Tucker Carlson Show: w/ Texas Congressional Candidate Ryan Zink (Transcript)

That was what we thought was going to happen, and it turned out to be completely different.

I remember getting in on January 5th, staying with some family in the Upper Marlboro, Maryland area and making our way across. It’s the first time in my mind that I can remember. I think I went to D.C. once when I was younger, but this was very real. It was very, like you would see in the movies. There’s steam pouring out of the sewers the second that we get off the Metro, and there’s already like thousands of people. It’s 4 o’clock in the morning, and there’s already thousands of people over near the Capitol.

So I’m already taking pictures. And this will be relevant later as well, but it’s crazy to step off the Metro that early in the morning. There’s thousands of people already at the Capitol all along headed up towards the Washington Monument where President Trump was going to be speaking.

At the Capitol

That was pretty much where we started the day. Went in there. I saw Diamond and Silk for the first time walking through. And remember, I’m still not very political at this point. I believe that there’s a lot that’s going on with elections that we’re being lied to about, but I don’t see it in the capacity that I see it today. I’m basically there for a free trip with my dad to Washington, D.C., to hang out for a little bit, get some B-roll footage and go home.

I don’t get to go in to where the President is speaking because Secret Service… I have laptop, I have a camera, I have SD cards, I have multiple lenses, I have a tripod. I have all this stuff. And Secret Service is like, “You can’t… we’re not allowing anyone else with bags into this area that we’re going in.” And so I never got to hear Trump speak at all. I had already made my way up to the Capitol.

We stopped and had lunch at a building that I would get to know very well: 333 Constitution Avenue, the courthouse where I was later convicted at. We ate lunch over there and then made our way all the way down to the Capitol. My dad talked, did an interview with the Epic Times. We spent a good portion… we had to go sit down after this, and then made our way over to the east side of the building, where I remained for only a few moments up until everything happened.

The East Side of the Capitol

We sat down, talked to Samoans for Trump, Anti-Communist Party for Trump, just real people who’ve escaped horrors that we see with Communism, talking about things that Trump is doing versus where they came from.

And then we get to where things start rolling for the day. It’s before the objection of Ted Cruz and the representative from Arizona. And we can hear the whole time, on the east side of the building, we hear somebody talking through a megaphone. And they keep telling… and they’re talking to a Capitol Police officer. Well, I would later identify this man as Dunphy.

And they are saying into the microphone that they’re talking to hundreds of people on the east side. “We know that you guys have a right to protest, and we know that you have the permits. We’re talking to our superiors, and we’re going to let you in to go up.” And we’re looking around. We’re like, “What do they mean, go up? Are we going in the building? What are they talking about here?”

So after this, nothing really happens. They keep talking on the bullhorn. We can hear they’re trying to put a phone up to it to where you can hear President Trump speak. And then all the proceedings inside of the building start going as well.

The Eruption

The DOJ has a huge camera that’s on top of the Capitol building that looks down over the east side. And I was standing just kind of over the visitor center to the right-hand side in front of this green light pole, and right to our left, there’s probably, I don’t know, like 300 people in front of us, and we can’t really see what’s going on. And I’m trying to lean out the railing to see what’s happening.

And 400 feet in the air you can tell that there’s pushing and shoving that’s going on down over there. We don’t know why they’re bringing bike racks over to this side. That impenetrable wall fortress that they built around the Capitol was bike racks that were connected together. And so there’s some pushing and shoving that’s going on over here. We can’t really tell what’s going on or who the instigator is.

But at this time, right as soon as all of this happens, we start seeing hundreds of people come this way. And this is as soon as Ted Cruz and them object. I mean it is literally like “Texas objects.”

TUCKER CARLSON: Bang.

RYAN ZINK: January 6th goes off and there’s hundreds of people coming from the right side.

TUCKER CARLSON: Kind of funny that Ted Cruz is at the center of this.

RYAN ZINK: I find it more funny that there are a lot more people who weren’t at that time just based on what we knew. But I do think that it was timed for the objection. I think that the fact that a senator had finally gotten involved with it is the principal point of where they had to do something that day in order to stop more information coming out. Because I mean, the time period between the objection and when the eruption happens is five seconds. Really?

TUCKER CARLSON: Yes.

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TUCKER CARLSON: So what did the eruption look like from your perspective?

RYAN ZINK: So from my perspective, I’m right on the railing. I see a couple hundred people coming this way. They’re already past police officers. They’re inside of the area, which were not properly, you know, they always say there were signs around the Capitol that day. There wasn’t. If you go back and you look at, I hate to say her name, but Pam Hemphill’s video where she’s walking through, she’s behind the police line in front of where we are at the time, and there’s no signs up.

Well, I have a picture of what the sign is actually supposed to look like in order to cordon off that area so that people, the general public who has no idea what this area is in front of them, you know, they’ll claim state of mind that we did because it was an area. But whenever you see police opening barricades, whenever, so there was an officer that testified against me that was waving people through the barricades. I’ll show you the video. And he was waving people through, and then there’s hundreds of people on this side, and I still didn’t go through.

Me and my dad kind of looked at each other, and we were like, what is happening? And I was like, I don’t know. I guess they opened everything up. And then right there, he was like, you don’t think they’re going to let us into the building, do you? And I was like, I wouldn’t think so. I was like, you know, there’s proceedings going on inside. I was like, maybe this is the area that the protests have the permits for.

So we make our way up. I’m talking. I’m saying stuff like, I’m an American. I have the First Amendment. And so I’m saying, you know, we’re storming the Capitol. You know, we’re like, they can’t stop us. And what I’m, you know, the DOJ will tell you that I was talking about Capitol Police, you know, that, oh, these guys can’t stop us. They’re trying to say that I was making that disassociation. But what I’m talking about is the protests, American people finding out the truth of what was going on.

And to be completely honest, I’m overwhelmed. I don’t really have any idea what’s going on inside of the building. Then, you know, how much do you actually know until you get to spend an engrossed amount of time? The last five years that I’ve spent about what goes on, I’ve watched.

TUCKER CARLSON: So many videos from January 6th and I have no idea what’s going on even now. I mean, it’s chaos.

RYAN ZINK: Right.

TUCKER CARLSON: It’s impossible and in the moment to.

RYAN ZINK: Know what’s going on and, you know, to be a very junior journalist. The only thing that I’ve covered at this point is football games for a Big 12 university and a couple basketball games here and there. Wrote some articles for a magazine. I’m doing the journalist thing, but I’m not in school from my injuries.

And then this is when things start to get weird. Okay, so what happens is, and I’ll brush through this part, but this is very critical because I actually did send you the evidence of this stuff last night. So the police stop everybody at the base of the stairs in front of the Columbus doors and then they just open it up. So we’re a couple hundred people back, we can’t really hear what’s going on. And they just open up stairs, turn around and go stand in front of the Columbus door.

So we go up onto the east side porch. Because I’m thinking, I’m like, dude, this is going to be some great footage. That’s like, well, that’s what I keep thinking. I’m like, this is going to be memorable. This is something that people are going to talk about. If I had only known just how much they were going to talk about it.

