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babylonsister

(171,056 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:35 AM Mar 2022

Capitol Riot Suspect Evan Neumann Wins Asylum in Belarus

Good, then stay out, see how that suits you.


Capitol Riot Suspect Evan Neumann Wins Asylum in Belarus
‘I FEEL SAFE’
Evan Neumann turned up in the country late last August—and almost immediately began spewing Kremlin talking points on Belarusian state television.
Allison Quinn
News Editor
Published Mar. 22, 2022 10:40AM ET



A California man wanted by the FBI for his role in the deadly Jan. 6, 2020, Capitol riot has just been granted asylum in Belarus, according to Belarusian state media.

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Neumann, 48, was charged on six different counts last July, including violent entry and assaulting police officers. But he was already in the wind, having reportedly sold his house and absconded first to Ukraine, and then Belarus last August.

In November, he turned up on Belarusian state TV begging for political asylum and telling a wild story about how he had navigated “swamps” and “quicksand”—as well as snakes and wild boar—to make it into the promised land that (according to him) is Belarus.

In a segment that began by claiming that Neumann had just tried to “make America great again,” the fugitive rioter said he had gone to the Capitol that day for the sake of his children.

more...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/capitol-riot-suspect-evan-neumann-wins-asylum-in-belarus?ref=home

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Capitol Riot Suspect Evan Neumann Wins Asylum in Belarus (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2022 OP
Good riddance you treasonous f**k. Thomas Hurt Mar 2022 #1
And don't come back. Aristus Mar 2022 #12
And that tells us all we need to know dflprincess Mar 2022 #2
It sure does. yardwork Mar 2022 #11
So he thinks he's making his children proud? Walleye Mar 2022 #3
They can have him. Ocelot II Mar 2022 #4
Good luck trying to reenter the good ol USA MagickMuffin Mar 2022 #5
Has he given up his US citizenship at the nearest US Embassy? obamanut2012 Mar 2022 #6
Maybe you can get a nice apartment... orwell Mar 2022 #7
Or how about... orwell Mar 2022 #8
Funny as I read this... MiHale Mar 2022 #9
Love it or leave it... I guess we know how he feels about America now. Probatim Mar 2022 #10
He could be the FOX correspondent in Belarus. Sneederbunk Mar 2022 #13
What did he do with his wife and kids? Srkdqltr Mar 2022 #14
My CT: He was always a Russian Agent msfiddlestix Mar 2022 #15
Actually, if America and Belarus end up fighting on the same side they Baitball Blogger Mar 2022 #16

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
12. And don't come back.
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 12:01 PM
Mar 2022

The way Lee Harvey Oswald did when he realized that the Soviet Union wasn't the promised land, either. That didn't end well for anyone.

MagickMuffin

(15,936 posts)
5. Good luck trying to reenter the good ol USA
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:43 AM
Mar 2022


Are you taking your so beloved family or Are you going to abandon them?


orwell

(7,771 posts)
7. Maybe you can get a nice apartment...
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:45 AM
Mar 2022

...with Snowden.

We can film it for Reality TV.

We'll call it Dumb and Dumber II...

msfiddlestix

(7,278 posts)
15. My CT: He was always a Russian Agent
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 03:35 PM
Mar 2022

He is just among thousands of agents who've created boogaloo, Proud Boys, Qanon, infiltrated KKK decades ago, and Neo-Nazi Separatists among all of the other militia groups in this country including the Military, Intelligence, FBI, Secret Service etc etc etc

Not saying they wouldn't have existed because of the obvious, but I'm saying they got a lot of help via infiltrators and sleepers

that's how I'm looking at all these white terrorists.

This story doesn't surprise me, in fact I was surprised we haven't heard more similar stories. well sort of surprised, but then not really something that's going to be reported out cuz that would be a really tough reality to deal with.



Baitball Blogger

(46,699 posts)
16. Actually, if America and Belarus end up fighting on the same side they
Tue Mar 22, 2022, 04:04 PM
Mar 2022

will probably hand over the dweeb without strings.

And if Belarus fights for Russia, they'll probably send him to the front.

Sounds like a win-win scenario for us.

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