The now-infamous crutches that appeared multiple times at the mouth of the tunnel entrance to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were stolen from a young man with a broken ankle, according to podcaster Steve Baker.
Baker, who blogs and podcasts as the Pragmatic Constitutionalist, learned the story of the stolen crutches while on a speaking tour in Texas.
“At one particular meet-up, and in casual discussion after one of those meetings,” Baker told The Epoch Times, “a young lady mentioned to me that it was her own brother’s crutches that had become a central feature at the Capitol’s west side tunnel skirmish.”…