TUCKER CARLSON: You did underestimate it.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, I mean, police are actively letting people into the area. But it gets worse for my case, because then I go up onto the porch. Well, then the first person that I see, the actual first violence engagement that I saw for the day, the literal tip of the spear, everybody says that it was the west side. It’s not. It’s Hunter Allen Emkey is, as far as I’ve come to know, that he’s an antifa member from California. I videotaped him jump up onto the ledge of the windows next to the Columbus doors and he begins punching and kicking out those windows. Well, there are people up there that are all dressed pretty similar.

The Antifa Connection

TUCKER CARLSON: Now, wait a second, Ryan. Why would an antifa member from California be protesting a stolen election on Trump’s behalf?

RYAN ZINK: That’s a great question and just doesn’t make sense. I got called a conspiracy theorist by my judge for even mentioning this fact. Right. So, you know, I believe that there were people in the crowd that day. I believe that Bobby Powell, rest in peace, Bobby, I believe that he also captured federal agents that day near that window that were telling people to go in the building, but we don’t have any, of course.

TUCKER CARLSON: And tell us who Bobby Powell was.

RYAN ZINK: Bobby Powell was an independent journalist who testified in my case. He was press that was there that day just to take videos. He was never arrested, you know, anything. But he mysteriously, after he started releasing and talking about all of the footage that he had of these federal agents, succumbed to multiple heart attacks and then eventually passed away from one of those.

TUCKER CARLSON: He didn’t kill himself like some of the Capitol Hill police officers.

RYAN ZINK: No, no, he didn’t. Bobby was a Marine. He was a very strong willed man and there’s not a chance that he would have ever taken his own life.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, well, you could say that about others who supposedly kills themselves too. Just a fact. Sorry, I’m sick. I’m sick of this.

RYAN ZINK: I am too. I’m for that, for just for the record, I’m very mentally sound and I have no plans to harm myself after this interview either.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, I used to say that in jest. But it’s, I mean, let’s just, let’s stop pretending. Yeah. So, okay, you saw someone who’s been conclusively identified as an antifa member smash the windows.

RYAN ZINK: Yes. Who’s not been seen since. He got a prison sentence. He has not come to any of the J6 functions that I’m aware of. I don’t know people that know him. J6 is, you know, 1500 plus. Never heard from this dude again.

TUCKER CARLSON: Did he go to prison?

RYAN ZINK: Apparently for four months. I’ve been unable to track down anyone that served time with him or a facility that he went to, like incapacity. Because the Bureau of Prisons won’t comment, you know, on.

TUCKER CARLSON: Oh yeah, they won’t comment because.

RYAN ZINK: Particularly in our.

TUCKER CARLSON: Not our government. Right, yeah, I’m getting that impression. Okay, so he smashed windows. Then what do you do?

RYAN ZINK: I start videoing, man. This is crazy. There’s this dude, he just jumped up and smashed a window. And so at this time, all these similar dressed people, they turn and they start yelling at Capitol police and they’re saying, hey, we’re going to kill you. You’re not taking them. And I start yelling at him. I’m like, leave him alone. The police are just doing their job. He’s breaking the law. Leave him alone. He’s breaking the law.

At that point, it doesn’t matter what I’m there to protest. That’s not why we’re here. We protest stolen election. We use our voice. You know, you can use your voice. What I’ve discovered can carry so, so much farther than any.

TUCKER CARLSON: Much more than your gun. That is real.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, absolutely. And so they knocked his, they knock Hunter off the ledge, take him into custody just like they should. And immediately after this is when I go and I ask a Capitol police officer by the name of Benjamin Fluke, I said, you know, hey, how can we help you? What can we do for you guys? Because we can see they’re outnumbered. There’s people yelling at them. Though I don’t believe that those were Trump supporters. I don’t.

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RYAN ZINK: People dressed in all black. When you go and you look at the video and you hear the voices, you can tell that there’s a different tone with these dudes. And so as I’ve studied footage from other areas of the Capitol over the last five years too, you can kind of see some similarities in the way that people dress. There’s also wristbands that have been identified on certain people too, that we think that that was an identifying marker for different groups that were there to cause problems.

TUCKER CARLSON: So have any of them been identified? Are they all maps?

RYAN ZINK: No.

TUCKER CARLSON: No.

RYAN ZINK: And then, you know, and it really doesn’t help that the Department of Justice was paying, you know, the sedition hunters, $100,000 to use artificial intelligence to identify January 6th that they couldn’t do because it breaks the law. And the way that they’re going out and gathering evidence. So they paid, you know, this independent group of leftist Trump haters to come and identify us, and then they were paying them per arrest on top. But that’s, you know, that’s another area.

TUCKER CARLSON: But they hired antifa bounty hunters to hunt down Trump voters. Yeah, yeah, got it. Okay.

RYAN ZINK: And so, you know, Ray Epps, that whole deal, why did the DOJ protect him when they came after everybody else?

TUCKER CARLSON: Did you see Ray Epps there?

RYAN ZINK: No. I may have just in the periphery when I was walking through the west side to leave later in the afternoon, but I never saw him.

TUCKER CARLSON: I keep stepping on your story. My apologies. So you see the window smash, people flow in the building. You’re taking video. What happens then?

RYAN ZINK: So I asked Benjamin Fluke, well, what can we do to help you? And instead of saying, you need to leave, you’re not supposed to be here, anything like that, he tells me, stay on the porch and take pictures of them. And that’s in my transcripts. He actively admits that not only did he deputize me to stay up there to assist them with people that are getting video of people that are attacking them. He’s not asking me to leave, so I do that.

I stay up there with my dad. My dad gives his business card. He has his congressional cards. He’s where I’m at now. He has a house number. He’s FEC filings. We’re in this. The election’s coming up. We’re running for Congress with him and we give that business card out.

The Ashley Babbitt Shooting

And this is when one of the worst parts of January 6th happens. Shortly after this, we’re up there, I’d say probably about 40 minutes is the total length of my Capitol day, at least being on the porch. Those police officers were talking to them. I’m listening to the radio that one of them has. I misspoke at the time because it was really hard to hear radio traffic. But I’m saying things like, there are people inside of the Capitol, there’s a fire inside. I’m posting all of this on Facebook, and I’m trying to stay neutral from this point forward because basically everything turned on a dime. We went from a protest to what is this?

And so I’m talking to those officers and then Ashley Babbitt is murdered by Michael Byrd. And we can hear the shots inside of the building from where we are. And there’s a video. So all of the Capitol Police officers that testified against me, Officer Fluke, Officer Mooney, and the officer who was seen on film waving people through, I cannot remember his name right now, but they all testified that at no point did the Capitol Police take me and my father behind their police line where they were holding Hunter because we were working with them.

