after the FBI was alerted to videos he had posted showing himself there, according to legal documents.
Straka — a self-proclaimed former liberal — is the founder of the WalkAway campaign, which encourages people to leave the Democratic Party. The complaint alleges that the video shows Straka at the crowded Capitol steps, dressed in the same outfit as the previous day. He said he had been booked as a guest speaker at a planned rally that day at the Capitol, which did not ultimately take place, according to prosecutors.Straka also appears to have deleted several tweets from January 6, screenshots of which were sent to the FBI and recorded in the complaint. They included:"I arrived at the Capitol a few hours ago as Patriots were storming from all sides. I was quite close to entering myself.
Being there and being in the building are not the same thing.
He is a Roma man from the former Czechoslovakia.