Josh Munn, 24, pleaded guilty to illegally protesting inside the Capitol. He could face up to six months in prison when he is sentenced in August, according to the plea agreement read aloud in court, and will pay $500 for damage done to the building.
Josh Munn is one of many Capitol riot defendants charged with family members, though the Munn family is the largest group of relatives to be charged together to date.
Munn said that at first, he was hesitant to go to the January 6 rally because he was saving his money for a move to Wisconsin. But when his parents offered to pay for the trip, Munn said that he would be “happy to go.”
After the riot, Munn family members boasted of their participation on social media.
“Before you hear it on the news I am I [sic] family marched on DC today it was extremely cool” Munn wrote on Facebook on January 6. He said that his family was among the “second group” of people to enter the building and that the violence that day “came from the police believe it or not.”
In response to his messages, Munn told US District Judge Beryl Howell on Thursday that, “I was still trying to calm myself down at that point. I was trying to make myself bigger than I was.”
“I regret making the officers the villains in the situation,” he added. “They were just doing their job.”