Well, now I have that video in my possession. That camera was not allowed to be viewed before it went to trial. And the video that I sent your team last night is the literal perjury of all three of my federal witnesses in my case that stated that I was not there to assist police at that time and that I was not working with them because there’s an officer that comes over, he separates us from protesters in the gear that I was talking about and says, hey, these guys are with us. He’s running for Congress. This is his son. He’s been helping document if people attack us.

And he says, so they originally think that the shooting is down on the lower level. They don’t know where it is in the building. And so they take us and we go right into the corner of the Columbus doors. Well, all of a sudden the 20,000 pound doors that have to be remotely opened from inside of the United States Capitol by pushing a button open, they open the Columbus doors and there are people that are coming in and out of those doors.

And this is the point of the day where the officer that we’ve been talking to that was never identified by the Department of Justice, they refused to identify this individual, along with the other five or six police officers that were on the porch. I just got the three that testified against me when I had multiple additional witnesses that I could have called that wore a badge that would have said, no, they were helping us.

But at this point is when we see the first remnants of the battle that’s going on either inside of the Capitol, because I don’t necessarily know where this officer came from. I haven’t been able to identify him because they won’t give us the cameras of the porch. And so he comes out, he’s injured. He’s holding his shoulder. He’s got mace all over his face. And dad works in sports medicine, and he just takes one look at him, and he’s like, that guy needs medical help. So dad tries to help him. He declines help, but he has mace all over his eyes. And so I’m reaching through my bag, trying to get out water to let him rinse his eyes out.

Leaving the Capitol

And then at that point, this is the last interaction that we have with pretty much anyone for the day is because at that point, that’s when Muriel Bowser declares that there’s going to be a curfew. That comes in. So we can hear it on the radio of the Capitol Police officer that’s standing there. And so he says, hey, we appreciate all of your help. Things are getting really crazy on the other side. It’d probably be a good idea for y’all to leave. We say, okay, that guy refuses treatment one more time. He’s rinsing his eyes out.

I asked my dad, I was like, hey, I want to put the big lens on. I’m going to stand on this pillar over here, and I want to take pictures inside and see what’s going on. And that’s the first time that day that you can actually see people pushing and shoving with a Capitol Police officer, at least from our perspective. Now, if you have the big, high camera, and you can look over, you can see that there was some in front of us that we couldn’t see. I’m five eight, 200 pounds. I’m not the tallest guy in the world. So I can’t see over a lot of people.

So then we leave. We go back around. I take some pictures by the bike racks, where what I think is blood is on the ground, but I’m not sure. It could have been a spilled drink. It could have been anything where the bike racks were. And we start making our way around. And then I see Jacob Chansley, which we all came to know as the QAnon shaman. I saw him on the steps of the Senate side.

And we make our way around to the west. And this is when it hits. And it’s like, this is going to be talked about forever because the sea of people that were out there, just thousands and thousands of people that are on that side. We have no idea. We’re on the east side sheltered in a tiny little corner. We have no idea the scale of what is happening at the Capitol.

And people always talk about the west side footage and things. They always show the tunnel videos where you see people attacking. Well, the reason that they were attacking that day is because a Capitol or, sorry, a Metro police officer, Lila Morris, had just beaten a woman to death by the name of Roseanne Boyland. And that’s what they were reacting to. And so as we’re making our way around to go get onto the Metro, the closest Metro was directly across the west, back towards the other side. So we made a beeline through the crowd.

TUCKER CARLSON: Are you allowed to beat people to death in this country?

RYAN ZINK: Well, apparently, if you wear a badge in D.C., which is, if you don’t know, across the standard, the Capitol Police and Metro Police, with their combined particularly on the Metro side, is the ninth most violent police force in America.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, of course.

RYAN ZINK: Think about that. Think about all the sheriff’s offices, the police offices around the country. They’re the ninth most violent police force.

TUCKER CARLSON: They always had the highest accidental discharge rate for their handguns, too.

RYAN ZINK: Which, amazing that it didn’t happen that day. So that was my J6 day. Outside of saying things like, we’re storming the Capitol, do you hear us? Words outside of a building. I never went inside the building. I never assaulted anybody. I never broke anything. I was assisting police officers on the porch, yelling at protestors.

TUCKER CARLSON: You never went inside the building?

RYAN ZINK: I never did.

TUCKER CARLSON: Okay, so did you have any worry that you would be arrested for what you didn’t do?

RYAN ZINK: No, because what I thought was going to happen was that we were going to turn over the videos of Hunter Emkey that we had, that we would probably fill out an affidavit and I was kind of expecting a call from maybe Secret Service, FBI, somebody over that time. But what actually happened was later, February 4, 2021, at just after 4:00 a.m., the FBI drives through the front of my house with a 12 foot battering ram.

The FBI Raid

TUCKER CARLSON: Actually, yes. They’re monsters. I just want to say that that’s disgusting to treat you like that.

RYAN ZINK: I agree. A phone call, there’s been…

TUCKER CARLSON: No reform of them at all. And on other channels are just being screamed at for asking questions.

RYAN ZINK: There’s been no accountability across the board from it. And that’s not to say that I don’t support law enforcement in this country.

TUCKER CARLSON: I don’t support that. I don’t care what you call that. I don’t support. That’s the oppression of the population that employs you and pays for this. And you have no right to treat citizens like that. I mean, that is… Sorry, it was part of my lecture. So, you’re in bed, you’re back in Texas?

RYAN ZINK: Yes.

TUCKER CARLSON: Do you live in an apartment house?

RYAN ZINK: I lived in a house at the time.

TUCKER CARLSON: And you’re asleep?

RYAN ZINK: Sound asleep.

TUCKER CARLSON: And what happened? What was your experience?

RYAN ZINK: So I actually don’t hear anything. So I did kind of live in a rough neighborhood. Those around Lubbock? It’s getting close to Avenue Q. It’s a bit on the rough side, so I think my house is…

TUCKER CARLSON: Because you’re a rich guy, you’re a person of privilege? Is that what you’re saying?

RYAN ZINK: Oh, yeah. I was just super loaded. That’s why I’m in this position.

TUCKER CARLSON: So you live in the hood?

RYAN ZINK: Yes, very much so. But it’s a great part of the district, though, too.

TUCKER CARLSON: And it’s just funny. It’s like…

RYAN ZINK: It just has some higher crime rates. And LPD’s done a great job, actually, in recent months, getting that area cleaned up. So it’s getting better. But the people there are still, even my friends and neighbors that were around there, they’re just appalled at the way that I was treated.

TUCKER CARLSON: So you’re asleep. And what do you experience?

RYAN ZINK: My front door flying all the way across the living room and damaging both of my couches. And it kind of lays sideways where the door is blocked. And I just think that my house is being broken into. I have no idea what’s going on. And so I’m, 2A will always be 2A. The Second Amendment is to defend your home, your property, and your country from both enemies, foreign and domestic. And so I’m leaned across the railing with an AR, not knowing that there are federal agents outside until…

TUCKER CARLSON: Come on, why didn’t they just call?

RYAN ZINK: You see, and this is the thing. Because at this point, this is when they’ve made the first announcement over the bullhorn. Ryan Zink, this is the FBI. Come out with your hands up.

