Meet Celeste Maloy. On January 6th, 2021 she was working as a staffer to Republican now-former Utah Congressman Chris Stewart who resigned a few months ago because of family health issues something something. Maloy is now running in a special election to replace Stewart, and faces in voters next week. This week the Salt Lake Tribune dug up the above video dated February 1, 2021, in which Maloy told an interviewer from a Washington County, Utah Republican women’s group that, just a few weeks earlier, even while she was hiding in the Capitol bunker from the violent insurrectionists, she was “getting a lot of phone calls from people I know asking if this was a false flag attack,” with the people asking her “Is this really Antifa? Trump supporters don’t do this.”

“I spent a lot of time that day just telling people, ‘Yeah, these are Trump supporters,'” Maloy told the interviewer. “The fact that the actual Confederate Army never got into the US Capitol, but we had Trump supporters carrying a Confederate flag into the Capitol in 2021 was sort of soul-crushing. It was a hard thing to watch… Americans support the institutions of our country more than we support people. We don’t get behind dictators. Our loyalty isn’t even primarily to the Republican Party, it’s to America. And watching people go into the Capitol like that felt like they were proving me wrong on all those beliefs.” We’re going to have to double check this but we’re pretty sure that very heavy implication that Trump is a “dictator” makes Maloy a backstabbing lowlife RINO traitor.

Maloy would not answer a question from the Tribune this week about whether she still stood by those comments, saying only “Republicans are the party of law and order – and I am a law-and-order Republican. I believe the video where I talk about January 6th is clear on that.”