After leaving the building, they filmed a video together in which Ochs said they came to “stop the steal.'
Ochs posted on Twitter a picture of the men smoking cigarettes inside the Capitol, and the caption said:"Hello from the Capital lol,” according to court papers.
Ochs told CNN that he was working as a “professional journalist" and that he did not have to break into the Capitol, but just “walked in and filmed.” Before his arrest, DeCarlo also told The Los Angeles Times that they were journalists. Ochs was the Republican Party’s candidate to represent Waikiki in the Hawaii House in the November 2020 election. Ochs lost to Democrat Adrian Tam.
The leader and members of another far-right extremist group, the Oath Keepers, are heading to trial later this month on the charge of seditious conspiracy. The Oath Keepers are the first Jan. 6 defendants facing the rare and difficult-to-prove charge to go to trial.
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