with attention and praise.
Playing the victim
Now Jackson says he’s “terrified” that President Donald Trump has pardoned his father among roughly 1,500 J6 hostages and painted himself as a victim of his father.
“I’m honestly flabbergasted that we’ve gotten to this point,” he told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “I mean, I’m terrified. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve taken as many precautions as I could recently. I’ve picked up a gun, I’ve moved, and I’ve gotten myself away from what I thought would be a dangerous situation and staying where I thought my dad could find me or other people — people that are going to feel so validated by these actions, by this pardon.”
Jackson added that he was “waiting all day for a call from the DOJ” to “know what to do next.”
The youth acknowledged that turning in his father for political reasons — which mirrors behavior pushed by brutal Marxist regimes like Maoist China — was “disgusting.”
“I made a very, very disgusting decision to inform authorities about what he was doing, and I still feel horrible about it every day,” he said.
However, Jackson agreed with CNN’s sympathetic host, Erin Burnett, that it was January 6th and not his betrayal of his father that tore his family apart.
“My father’s actions coming from the Trump presidency and what he thought he was doing was right just destroyed it [my family],” he claimed.
Jackson added that he “cannot feel safe” around his parents or “far-Right Trump supporters.”
