WATCH: Trump Fan Confesses To FBI That He Electroshocked D.C. Cop During Capitol Attack

By the time the FBI showed up to his moms house in Southern California to arrest him in late March, 38-year-old Donald Trump supporter Danny Rodriguez knew he was in trouble. Youd be hard-pressed to find a bigger Trump fan than Rodriguez: He even tried to join the Army when Trump became president, showing up to a recruiting office with a Trump shirt on. So when Trump said that the election had been stolen, Rodriguez actually believed him, and when the president tweeted Be there, will be wild! about a protest in D.C. on Jan. 6, Rodriguez started making plans.

In a Telegram chat called PATRIOTS 45 MAGA Gang, Rodriguez laid out his agenda. We gotta go handle this shit in DC, he wrote, later adding: Congress can hang. Ill do it. Please let us get these people dear God. Days before the Capitol attack, before he left the Los Angeles area, federal authorities say Rodriguez told an associate that hed assassinate Joe Biden if he got the chance and would rather die than live under a Biden administration.

When he arrived in D.C., Rodriguez did put it all on the line for the former real estate mogul hed watched on The Apprentice, the reality-television personality who Rodriguez said was almost like an old friend. As the pro-Trump mob seized Mike Fanone, a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who self-deployed to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Rodriguez drove a stun gun into Fanones neck, shocking him. Fanone suffered a heart attack and barely made it out alive.

After attacking Fanone, Rodriguez went into the Capitol through a broken window, tried to smash out another window, and ransacked an office in search of intel. He later posed for a photo outside the Capitol building, and was in a celebratory mood when he returned to an Airbnb in northern Virginia where he was staying with other Trump supporters he knew from Trump rallies in California.

What do you want me to tell you? That I
tased him? Yes. Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.

Heres Trump fanatic Danny Rodriguez confessing to electroshocking D.C. Officer Mike Fanone on Jan. 6.

(Will add key moments of the FBI interview here as the videos process.) pic.twitter.com/p033Qw87ok

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What do you want me to tell you? That I
tased him? Yes. Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.

Heres Trump fanatic Danny Rodriguez confessing to electroshocking D.C. Officer Mike Fanone on Jan. 6.

(Will add key moments of the FBI interview here as the videos process.) pic.twitter.com/p033Qw87ok
Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 1, 2021

But Rodriguez was in a much less cheerful mood when he was arrested on March 31, one month after he was identified in a HuffPost story as the Capitol rioter who delivered the electric shock to Fanone. Sitting in an FBI interview room that morning, wearing a white tie-dyed sweatshirt, Rodriguez broke down in tears as he told the FBI how he came to shock Fanone on Jan. 6 after a steady diet of pro-Trump propaganda from right-wing media outlets like InfoWars.

Q. You thought you were that three percent guy.

A. (Crying.)

"I'm so stupid. I thought I was going to be awesome. I thought I was a good guy." pic.twitter.com/0RI8rxo8DB
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 1, 2021

The FBI special agents who questioned Rodriguez referenced HuffPosts coverage of Rodriguezs attack on Fanone, with one telling Rodriguez that antifa, BLM and the Huffington Post were telling the Danny Rodriguez story and that he needed to talk to them to get his own story out there.

FBI: "the court of public opinion has a story from the Huffington Post, has a story from Waterspider on Twitter, from Antifa and BLM."

Danny Rodriguez: "My story is just that we thought that we were going to save America, and we were wrong." pic.twitter.com/RroZe2BB5K
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 1, 2021

The court of public opinion has a story from the Huffington Post, has a story from Waterspider on Twitter, from antifa and BLM, said special agent Nate Elias. Theyre all telling the Danny Rodriguez story. But heres your opportunity to tell us your story.

My story is just that we thought that we were going to save America, and we were wrong, Rodriguez replied.

The video of the FBIs March 31 interview of Rodriguez, released to members of the media by federal prosecutors this week after an order from U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, is a remarkable look at how a radical Trump supporter came to engage in an act of domestic terrorism in hopes of keeping the former president in office for a second term. An emotional Rodriguez explains how he actually believed Trumps dangerous lies about the 2020 election , referring to himself as fucking piece of shit, so stupid, an asshole, and not smart as he confesses his crimes.

"We felt that they stole the election... we felt that they stole this country, that it's gone, it's wiped out. America's over... it's very stupid and ignorant, and I see that it's a big joke, that we thought that we thought that we were going to save this country." pic.twitter.com/WffxBEUZjP
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 1, 2021

I thought we were going to occupy the building, Rodriguez said. We felt that they stole the election. We thought they we felt that they stole this country, that its gone, its wiped out. Americas over. Its destroyed now. ... Its very stupid and ignorant, and I see that its a big joke, that we thought that we were going to save this country, we were doing the right thing and stuff.

I thought that Trump was going to stay president and they were going to find all this crooked stuff, Rodriguez said. We thought we were being used as a part of a plan to save the country, to save America, save the Constitution, and the election, the integrity.