Sounds like Reffitt’s son went overseas and when he came back he was a different person. Maybe was indoctrinated while overseas.
“Jackson recorded his family home for 8 days following his Dad’s return from DC, and many of the recordings were Jackson provoking his dad into debate, and out and out purposely provoking his dad…all at the behest of the FBI.”
”I told the girls and my wife to contact him and see (about the letter). And my lawyer tried to reach to ask him if would like to write a mitigation letter – not that he is being asked to say he lied at trial or anything, but just that he would like me home so that I could be with my wife and my girls. Try to be home for all my kids actually. But he told my wife that he would not do that, because he said that my trial would set the example for all the Jan 6’ers and they all needed to be punished.
Reffitt also mentioned that no matter the outcome of his sentencing, his family has pledged not to react. This is similar to what Reffitt said to us during his trial- “We will never show them that they broke us.”
Castronuova: Right. Did that upset you?
Reffitt: It’s disturbing. Very disturbing. I don’t know where that mentality comes from – that is not how my son was raised. But since he has been back from overseas and back in the States, since high school since he has been back, it seems he has been on a downward spiral down an indoctrinated tunnel. It seems disturbing to me, I don’t know who that person is. It’s scary. It’s scary that people do that now, or that people think that way. Our society is just destroyed – it’s crushed. And I don’t understand what happened to it. Now I understand it, I see it, I think everybody knows it, I don’t think anybody can gameplay what is going on in our society today, it is pretty obvious.
Edit to add:
Reffitt: Ah, that’s part of the reason we had such turmoil in the house. He liked the BLM Movement, and he was strongly motivated to the political agenda at that time, and all the craziness that the country was going through at that time. And then he eventually started and wouldn’t stop, he would come in try to jab at me. He would stay in his room a lot, he would be on his computer a lot, him and his friend would play games and there was a lot of craziness in the games. And there would be motivated political discussions and he would come in and gaslight me into the conversations and then we would kind of banter back and forth.
Reffitt: My wife and I have discussed this and we have come to the same conclusion that when he got back from overseas and went to high school there in Wylie High School, the teacher a lot of the kids really liked was the “Ingenuity” teacher. They were all giddy about her and all of that, but she was teaching them about Communism and Socialism. They used our Facebook account to make a point to show the kids extreme Conservatives, as she put it in the classroom. Some of his friends and he said that they believe in Communism and they wanted the country to turn into Communism. One of his friends got so upset on January 6th when they were in the living room watching what happened, that when Nicole started talking about the Constitution she got up and left…she was so offended that the Constitution would even be discussed.
Sounds like Reffitt’s son went overseas and when he came back he was a different person. Maybe was indoctrinated while overseas.
“Jackson recorded his family home for 8 days following his Dad’s return from DC, and many of the recordings were Jackson provoking his dad into debate, and out and out purposely provoking his dad…all at the behest of the FBI.”
”I told the girls and my wife to contact him and see (about the letter). And my lawyer tried to reach to ask him if would like to write a mitigation letter – not that he is being asked to say he lied at trial or anything, but just that he would like me home so that I could be with my wife and my girls. Try to be home for all my kids actually. But he told my wife that he would not do that, because he said that my trial would set the example for all the Jan 6’ers and they all needed to be punished.
Reffitt also mentioned that no matter the outcome of his sentencing, his family has pledged not to react. This is similar to what Reffitt said to us during his trial- “We will never show them that they broke us.”
Castronuova: Right. Did that upset you?
Reffitt: It’s disturbing. Very disturbing. I don’t know where that mentality comes from – that is not how my son was raised. But since he has been back from overseas and back in the States, since high school since he has been back, it seems he has been on a downward spiral down an indoctrinated tunnel. It seems disturbing to me, I don’t know who that person is. It’s scary. It’s scary that people do that now, or that people think that way. Our society is just destroyed – it’s crushed. And I don’t understand what happened to it. Now I understand it, I see it, I think everybody knows it, I don’t think anybody can gameplay what is going on in our society today, it is pretty obvious.