TUCKER CARLSON: But why didn’t they just call you and say, report, come downtown?

RYAN ZINK: Because they used a Facebook post that I said, “I’m not coming quietly” on some stuff. I’d seen some of the other arrests. But I’m talking about my voice. I’m a journalist. I’m not some redneck.

TUCKER CARLSON: Who are these Americans doing this?

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. Well, I do. I still believe to this day that there’s foreign interference in 2020 as well, all through the Biden election or term administration.

TUCKER CARLSON: But these, the thugs who ripped your door off the hinges, they’re Americans.

RYAN ZINK: Yes. The FBI.

TUCKER CARLSON: So sad.

RYAN ZINK: But there were multiple agencies that worked. I mean, we’re talking about 60 people in a helicopter.

TUCKER CARLSON: Actually, yes. And you never went inside the building?

RYAN ZINK: They shut down the blocks around my house for fear that I was going to run. Like, where am I going to go? Federal agents in the back.

The Cost of Political Violence

TUCKER CARLSON: This is what happens when you murder Americans. And there’s no, and Lindsey Graham applauds and everyone bipartisan applause for killing Americans. I’m just going to say it. I thought that about the ICE killings. I’m totally opposed to mass migration. It should deport every illegal. I really believe that they’re destroying this country.

However, it’s not a small thing to shoot an American in the throat. It’s just not. And you can’t just blow past it because they treat some liberal lesbian chick that way. They’re going to treat you that way at some point. That’s what I think.

RYAN ZINK: And we have to look at those individually, across the scale. It’s individual actions.

TUCKER CARLSON: Don’t show brutality to Americans. That’s how I feel. Like, why wouldn’t I feel that way?

RYAN ZINK: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: Sorry. I don’t know why. I’m out of control. Okay, so you’ve got an AR. God bless you. And then what happens?

RYAN ZINK: They make the announcement and I dropped it quick because if anyone, if any one of those guys had come around the corner, I wouldn’t be here.

TUCKER CARLSON: No.

RYAN ZINK: You’d be like riddled Swiss cheese. You know, you’d be like the guy.

TUCKER CARLSON: Who predicted 9/11.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: Or you’d be like the guy who showed up at Comet Pizza at the wrong time.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: And he was just shot to death in a traffic stop two weeks ago, as you may have seen. Resisting arrest. Yeah, no, I’m sure they couldn’t wait to kill you. So, wow. So you drop the AR and then you find that it really is federal agents.

Red Dots and Flash Bangs

RYAN ZINK: Yes. And so I’m trying to peek around the corner to see what’s going on because, again, I live in a bad neighborhood. This is a tactic that’s used by people to infiltrate homes. They’ll be like, “Please come out with your hands up.” And it’s actually four dudes that are coming after the rock.

TUCKER CARLSON: Exactly, exactly.

RYAN ZINK: So I can’t really tell. But then that’s when the red dots hit all over me. And that’s when the flash.

TUCKER CARLSON: Actually, the red dots were on your body?

RYAN ZINK: Yes. They were actively going to shoot me. Like, if I had come around the corner with that, what would have happened if I decided not to post up at the back mantle?

TUCKER CARLSON: What would have happened. I would have been quick anyway.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, no, or would it, I mean, like slow bleed out. So I’m taking into custody, I walk out. It’s like, I don’t know, like 12 degrees outside this day, and they will not let me have shoes. I’m standing outside barefoot in jogger pants and like a T-shirt for good 38 minutes.

So as they’re inside of the house, they are flashbanging my dogs repetitively. A six pound Papillon, not even at that time. He’s like three pounds. And a 70 pound chocolate Lab, who’s my bird dog who now has PTSD and he’s damaged. He can’t hunt anymore. He’s completely retired.

TUCKER CARLSON: Do any of these guys go to prison?

RYAN ZINK: No.

TUCKER CARLSON: Every one of them should go to prison for doing this.

RYAN ZINK: I believe that there are people that infiltrated this from Washington D.C., like Michael D. Brown, the lead over my case. I believe that he should be behind bars, no questions asked.

TUCKER CARLSON: But anybody flashbangs your chocolate lab should be in prison. It’s really simple.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, well, and not just that, but they need to pay for the damages that it’s caused to our family. And I’ll get into that some later, very briefly, but it’s not just that. It’s the way that they perpetrated this whole thing.

Like they broke every door in my house. Unlocked doors, the bathroom door broken, bedroom door broken, smashed open for no reason. They stole things from my coin collection. I’m still missing Roman coins. All of my gold coins are gone. There’s like a couple hundred dollars missing from my wallet. Federal agents doing this. How does that.

TUCKER CARLSON: You know, I wouldn’t judge. I’m not leaving the United States, period. I’m going to die here. But I wouldn’t judge you if you said, “I’m out. I’m going to El Salvador. I’m going to a civilized country.”

RYAN ZINK: I’m not.

TUCKER CARLSON: Clearly you’re not, and I respect that. But I also wouldn’t judge you if you said, “I can’t live in a place like this. This is too scary.”

Diesel Therapy Begins

RYAN ZINK: I’m not. I’m here for the long run. I’m Texan by birth. We’re going to fight. I promise.

So all that happens, I wound up, I go to Lubbock County Jail. As I’m leaving, so they try to unlock my phone. They didn’t have a warrant for my phone at first. They’re trying to unlock it with my face. Michael Brown is, Michael D. Brown, there’s a difference in those characters. Not much in morality causes, though.

But they tell me, “Do you know why we’re here?” And I’m like, “I’m guessing this has something to do with the Capitol. I’m not saying anything else. You’re not my friends,” blah, blah.

So the Lubbock police officer from LPD pulls over after I’m taken into custody, shuts off all of his cameras, body camera, video camera, everything, and says, “We wanted to do this a different way. What happened to you today? We were threatened that if we interfered in any way, that they would strip our badge and take us right down to the jail with you. Because you had multiple people from this department that know you, that told them all you have to do is make a phone call.”

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah.

RYAN ZINK: And so that happens.

TUCKER CARLSON: Force this.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, so that happens. So the next couple weeks, I’m at Lubbock County Jail there. Everyone was very nice there, except for this one super lesbian chick that was there. There’s always in a bad mood. And I still talk to some of these corrections officers that I see them, and I pass them on the street now that my case has been dismissed and I have my pardon.

They’re always like, “It was really crazy for us to see you there because it was obvious that you didn’t belong.”

And so this is where the diesel therapy starts. So this is a common tactic. All J6ers went through this in some form or another. So first I went to Eden, Texas, had an impromptu interrogation as a terrorist, where I was physically removed from the rest of the population, taken into a separate building, placed into a room with one man, who I later found out was the intake coordinator of that facility. I cannot remember his name right now. He’s in the lawsuit, so we’ll be seeing more about that to come.

But he brings me in, does an impromptu interrogation, says that he knows that I’m a terrorist, that I’m working with other people and stuff.

TUCKER CARLSON: Who is this guy?

