Actor Nick Searcy is best known for his role on the TV series Justified and, more recently, he starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the western, The Old Way, now streaming on Netflix.
He was also at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and his passion since then is to challenge the narrative that it was a violent insurrection meant to overturn the election of President Joe Biden and install Donald Trump for a second consecutive term.
Hence, he starred last year in Police State, a Dinesh D’Souza documentary largely about the arrests of January 6 “peaceful protesters.” Prior to that he produced his own film with roughly the same theme dubbed Capitol Punishment. Its tagline: “Everything they told you is a lie.”
Now he has made a sequel, Capitol Punishment 2: The War on Truth, aimed at countering other narratives about the events of January 6th. On that day, Searcy said he was “on the peaceful side of the Capitol, near the Supreme Court. I saw people singing songs and waving flags; I didn’t know there was violence until I saw it on TV.”
He added: “I know these are decent Americans who had no intention of violence, and now they’re being treated like serial killers or members of a drug cartel.”
Searcy said his movie was funded by “wealthy people who care about the future of our country, not necessarily conservatives.” He declined to state names or monetary figures.
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