‘So Why Were You Sent To Prison?’ CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Confronts Convicted Pro-Trump Rioter Claiming ‘I Did Nothing Wrong’

Convicted Jan. 6 rioter and current congressional candidate Derrick Evans told CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan he “did nothing wrong” when O’Sullivan confronted him outside an event.

Evans served 3 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia to a felony charge of civil disorder.

On Sunday’s edition of CNN’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper — entitled “MisinfoNation: The Trump Faithful” —O’Sullivan pushed Evans, now running for a House seat in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, when he claimed “January 6th was the most patriotic day of my life” and “I did nothing wrong that day”:

O’SULLIVAN: National media headlines about you is January 6th insurrectionist, now he’s running for Congress. What do you want people to know about you beyond that big headline?

EVANS: Well, first of all, I’m a husband and I’m a father. I’ve got four beautiful children. I love my family very much. I love my community. I love my country. And I think it’s despicable that, you know, the media and particularly CNN has helped paint this false narrative of insurrection.

O’SULLIVAN: How would you characterize what happened on January 6th?

EVANS: January 6th was the most patriotic day of my life.

[EVANS’ VOICE IN VIDEO CLIP]: We’re not putting up with this tyrannical rule.

EVANS: I did nothing wrong that day. We have natural God-given rights in this country. I know a lot of people out there and a lot of your viewers, there were probably a lot of good people, but they believe that our rights come from the government. That’s simply not true. Our rights come from God.

[EVANS’ VOICE IN VIDEO CLIP]: Calm down, guys. Calm down in the back.

EVANS: I’m heard reminding people to be peaceful and nonviolent and non-destructive.

[EVANS’ VOICE IN VIDEO CLIP]: We’re in. We’re in. Derrick Evans is in the Capitol. No vandalizing property.

EVANS: I did more to control the crowd than the police did that day. And I’m the one who goes to prison.

O’SULLIVAN: So why were you sent to prison?

EVANS: Because this is a political charges right now. I’m a political prisoner. All these people in prison are political prisoners.

O’SULLIVAN: You did decide to plead guilty.

EVANS: Yes.

O’SULLIVAN: So that was out of practicality?

EVANS: Well, I mean, when you’re facing 24 years in prison, what options you have? I was ready to move on with my life, and the Constitution is written for one reason and one reason only. It’s written to prevent the government from infringing on our natural God-given rights. What I was doing that day was not only protected by the Constitution, it was protected by those natural God-given rights of free speech.

O’SULLIVAN: But also of course there’s a separation between church and state.

EVANS: No, there’s not. There’s no separation of church and state. That’s another lie that’s been portrayed by the left.

There’s no separation of church and state. There’s not one. Ever.

O’SULLIVAN (voice-over): Invoking religion to promote our politics and justify our actions is nothing new. Indeed before he was running for Congress, Derrick made a name for himself harassing women outside abortion clinics.

Watch above via CNN’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.

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