RYAN ZINK: He just works for the facility. It’s a Core Civic facility. It’s a private institution. That he just felt like he was going to be like Captain Save America or something. Obvious super Democrat.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah. Private prisons. Good idea. Yeah, thank you. Whoever thought that up. Yeah, good plan.

RYAN ZINK: Not to mention that I do believe in strong punishments for criminals. I’m sure I’m not, I think that there’s gross negligence on a lot of judges for the sentences that they put on people. But when you look at the prison system, it’s a monopoly. It’s all the same people that are making all the money keeping Americans behind bars and then the grievance processes and things like that.

There’s a lot that needs to be done for prison reform, just for conditions. And you’ll see that in the next part of this segment. Like, by the time that I get to Washington, D.C., I’ve already seen, not at Lubbock County, nothing happened there, but at some of the other facilities, like federal transfer, like Core Civic.

You see dudes in there that are being forced to put lipstick on with M&M’s, like green M&M’s. They have to dunk them in water and hold somebody’s pocket. And this is all in plain view of staff.

TUCKER CARLSON: Why are they doing that? What does that mean?

RYAN ZINK: Because they’re owned by somebody in there. They’re being raped.

TUCKER CARLSON: How long were you behind bars?

RYAN ZINK: So, from, so 84 days is about what I did for the whole thing. I’m one of the lucky J6ers for all that.

TUCKER CARLSON: Doesn’t seem lucky to me for never going inside the building, never breaking.

Life in D.C. Detention

RYAN ZINK: But when you look at some of the other people, Enrique Tarrio, Ryan Samsel, some of the conditions, I had it bad when I got to D.C., but I got to be out. I got to be with my family. I got to meet with my attorneys. I didn’t have to spend two, three, four years in solitary confinement being driven crazy.

My extent was just to D.C. and then I had to go to a federal prison in Arizona, which, that’s a whole other thing in itself right there. My worst part of my journey was, well, it will always be the two miscarriages, but. Excuse me.

TUCKER CARLSON: I’m sorry.

RYAN ZINK: It’s hard. I wasn’t going to get emotional today, America.

TUCKER CARLSON: No, it’s all right.

RYAN ZINK: But when I got to the facility, I was a J6er. This is in C2B. This is the original pods. This whole facility in Washington, D.C. is covered in mold. This place was condemned and then reopened for use due to compiling crime that was going on.

And I’d like to remind everybody that the Trump administration at the end arrested 67 or 62, I think, people. And then by the six month mark, Joe Biden’s administration had arrested well over 600 people at that point. So I’m one of the first people to get arrested for all of this and what is given to all of these different agencies across the region, everyone.

And what they actually told people in person, they were still talking about Brian Sicknick and his death and how J6ers beat him to death or something like that, which he died from natural causes. We saw that. We’ve seen the autopsy report. They told cops at the scene that I had murdered a police officer. Of course, these guys are coming slamming. None of that’s in the official paperwork, though. This is just what I know from doing my own research and coming back and talking to people.

So by the time that I get to D.C., well, D.C. is obviously a Democratic district. All of the people that work at this jail are not, at least on the intake side, a majority of them, they’re not from this country. They’re all foreigners. So when we get there, the abuse starts. I’ve got, I can show you scars on my wrist from where they dug handcuffs into me until I bled. I show these everywhere I go.

TUCKER CARLSON: They’re foreigners?

RYAN ZINK: Yes. I believe most of them are from Somalia, at least the intake crew. The people that are actually. What? Yes. At that facility when I was there, I would say probably 70% of that staff was foreigners.

TUCKER CARLSON: Somalis.

RYAN ZINK: Yep. Or a region close by, just according to the dialect that I looked into.

TUCKER CARLSON: So whites are in serious trouble in this country. They’re not going to be treated well. Sorry.

RYAN ZINK: Well, I think anybody don’t have to.

TUCKER CARLSON: Agree with that, but anybody who goes.

RYAN ZINK: Against the status quo is not going to get treated well. I don’t think it matters what color you are.

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, there’s just so much hatred toward people on the basis of their skin color that, yes, there is not good.

RYAN ZINK: Well, and that’s a problem in my district, too. We have candidates that only work with one particular style of people, but they’ll take money from everybody. There’s a track record of that, but I’ll get into that later.

So when I get to D.C., I’m segregated from the rest of the people that are there that are just being transferred. I think there was one guy was there for murder, and there’s another guy for burglary of habilitation, something like that. And I’m handed a bag of water and a moldy ham sandwich. That’s my welcome to D.C. So I haven’t eaten. I’ve been getting diesel therapy. I was in Oklahoma City.

TUCKER CARLSON: Diesel therapy.

The Journey Through the System

RYAN ZINK: That’s where they just, my family had no idea where I was. They wouldn’t let attorneys know that you were being transferred. They would just move you from place to place to place. So I went from Lovett to Eden, Texas, to the Core Civic facility. Then I was taken to Midland, Texas. But we did a big round road trip all the way up to Anton, Texas, then back down. Then I went over to Midland. I got on Conair. I actually flew on the big Con Air plane.

And I flew from Midland to Oklahoma City. Then I went to the Federal Sorting center just outside of Oklahoma City. And then I was also putting onto a smaller plane. I was flown to either somewhere in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. And then we did a road trip where they didn’t allow us to stop, period, until we got to the jail. They stopped on the side of the road to relieve themselves, but they wouldn’t let us out to do it.

TUCKER CARLSON: And were you handcuffed during this trial the entire time?

RYAN ZINK: Shackles, handcuffs, and a box over the top.

TUCKER CARLSON: Are you serious?

RYAN ZINK: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: In the vehicle you’re shackled in the van?

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. For this entire, however many hours that we drove. And remind you, I don’t know where I am. I still don’t know what airport we landed at to be able to get an accurate time description.

TUCKER CARLSON: What were the other guys like who were traveling with you?

RYAN ZINK: One of them was a J6er. I mean, they were some, a little rowdy. I mean, it’s just prison, jail. They’ve, talking crap like everything else, but pretty relaxed, I’d say, for the most part, at least from what I, up until that point. I was still new to the whole being arrested scene. So I didn’t really know what rowdy meant then.

But then, so we finally get there, give them a moldy ham sandwich. And then it takes hours to get processed. So they come in, they take a picture of your iris, of your eye. Sorry. And get your fingerprints, get everything done. If you said anything to them, they’re either going to push you, shove your head into something. They’re very, very aggressive.

And then the reason that I have the scars on my wrist from the handcuffs is because I asked this particular gentleman where he wanted me to put my clothes, and he told me, “Shut the f* up. Do what he says.” And then as soon as that happened, I was like, okay, here or there, basically. And he just was like, just turn around. And so he put cuffs on me, taking me all the way through. I still, there’s just, there’s still a lot of trauma from this that I sort through. So I just.

TUCKER CARLSON: This is such a nightmare. I can’t even, I’m listening to you thinking, how would I handle this? I don’t know.

RYAN ZINK: Well, you just, I mean, the only way that I handled this was my faith in Jesus. I mean, I’ll just be completely upfront honest about.

