A former Donald Trump supporter who admitted he participated in the attack on the U.S. Capitol told the House Jan. 6 committee that the trust he placed in the former president had derailed his life and ruined his reputation.
testified Tuesday that he had a family and a job at a cabinet company when he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. Ayres, who shared a poster featuring a quote from Trump's December 2020"will be wild" tweetAyres said he believed the president's false claims about the 2020 election. Being told the election was stolen made him feel"very upset," he said.
He thought that Trump would be marching with them to the Capitol and held out hope that the election might be overturned.when Trump tweeted that they should do so and that a lot of other people in the crowd did as well.
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