Derrick Evans—a former Republican state lawmaker in West Virginia convicted of participating in the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol—is facing backlash after posting a photo on Christmas Day featuring tree ornaments depicting Democratic leaders hanging from nooses.
Figures of former President Barack Obama, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former presidential Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci were also included in the photo.
The former state lawmaker, who is running as a Republican for U.S. Congress in 2024, pleaded guilty in 2022 to felony civil disorder in the January 6 attack and sentenced to three months in prison.
The picture garnered backlash from several users on X, including Jeff Hoffman, who wrote that Evans’ post was “downright disgusting and we should never let someone like this hold office.”
“Derrick Evans of West Virginia needs to be locked up in prison AGAIN because he failed to learn his lesson about being a seditious insurrectionist,” wrote X user Jon Thomas, who also tagged law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Capitol Police.
“The traitor Jonathan ‘Derrick’ Evans is under supervised release until at least September 2025, yet he continues to make thinly veiled threats to hang people … Back to jail dips***!?”
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Derrick Evans—a former Republican state lawmaker in West Virginia convicted of participating in the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol—is facing backlash after posting a photo on Christmas Day featuring tree ornaments depicting Democratic leaders hanging from nooses.
Figures of former President Barack Obama, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former presidential Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci were also included in the photo.
The former state lawmaker, who is running as a Republican for U.S. Congress in 2024, pleaded guilty in 2022 to felony civil disorder in the January 6 attack and sentenced to three months in prison.
The picture garnered backlash from several users on X, including Jeff Hoffman, who wrote that Evans’ post was “downright disgusting and we should never let someone like this hold office.”
“Derrick Evans of West Virginia needs to be locked up in prison AGAIN because he failed to learn his lesson about being a seditious insurrectionist,” wrote X user Jon Thomas, who also tagged law enforcement agencies like the FBI and Capitol Police.
“The traitor Jonathan ‘Derrick’ Evans is under supervised release until at least September 2025, yet he continues to make thinly veiled threats to hang people … Back to jail dips***!?”
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