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Misinformation and the Jan. 6 insurrection: When ‘patriot warriors’ were fed lies | Politifact

It was around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 11, when police got word of a Nissan Versa driving erratically near the New York-New Jersey border. Once they caught up to the driver, they discovered the man covered in blood, with gashes across his arms and thighs.

“I am tired,” Jeffrey Sabol, 51, told the Clarkstown, N.Y., police officers as they aided him, according to court documents. “I am done fighting.”

Searching the car, the Clarkstown police found razor blades, a note with login information for a computer, a passport, a Social Security card and an airline e-ticket.

They also found a teal backpack and a tan Carhartt jacket — items that would soon be used to place Sabol among the hundreds of people who had breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an historic attempt to forcefully stop the certification of an American presidential election.

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Source: Misinformation and the Jan. 6 insurrection: When ‘patriot warriors’ were fed lies | Politifact