“While plenty of defendants later arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol joined many of their fellow Trump supporters in blaming antifa for the attack, plenty of others were also a bit upset that their work alongside a mob of Trump supporters was being attributed to some fictitious gang of anti-fascists. HuffPost found at least [four] Capitol insurrectionists charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol who, the feds say, complained on social media about Antifa getting credit for their work” reports Huffington Post.

“‘Listen up: I hear so many reports of ‘Antifa’ was storming the capital [sic] building. Know that every single person who believes that narrative have been DUPED AGAIN!’ wrote Ryan Nichols, who was charged alongside his fellow insurrectionist Alex Harkrider. ‘Sure, there may have been some ‘Antifa’ in DC, but there wasn’t enough to ‘Storm the Capital’ [sic] themselves.’ ‘Okay all you conspiracy theorists ? don’t worry I loves yous all just setting the record straight,’ wrote Karl Dresch. ‘antifa did not take the capitol.that was Patriots, I can’t guarantee there weren’t some shit birds in the crowd but what multi-million crowd can you guarantee?.don’t give them the thunder, we the people took back our house, the news is all bullshit.and now those traitors Know who’s really in charge.’ ‘It was not Antifa at the Capitol,’ wrote Brandon Straka, a ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer with ties to Trump who was charged last month. ‘It was freedom loving Patriots who were DESPERATE to fight for the final hope of our Republic because literally nobody cares about them. Everyone else can denounce them. I will not.'”