Guest post by Patriot Legal Defense
Chris Quaglin, a January 6 prisoner among the 1,500 pardoned by President Donald Trump in a bombshell January 20, 2025, clemency blitz, weeps with gratitude for his fragile freedom, but his heart breaks anew each day.
The government’s relentless political prosecution didn’t just rob him of years behind bars; it stole his family, his home, and his dreams, leaving him a broken man with nothing but a mission to save others from the same fate.
Once a proud husband and father, he now stands alone, crushed by legal fees he can’t pay.
The government didn’t just lock him away; they stole his family, his home, and his future, leaving him drowning in $100,000 of criminal defense debt and clawing for another $20,000 to $40,000 to see the son they ripped from his arms—all while he pours his soul into the J6 Freedom Tour, a grueling trek across every state to demand prison reform.
“What they did to us, they could do it to you too, in a heartbeat, for daring to stand in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Quaglin told the Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview.
Chris Quaglin
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On April 7, 2021, FBI goons stormed his New Jersey home, flashbang grenades exploding as his two-month-old son wailed in terror, dragging Quaglin into a concrete hellhole—years of solitary confinement under a 12-year sentence that Trump’s pardon finally shattered.
Hours after the raid, Special Agent Benjamin Fulps leaned across a sterile interrogation room table, dangling a deal: choke out the Justice Department’s twisted January 6 conspiracy lies, and maybe they’d ease the punishment —or even let him walk.
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“The feds didn’t care about truth; they wanted a puppet, and they’d grind me to dust get one.”
“You’re not the only person [we’re] arresting today. We are arresting more people, Thursday, Friday, over the weekend, you’re like number 350,” agent Fulp taunted. “A lot of those people are talking and giving us information, which will be used to arrest other people. I tell you that so that you know that this is kind of a time-sensitive proposal that I’m offering you right now.”
“So, I’m here to kind of throw you that raft right now to help you from drowning … because I don’t want you to go away for 40 years and not see your [child] grow up and, of course, your wife.”
The threat was a knife to the throat: lie, or lose it all. But Quaglin wouldn’t bend.
“Someday, my son will hear this story,” he said. “I won’t teach him it’s fine to lie to save your skin. I won’t rip another man from his family to save mine.”
His defiance held even as the feds twisted deeper — his wife, crushed by federal pressure, dumped him in last July, a week before trial, sobbing, “I don’t have a choice.”
She took their son — now three, a stranger to his dad— their home, everything, armed with sole custody while he rotted in a cell.
Chris Quaglin
“They got to her,” Quaglin said. “I’m certain the feds turned her against me. She was crying when she left, but they broke her. The court undervalued my house by a quarter million, handed it to her in a sham divorce days before trial.
A restraining order keeps him from even whispering “I love you” to his little son.
Chris Quaglin
“Then they transferred me across the country days before my divorce hearing so that I couldn’t show up,” Quaglin explained. “They undervalued my house by a quarter million, gave it to her in a sham divorce. I had four days to fight from a cell. I’m homeless now— because of them!”
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Today, Quaglin’s buried in that $100,000 legal tab from what he calls a “witch hunt,” scraping for more to hold his boy again—a child who doesn’t know his face because the government made damn sure of it.
“The government turned my life into ash, and they’ll do it to you too if you cross their line.”
Now picking up odd jobs to survive, Quaglin is channeling his fury into the J6 Freedom Tour, launched in early 2025 with Veterans for Trump and the Stop Hate Awareness Program.
“I’ve got no home, but I’ll drag myself state to state because every American needs to be aware of hell behind those prison walls. Prison reform like HB 2105 must pass everywhere— everywhere — or they’ll keep crushing us. No one should suffer like I did.”
Quaglin kicked off the J6 Freedom Tour with a visit to Northern Neck Regional Jail in Virginia, notorious for inmate abuse scandals — including a 2023 lawsuit alleging guards beatprisoners unconscious — where Quaglin nearly starved to death.
His testimony to the jail’s board lit a fire, prompting Virginia lawmakers to scramble to action.
“From rats and mice to roaches and food, to guards beating on inmates, to a
superintendent and a captain who think they make up their own rules and there are no such things as prisoner rights or human rights,” he told the NNRJ board Feb. 14, “I have been treated like a guinea pig by medical personnel who don’t know what they’re doing.”
Within hours of Quaglin’s visit to the jai, the Virginia House rammed HB 2105 to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s desk. This measure mandates sheriffs to probe abuse in correctional facilities, and it’s there because the January 6 prisoners spoke.
“It’s waiting for Younkin’s signature,” he said, eyes blazing with hope and fury. “I told them how guards laughed at our rights, how I nearly died, and they moved—fast. But it’s not enough—not until every state stops this tyranny.”
“My celiac disease was eating me alive while guards laughed — no food, no soap, no sunlight, just roaches and screams. I was a skeleton when I left, locked in solitary 24/7 for a year because I dared file grievances,” he said recounting the 12 months he was held in NNRJ. “They beat men unconscious. One guy was kicked so hard in the back by guards while shackled, he fell forward and his teeth exploded on a ledge. I wrote 4,000 pages of their crimes, and they targeted me for it. You could be next—you, for a protest, a mistake, anything!”
Quaglin intends to sue the government for his illegal arrest, torture, years of “24/7 lockdown” that scarred his soul, and he is calling on the American people for support to get it done, selling J6 t-shirts and flags to fund 100 tour stops in six months.
“I just want to hold my son,” he said, “and I’ll be damned if they do this to anyone else. They’ve taken everything from me. I won’t let them win. Everyone needs to know what we survived—what you could face.”
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