TUCKER CARLSON: Were you a Christian when it started?

Faith in the Darkest Hour

RYAN ZINK: Absolutely, I was a Christian. I wasn’t living my life the way I was supposed to. But I can definitely tell you that this woke me up to where, it’s, and I’ll get into that. You’ll see the exact moment here in just a minute, too.

But I make it to the first cell, and the first cell that I’m introduced to at this facility has a quarter inch of urine and feces on the ground. And there’s no running water in this cell. Eventually they turn the water on to where it was there, but we’re talking two days later. So I’m in here. I’m in this cell that’s covered in mold, urine and feces. Another person’s urine and feces, not mine, by the way.

TUCKER CARLSON: This is in Washington, D.C.

RYAN ZINK: This is in Washington, D.C. in C2B. The first pod that I was putting, I think it was six to the right. If you go to the far left of when you walk into there.

TUCKER CARLSON: What are we doing? I don’t understand. What is this country doing?

RYAN ZINK: I don’t either. And it gets worse. It gets a lot worse from there. And so at this point in time, this is when I’m starting to complain. I’m saying, can you get me a plunger? Can I have a mop? Can I have anything? Denied, denied, denied, denied, denied. You’re not letting me out. I haven’t showered, it’s been three days. Been there, no shower at this point. It’s really been five days because I haven’t showered since I left the sorting center in Oklahoma. Okay. So I had to do a whole flight plus a drive to get there.

At this point I haven’t really eaten anything. I’m getting food at this for these couple of first days that I’m there. And finally I get an attorney call and I had some other attorneys that they’re Democrats, they decided not to continue with my case because I refused the plea deal. I wouldn’t take it. I sent you a copy of that as well. So you can see the verbiage and what the government wanted me to admit to in order to receive probation versus a 20 year felony.

And so I complained to my attorney and she calls the facility and says, we want to do a conditions check. So they moved me all the way to the end. I’m at the very end cell of the block. And this made them very mad. Very, very mad. As a matter of fact, I only got to come out to shower twice during this point. And one of them is super critical.

Poisoned and Isolated

So I’m however many weeks that I’m at this facility and this is when they started putting bleach in my food or Windex, any type of chemical that was in there. I never had another meal that if I got to eat, didn’t have some kind of chemical in it because I had complained about the facility and obviously I got somebody in trouble. But I still don’t know who that is to this day because they won’t open records for J6ers.

So I never, I asked for a Bible every single day that I was there. Which is why I used to, I carry mine with me everywhere I go. Brought here to studio today, I was allowed to have a book. So this is the only thing that I had in solitary confinement the entire time that I was there. It was an 8th grade level reading book about a slave owner who falls in love with a slave, cheats on his wife and runs away to the north with her. Perfect reading for an eighth grade school, I guess, in Washington D.C.

And so I’m sitting in my cell, I’m losing lots of weight. I don’t have a cup to drink out of. I’m drinking out of the bag that my soap came in. I’m getting, I’m very sick. I’m rinsing out rice and trying to rinse off. They would give us boiled eggs if, and then when they would deliver my food, they would bring it in the little styrofoam things too. And sometimes there would just not be anything in there. So I would go for days on end without eating. Or I would have rice and a piece of ham that’s completely soaked in bleach that I have to stick inside of my socks and start wringing it out just to be able to have some sustenance.

And I’m having all kinds of stomach issues. I’m losing weight very, very, very rapidly at this point and I’m getting very sick. Well then one day they finally, they let me out for a shower and of course somebody goes in my cell and I’m thinking, oh, they’re probably just doing an inspection or something like that.

Well, what had actually happened was, is they tried to kill me. They went in and they placed raw pieces of chicken inside of my waterline to where it would, I would turn on the faucet and the water would come out and it would go past the raw pieces of chicken. And I didn’t figure this out for I don’t really know when, how many days it was because I had no sense of time because I didn’t have a tablet, I didn’t have anything that other prisoners were allowed to be afforded because I was all the way at the end.

And the only way that I knew this was because I was drinking out of that bag that my soap came in and a little piece fell out and I was able to stick my toothbrush, my little government issued 2 inch toothbrush up inside of there and knock all of that chicken out. And there were three pieces about this big inside of there.

And mind you, I went in, like I’m, since I got out of prison, obviously I’ve been eating a little bit, but I went in at 180. I came out at 130 pounds.

TUCKER CARLSON: You lost 50 pounds.

RYAN ZINK: 50 pounds in custody in Washington D.C. When you consider stress, not eating, just the overwhelming amount of stress, having nosebleeds all the time from the chemicals that are in my food, throwing up all the time because my stomach hurts and I don’t have anything to keep it down. Being denied medical at all, not never allowed to have a medical form, never allowed to have a grievance form, nothing.

We were isolated, alone, left there to die. I thought I was going to die. As I said before you now, I thought there was a point in time where I was going to die. I was looking out the window of the cemetery. There’s a cemetery that goes around this building on the backside. And I would watch people. It was the only thing I had, because I only had that one book about a slave that I slid back out under the door so somebody else could have something to do.

And I would watch people walk their dogs through the cemetery. And I looked out there and I was like, I’m going to die in here. And this is probably where I’m going to go, and my family’s not going to know what happened to me.

TUCKER CARLSON: And.

Divine Intervention

RYAN ZINK: By the grace of God, he came into the cell with me while I’m praying. God, what did I do to deserve this? I thought I stood for something that day. I didn’t hurt anybody. I didn’t damage anything. I didn’t do anything that would really make me deserve this. Why am I here?

And God said very clearly, “I know the path that I have for you. You’ll be fine. You’re going to get out of this. I’ll be right there with you. Stay where I put you. Stay where I put you.”

TUCKER CARLSON: Did you believe him?

RYAN ZINK: It was hard to at the time, but seeing the progression of where everything has gone. Oh, Tucker, he was there. He was there the whole time, and he never left me, period. And he’ll never leave anybody that believes in him. No matter where you’re at, I promise he’ll be in the fire with you. I promise he’ll be there, man.

I would get out four days later. The video of me protecting police officers on the east porch would get to Judge Boasberg, and he would release me. And I was one of the first ones to get out out of all this. And that’s when the fight began. I was looking at decades in prison. Decades. Decades in prison.

TUCKER CARLSON: I just want to say again that no one who did this has ever been punished that I know of.

RYAN ZINK: No, they haven’t.

TUCKER CARLSON: I don’t understand how if Republicans have all three branches of government, have the Congress, both chambers, and the executive branch. I don’t understand how no one’s been punished.

RYAN ZINK: Well, I can tell you it’s because there’s a division that’s up there. A third of the people want J6ers to go to prison forever. A third of the people just want J6 to disappear. And the other third don’t care. They’re too focused on everything else.

TUCKER CARLSON: We’re all going to have to answer for what we do.

RYAN ZINK: That’s true. Yeah, that’s true. Very much so. So that’s basically the worst part besides the miscarriages.

