Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin, a commissioner in Otero County, N.M., appeared to have turned on the former president for failing to lock up former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during his one term in office.
Speaking at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas this weekend, Griffin called out Trump for not arresting Clinton after years of leading ‘lock her up’ chants at his rallies.
“We supported President Trump for his fight for justice. And for four years we cried ‘lock her up. Lock her up.’ We know she’s a criminal. What did the president tell us? ‘If I was in charge, you’d be in jail,'” Griffin said. “Ok, Mr. President, you’ve been in charge of the law for four years. At the end of your four year time, the only ones locked up were men like me, and others like me, that have stood by the president the strongest.”
Griffin is a loyal Trump supporter who is currently facing misdemeanor criminal charges for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. He allegedly appeared on an outdoor terrace and tried to lead the crowd in prayer.
Griffin was arrested in January and charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building. Prosecutors then added a charge for disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restrictive building in February, according to the Hill.
He pleaded not guilty to both charges in March and denied allegations that he knowingly entered barricaded areas at the Capitol during the insurrection.
Still, he is proud that he was among the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the election.
“I myself wear Jan. 6 as a badge of honor,” Griffin says in a documentary about the riot released in August, according to AP. “I’m glad that I went on that day. … to stand with my fellow Americans in protest of what will one day be known as the biggest rigged election in American history.”
He survived an effort to recall him from office as a petition drive collected 1,229 signatures from registered voters in Otero County district, short of what was needed to trigger a special election, AP reports.
