The father of two Jan. 6, 2021, defendants who fled the FBI before President Donald Trump pardoned them spoke in an exclusive interview about what his family went through. Breitbart news on Saturday.
A newly released documentary about siblings Jonathan and Olivia Pollock and their father Ben Pollock tells the story of how the Polk County, Florida, clan became the target of an intense law enforcement raid during the Biden administration.
God bless America babyby independent journalist Tracey Eaton, details how Jonathan evaded capture and became a fugitive for more than two years, while Olivia and a third defendant turned off their GPS monitors and went on the run while on bail.
“When he came into my life, I didn’t trust him,” Ben said of Eaton, a former journalism professor. Breitbart news on Saturday host Matthew Boyle. “I didn't trust him. And all this time I didn't trust him… Because, you know, they were giving us so many CIA or FBI agents and everything.”
Eton also spoke with Boyle on Saturday, recalling how he worked to “accurately portray” the Pollock family's view of how Christianity helped them become “wanted” by the FBI.
Speaking about the pre-dawn raid on his family's home, Ben said he felt “the most brutal” compared to the other defendants he spoke to in the January 6 case. “It was just too much,” he continued, before sharing his fears that “they were trying to get the Americans into a shootout with them because they wanted to spin this story and blame us for the stolen election, like we were just crazy.”
“When I opened the door on the day of the raid, if it weren’t for my faith, I would have had a nervous breakdown,” Ben said. “And, I mean, it was terrible.”
When he carefully opened the door and saw what he called “at least three SWAT teams,” Ben said he realized, “Oh my God, we’re a red flag. [We’re] the family they're trying to get into a shootout with.”
“I had an AR-10 there by the door, and God said, 'If you pick it up, you're dead.' And so I left it where I was,” he recalls.
Jonathan, Olivia and Joseph Daniel Hutchison, another fugitive who worked in the Pollock family's gun shop, were arrested. arrested and taken into custody on the third anniversary of the protests on January 6, 2024.
It will be more than a year before Trump returns to the Oval Office and can… forgiveness Defendants on January 6, and what kept the Pollocks going was their faith.
According to Ben, the mainstream media didn't want to hear their story about how Christianity kept them afloat.
“They don't want religion. They don't want to know about the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world… That's what drives me because I've been freed from my guilt and sin,” Ben said.
Eaton said he called the documentary God bless America baby after Ben exclaimed this when they arrived at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
“[Trump’s] “Not my king, but I have a King Jesus, and one day I will sit on his throne, because he is the King of kings and Lord of lords,” Ben said. “But still, here on Earth, I get to sit down and have dinner with the president of the free world.”
“This man rolled out the red carpet,” Pollock Sr. added.
Now streaming on Relay, God bless America baby won the award for Best Feature Documentary at the Rome Short Film Festival in Italy; won awards at the Clout International Film Festival in California and the Southeast Asian International Film Festival in Thailand; was nominated at the Director's Cut Film Festival in Budapest, Hungary; and received honorable mentions at the Folkestone Film Festival in Connecticut, the Los Angeles Awareness Festival and the Athens International Monthly Feature Film Festival in Greece.
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