The Personal Toll

TUCKER CARLSON: What did you mean when you said the miscarriages?

RYAN ZINK: So my wife and I, we’ve had two miscarriages during this entire process of me being arrested and then the conviction was up to that point. And now we have one daughter, another one on the way. Bless you, God. So it’s just crazy to me that I would have a four year old, a three year old, an 18 month old, and then one more on the way right now with our other daughter that’s expected in April.

And I just, they’re the reason that I fight, because I have to leave something behind for them. And then so we would go through this whole process of going back and forth to trial, but the imminent peace that just reigned over me from that point. It’s one of the things that, yeah, it was difficult getting convicted in D.C., but 14 Democrats, two Democrat prosecutors.

I have three federal witnesses that I can now prove perjured themselves in their testimony. I had 300 Brady violations. They refused to turn over 300 points of evidence from my camera, cell phone and SD cards that I took for pictures on the day. All the way up into to the trial, they were still saying that I had assaulted police officers, gone into the building and was just running like ruckus that day. So we got those dismissed.

I was September 23rd, I was convicted of the obstruction felony 1512, that was overturned at the Supreme Court. I was put on stay and a motion to stay until the Supreme Court ruled on that. And then when we got to sentencing, I was only convicted of the two misdemeanors.

And there’s a very critical aspect. I sent you all the picture last night of what it was supposed to be posted outside. Well, John Nassif, another J6er, just got his. The Supreme Court didn’t actually hear the case, but they made a ruling on it that said that the First Amendment application ends the second a person crosses the threshold of the United States Capitol.

So if that’s the case and they made the ruling on his that the First Amendment ends, I never crossed the threshold. So we’ll see what the future holds for my lawsuits against the federal government.

TUCKER CARLSON: So when were you convicted?

RYAN ZINK: September 23rd.

TUCKER CARLSON: So I mean, that, this is basically just like, consumed your life for years.

RYAN ZINK: Years. Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

TUCKER CARLSON: I mean, how do you have a job during this? Like, what are you doing with your life when you’re just…

RYAN ZINK: So I’m still active in safety. Like, I can get, I work in safety right now. I’m very safety. So I am a safety coordinator. So I look at what people are doing when they work and decide, I mean, I have a boss, so it’s like…

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, no, I just, I didn’t mean specifically who do you work for, but, like, what. So you, like, go into a work site and assess.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, and I do audits and I watch behavioral mechanisms to see if ergonomically there’s something that we could change to stop somebody from getting hurt. Is there a process that we can change? Are there administrative controls? Are there, like, can we put a guard to prevent somebody from sticking their hand inside of here?

And then I was also at, at some of the harshest times, so I was actually working. I have no problem trashing them. I was working for Bayer Crop Science as their safety director for the research and development department and working with cotton, all these different stuff that’s relevant to my area where I live. And they terminated me when I got convicted. I told them I’m going on appeal.

Fired by Bayer

TUCKER CARLSON: Why’d they fire you for getting convicted? Bayer’s very liberal.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. Oh, yeah. So they, it just, that was one of the things I was working…

TUCKER CARLSON: So Bayer being the German pharma company.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. Oh, yeah. So they, it just, that was one of the things I was working.

TUCKER CARLSON: How liberal are they?

RYAN ZINK: Very.

TUCKER CARLSON: Like, that isn’t how liberal. That sounds like, authoritarian kind of.

RYAN ZINK: Well, when you see all the rest of the stuff that they do around the globe, it’s very easy to see which side they lean to. Like, the red tape, bureaucratic control of what they’re spraying, the secrecy behind it. I mean, agents that are harming farmers. Like, we have all the chemicals that they spray are causing health issues amongst farmers. It’s not just here.

TUCKER CARLSON: This is like a global aspect, but Bayer is doing that.

RYAN ZINK: And, yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: So, I mean, Zyklon B.

RYAN ZINK: What does the general public actually know about what’s being sprayed? And then all of that paperwork and everything is bound up, and there’s only a select group of people that can know what’s being sprayed up on an airplane 500 yards from your house, on land that they’re leasing.

There’s some real issues and some transparency issues that need to be handled. And that’s one of the things that I hope to go forward with in Congress if elected.

TUCKER CARLSON: So you’re saying chemtrails are not just a conspiracy theory?

RYAN ZINK: I would, well, I mean, when you look at that, it’s, I would believe that chemtrails…

TUCKER CARLSON: Real. They’ve admitted it’s real, but it’s just funny after.

RYAN ZINK: And so it’s cloud seeding. I mean, we literally have companies that are stating that they’ve been successful at putting manufactured rain in our area. Of course.

TUCKER CARLSON: No, of course that’s true around the world. But which, if it’s successful, I think. Well, they also said for four years that J6 was totally organic. It was not a false flag. And now we know it was a false flag.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. And there’s documents that came out this week that, even Christopher Wray, who, by the way, I forgot a part. So when I was arrested, he flew to Lubbock and gave the police chief of Lubbock an award. And then he became smashing all your doors and terrible. I mean, the feds did that.

Impact on Family

TUCKER CARLSON: So what was the effect on your family, on your wife, for example?

RYAN ZINK: We had a lot of problems. I think it was very scary, the fact that, so my wife and I, we’ve never had a wedding because we couldn’t. I didn’t want them to label her as a domestic terrorist. If you go in and look at the Quiet Skies program and also the way that the Patriot Act is allowed to move throughout communities, the Patriot Act, I believe, is one of the most unconstitutional acts that was ever passed after 9/11.

They’re literally able to quantify you. So I was labeled as a white Christian nationalist and then a domestic terrorist. So, like, this is the first flight.

TUCKER CARLSON: You were labeled as white and Christian, huh?

RYAN ZINK: Yes. Yes. So this is the first flight that I’ve had that doesn’t have the four S’s at the bottom of it since February 4, 2021. This flight here to where I didn’t get stopped at every single gate that I went through for never even going into the building.

And going back to the whole work thing, I do have to say that I did travel all across the state of Texas and speak. I would do speaking engagements too where I would talk about J6. The Trump trailer was gifted to me by one of the GOP chairs in Amarillo. And I was selling Trump merchandise all across the state of Texas at events, 4th of July, any place that I could find that I could post up, all while running for Congress in the last term as well.

While I’m going through this because no representation, there were only two people that actually stood up for me out of all the offices that I called, including Jody Arrington, the current Budget Committee chairman and congressman for my district that’s retiring. He refused to help the two people.

TUCKER CARLSON: Why?

RYAN ZINK: Well, again, a third of them want us to go to prison forever. A third of them wanted us to disappear, and the other third don’t care.

TUCKER CARLSON: And did you ever speak to Jody Arrington face to face?

RYAN ZINK: Face to face. Showed him everything that I’ve given you.

TUCKER CARLSON: What did he say?

RYAN ZINK: Nothing. Said that he wasn’t getting involved. Nothing.

TUCKER CARLSON: We’re all going to have to answer for how we live.

