[Dion]

She once stormed the Capitol for Trump. Now, she’ll be supporting Kamala Harris in November

“I didn't realize that brainwashing was happening with Trump in 2016…this is how they would talk to me. ‘Pam, you know, the Democrats…are trying to take over. They're getting more aggressive.’ I tend to believe them. You know, I wasn't doing my own research.”

Hemphill said that Trump’s aggressive rhetoric on the border appealed to her at the time because he “had us (believing) that immigrants were criminals and out to take over our nation.” Trump called immigrants from Mexico “rapists” in 2015 and would use words such as "killer," "invasion" and "alien" in his rallies as a way to stoke fear among his supporters and present himself as the prime candidate to solve the border issue.

“It’s like a scar that I have to carry for the rest of my life…it's gonna be that shame(ful) feeling," she said. "It's not like I knew I was breaking the law, and I broke it anyway. However, I still was a part of that craziness, that cult. So it's like something I can't brush off.”

She said coming across facts by researchers helped her gradually drift apart from the MAGA group. Serving time in prison made Hemphill also rethink “who Trump really was” and the misinformation he spread surrounding the 2020 election, she said, to the point where she lost all support for him.

Hemphill also called out Trump last year after he shared a post on Truth Social criticizing her sentencing as unfair.

“Please don’t be using me for anything,” she wrote in a tweet directed at Trump. “I’m not a victim of Jan6, I pleaded guilty because I was guilty!”

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/she-once-s...090053450.html