Another Trump Obsessed Cult Member Arrested For Insurrection

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A Florida resident named Audrey Ann Southard, who works as a music teacher, is now among the latest Trump supporters to get arrested by federal authorities over their participation in the deadly January riot at the Capitol.

Apparently, Southard openly touted her participation in the violence on social media. In one Twitter post, she wrote that she was “Standing in front of the Capitol ready to take it,” adding that “As soon as we get enough people up here. To run the Capitol building. It’s going to be fun.” Southard was also caught on camera “pushing against an officer while holding a flagpole,” as a local NBC affiliate from the Tampa area summarizes federal revelations.

In audio captured at the riot, Southard can be heard openly calling for apparent physical violence. As she put it at the time, “Tell Pelosi we are coming for that b—-… You ready, you ready… There’s a hundred thousand of us, what’s it going to be?.. Last friend, last bullet. What’s it going to be?” She is now facing charges including “assault on a federal officer, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, obstruction of justice or congress, disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and engaging in a physical act of violence on capitol grounds,” that local NBC affiliate explains.

Just this week, another Capitol riot participant from the Tampa area, where Southard lives, pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge, thereby becoming the second rioter to take a plea deal. On Wednesday, Paul Hodgkins pleaded guilty to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding, which could have carried a prison sentence of up to 20 years if he was convicted of the allegation at trial. At present, Hodgkins — who toted a Trump flag onto the floor of the Senate — faces a sentence of 15 to 21 months. Hodgkins did not become a cooperating witness for investigators when entering his plea, but it’s not clear that he’d have had any useful information anyway. He has no apparent connections to far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and claimed to investigators that he traveled to D.C. alone.