Jake Lang, the longest serving Jan. 6 political prisoner under pretrial detention, was allegedly assaulted by D.C. Gulag guards Monday night while awaiting his release.
President Donald Trump pardoned nearly every defendant charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, including prisoners accused of violent crimes. Trump’s executive order granted “full, complete, and unconditional pardons” to over 1,500 people and commuted the sentences of another 14.
“What they’ve done to these people is outrageous,” Trump said from the White House Oval Office as he signed a stack of orders on the Resolute Desk. “We hope they come out tonight, frankly,” Trump said. “They’re expecting it.”
“JUST ANNOUNCED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS DROPPING MY JANUARY 6 CASE!!!!!! 4 YEAR AND 4 DAYS IN THE GULAG WITHOUT A TRIAL. IM FINALLY COMING HOME!!!! GOD BE MAGNIFIED!!! MOUNTAINS DO REALLY MOVE IN JESUS NAME!!!” Lang posted on X Monday night.
Although the pardons called for immediate release of the prisoners, nearly 30 of the hostages—including Lang— remained detained in federal prisons in D.C., Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Kentucky as of Tuesday morning. According to J6 activist Suzanne Monk, Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) was turning the screws inside the D.C. Gulag, where 22 prisoners were still being held, Tuesday.
Lang was allegedly “swarmed and assaulted” by prison officials overnight as he was sitting in his unit waiting to be released.
“I was swarmed & assaulted by prison officials including Lt. Allen & his Emergency Response Team (ERT) Thugs last night while sitting all packed up to leave!!!!” Lang posted on X. “Our were families are standing outside in below freezing 10° weather until 1am when they released 2 hostages, there are still 20 of us in here!!!”
Lang has spent four years and five days in the D.C. Gulag without a trial, including weeks at a time in “the hole.” He was hit with over a dozen charges related to the J6 riot, including criminal counts on assaulting law enforcement. Lang was accused of taking a bat to officers during the chaos.
He claimed in a previous post on Oct. 1, 2024, that he was also tackled and stripped naked and forced to undergo a humiliating cavity search in front of multiple prison guards.
“Last night, My cell was RAIDED & I was tackled & arm twisted violently against the wall by the Prison Correction Officers!!! I was stripped NAKED & search in my cavities & forced to stand naked around a half a dozen prison guards …” Lang posted.
“These tyrannical animals will not stop and we need President Trump to get these men released ASAP!!!!!!” a friend of Lang posted on X.
According to Monk, the following J6ers were still incarcerated as of Tuesday morning:
DC J6ers still being held
Taylor Taranto
Robert Turner
Rachel Powell
Jason Tasker
Tom Vournas
Daniel Ball
John Banuelos
Dominic Box
Rockne Earles
Vitali Gossjankowski
Joseph Hutchinson
Jake Lang
Theodore Middendorf
Darrell Neely
Jonathan Pollack
Olivia Pollack
Andrew Grigsby
Ryan Wilson
Daniel David
Gregory PurdyOK Grady County J6ers still being held
Mark Waynick
Damon Beckley
Jeanette MangiaMS Tallahatchee County J6ers still being held
Jason Blythe
Jerry WaynickKY Grayson County J6ers still being held
Zachary Alam
Christopher Maurer
Edward Richmond, Jr.
Bryan Smith
At 10:42 a.m., Monk updated to report that three of the KY Grayson County J6ers had been released: Christopher Maurer, Edward Richmond, Jr., Bryan Smith.
Zachary Alam is the suspected antifa agitator and possible informant who was caught on video breaking the window outside of the Speaker’s office when Ashl1 Babbitt was shot dead by Capitol Hill Police officer Michael Byrd.
At 12:08 p.m. Tuesday, independent journalist Lara Logan reported on X that some of the J6 prisoners were still being “illegally detained in the DC Gulag after being pardoned by Pres Donald Trump.”
Dominic Box, one of those DC Gulag hostages, told Logan: “We are being moved to the jail now but they won’t tell us what’s happening. Likely my last message until I know or land somewhere but thank you for everything and I pray we are leaving. Say the Marshals are meeting us at the Intake Center & to fill out a property drop form which likely means we are being taken somewhere else though they won’t say where. Please text my mom.”
Update:
Box now says he and another J6 hostage, Daniel Ball, are being refused discharge from the D.C. Gulag because they allegedly “have a detainer or warrant.”
According to Real America’s Voice reporter Ben Bergquam Tuesday afternoon, the reason why J6ers have not been released from the DC Gulag is because the official who was to sign off on the discharges was not present and the staff lack the authority to release them.
Rep. Crane told TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk that he was told prison staff are still awaiting official orders from the U.S. Marshalls directing them to free the prisoners.
Philip Anderson, a self-proclaimed “free speech activist and January 6 survivor,” alleged late Tuesday afternoon that the political prisoners are not being released because “their bodies show signs of torture.”
“Mayor Bowser is doing everything she can to slow down the release of J6 hostages from the DC prison because their bodies show signs of torture,” Anderson posted on X.
American Greatness reported on the disturbing allegations of torture at the DC Gulag in August 2022.
Anderson later asserted that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was trying to force the prisoners to sign non disclosure agreements about that time at the DC Gulag.
“Mayor Bowser is trying to get J6 prisoners to sign NDAs so that they won’t talk about being tortured, beaten, abused, and having their food tampered with by the prison guards,” he posted.
“DO NOT SIGN IT. After everything these democrat nation murdering parasites have taken from you DO NOT LET THEM TAKE THE TRUTH FROM YOU.”
Update: (7:09pm)
Jake Lang was released at around 7:00 pm Tuesday night, Anderson reported on X.
Correction: Lang was not strip searched on Jan 20th as initially reported, but was during previous encounters with prison guards.
Demonstrating once again that the deep state doesn’t care what DJT says.
Every single bureaucrat and guard associated with releasing and or detaining the J6 martyrs MUST be fired, arrested, and charged with as much as the government can possibly throw at them.
If there are no consequences, then this wil not only happen again, but the administrative state will know that Trump is a paper tiger.