Former New York state Senate candidate arrested on Trump Capitol riot charges

Christmann on an Instagram post after the riot wrote he “wasn’t one of the first people in,” but was “when realized it was happening I was scaling walls and s—,” the filing said, referring to a screen grab of the conversation.

Christmann claimed he “scaled a wall on a garden hose,” the filing said.

On the same day, another follower asked Christmann if he had gone “inside” the Capitol,

“How could I not?” he replied, the filing said.

Christmann then asked people on private messages on Facebook on Jan. 18 to “delete” some videos from the riot, noting that “my friend jake got taken in and my campaign manager from this summer got taken in.”

“Its go time on the end of times,” Christmann said in that Facebook message.

Jake is a reference of Edward Jacob Lang, an upstate New York resident, while Christmann’s campaign manager was Nicolas Moncada, who until last year was an illustrations major at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.

Both of those men were arrested earlier this year and charged in connection with the Capitol riot.

Lang, who remains jailed without bail, was seen on videos and photographs “violently engaging with law enforcement officers as they attempted to keep rioters out of the Capitol,” a court filing in his case says.

One video shows what appears to be Lang “raising a riot shield over his head as the crowd cheers and then violently slam the shield down on the ground repeatedly near where the officers are visibly lined up,” the filing said.

Another video shows Lang jabbing a bat at officers multiple times.

Lang is charged with civil disorder, assaulting police, obstruction of an official proceeding and other crimes in an indictment.

Moncada, according to a court filing on Jan. 16, posted on his Instagram account a photo of himself with the caption, “Outside Pelosi’s office,” which was a reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California.

He is charged with unlawful entry on restricted grounds, and violent entry disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/28/new-york-senate-candidate-arrested-on-trump-capitol-riot-charges.html