RYAN ZINK: We are. But I do have to give shout out to the two people that did. I disagree with some of the stuff that’s happened. Policies are indifferent, but I have to give credibility where credibility is due. Dustin Burroughs, the Speaker of the House for the state of Texas, wrote a letter to the judge. And good for him.

George Santos, of course, former Congressman George Santos wrote it in. And I love George. I talk to him pretty regularly. I disagree with the way that some of the stuff with him was handled.

The Few Who Helped

TUCKER CARLSON: I never understood why they, George Santos, who’s got a rank at the very bottom of the ranking of threats to national security, why George Santos went to prison. He did time in prison also, as you know. Why do they hate George Santos so much? By the way, anyone who knows George Santos, impossible to hate the guy.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah, he’s very nice.

TUCKER CARLSON: Oh, yeah, he’s amazing. But just, and I don’t agree with him on everything either, but I don’t need to. He’s a decent man. He’s a nice man, but I think it’s stuff like that that got him.

RYAN ZINK: Well, and he, I mean, he brought me into his office. His staff was very, very nice to me, of course, and he looked through everything, of course. And anything that I thought was in his power to help, it wasn’t enough. Like, the GOP chairs in a couple of different counties wrote some letters, but actual elected officials, that’s it. And I called every office in the state of Texas.

TUCKER CARLSON: What about your governor?

RYAN ZINK: Abbott doesn’t care.

TUCKER CARLSON: What about Senator Ted Cruz?

RYAN ZINK: Cruz’s office wouldn’t respond.

TUCKER CARLSON: They wouldn’t respond.

RYAN ZINK: I couldn’t even get a call back. Nothing.

TUCKER CARLSON: You should have told him you’re Israeli. Oh, he’d show up at your house. Of course he does. For money. But, like, we…

RYAN ZINK: We got multiple phone calls from unavailable numbers that said, if your dad drops out of the race, we’ll drop the charges. Like, we’ll give you $200,000 to drop and take the plea deal. Like, I got phone calls all through this.

TUCKER CARLSON: Was your dad arrested?

RYAN ZINK: No.

TUCKER CARLSON: Interesting.

RYAN ZINK: Well, and I mean, that’s one of the things that it’s like, why did they target me? Was because I wasn’t a Republican congressional candidate. I was just there. And poor dad.

TUCKER CARLSON: He must have felt such guilt.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. Yeah. No, he did. But at the end of the day, it’s not his fault.

TUCKER CARLSON: No, of course it’s not his fault.

RYAN ZINK: But he does, and he gets real emotional about it sometimes. But the thing is, is that we never stopped to fight. We never stopped. All this did was make me mad. The things that I’ve been through. All this did was prove that our government has too much power. All this does is prove that the people of the United States of America have had their constitutional rights whittled away from them one vote at a time in a room of 435 people that then goes up to the Senate, gets signed off on. That’s where we’re at.

Because I believe that we’re fully in a spiritual battle for the United States of America, and not just for that, for our world. And that’s one of the biggest parts of my message of why I want to run for Congress is not just what I’ve been through, which was a nightmare, but it was who stood with me while I was in the fire. And that’s Jesus Christ. That’s my faith.

There are three books that built this nation. The Bible, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. And they all three play off of each other. And that is my platform, because the United States was designed to be run underneath the men who have the respect for the Bible. And if you don’t have that, then your oath means nothing.

TUCKER CARLSON: That’s right.

The Problem with Unelected Officials

RYAN ZINK: Any oath that somebody takes to this country and some of the oaths in Washington D.C., I don’t think they’re valid either. When you look at Jeb Boasberg, a Skull and Bones member, there’s lots of things with him that are just ridiculous. That’s my judge. And if you don’t know who that judge is, that’s the one that’s trying to make President Trump bring back the 127 Venezuelans who were put on a plane and he tried to make the plane turn back around.

This is an unelected official trying to dictate out of a district of the United States of America trying to dictate exactly what a president can do, what the Supreme Court can do, what you can do. And then he’s destroying lives. He’s the Chief Judge in D.C. and I believe that he’s responsible because even at trial, he denied me a defense of the First Amendment, allowed 300 Brady violations, witnesses to lie.

I’ll give you an example of one of the jurors that I had. So one of the people that was approved for jury in my trial was a Democrat leader for I think it was the Netherlands who literally stated, when he came, he was like, “I don’t think that I can sit for this case because I believe that everyone that was at the Capitol that day is a terrorist.” And James Boasberg was like, “Well, what we’re talking about specifically is this defendant. Have you seen anybody or anything about him that would lead you to believe that you couldn’t be fair and partisan?” And he said, “Well, I guess not.” And they said, “Great, we’ll see you at 4 o’clock for selection.”

This is in my transcripts. That’s the kind of fairness that we had. Fourteen Democrats, one of them cared so little about my life, he fell asleep and then never showed back up after the third day.

TUCKER CARLSON: It’s not a jury if you’re peers. The other thing I noticed is that people believe whatever they’re told by the media.

The Enemy of the People

RYAN ZINK: Well, absolutely. And I really do think that mainstream leftist leaning media is the true enemy of the people of the United States because you can still tell a lie while telling a portion of the truth. If you leave out any part that’s absolutely relevantly critical, you can completely spin a story while it’s true what they’re saying. For as far as libel slander goes, those probably don’t apply defamation because one portion of it is true. They’ll be fine in a courtroom, but we don’t have judges that are going after them for the way that they portray things. And I think that there should be accountability in media. But how do we do that?

TUCKER CARLSON: Did anyone cover, did any media organization cover J6 fairly, do you think? Or was it all?

RYAN ZINK: Jen Phillips from Lubbock gave me a fair shot. I think that Manny from Abilene gave me a fair shot.

TUCKER CARLSON: That’s it.

RYAN ZINK: I mean, as far as the leftist lean, like NBC, ABC affiliates, now the Epic Times, all the people that I talked to along the way, Diamond and Silk, all the shows that I’ve been on, they’ve been very fair, ask some hard questions, things that people wanted to know. And I think that’s fine. I think that’s great banter.

But then you look back at what was done to me this last week. I was at a forum. KCBD comes in, they do an interview with me, and instead of actually showing, so I’ve already filed an appeal and my case has been dismissed. So not only did I go through all of this, but my case is now dismissed and I’m pardoned by the President. So instead of stating all of the facts, they just said, put up a video of me talking about the District and then said, “Jake was convicted of crimes in September of 2023,” even despite the fact that none of those are relevant anymore, that I’ve gone through this all.

TUCKER CARLSON: Have your gun rights been restored?

RYAN ZINK: Yes. Yes, they have. So and I use them, and I encourage everybody to have them. And everywhere that I go, I carry. And I think every American should, too. I think you should be given two things at birth. A Bible and a gun.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yep.

RYAN ZINK: And learn to use them both accordingly because they will be the biggest weapons that you need to fight everything in this world, particularly more so on the Bible. But now I’m running again, so why are.

TUCKER CARLSON: Okay, so, first of all, thank you for recounting that.

RYAN ZINK: Appreciate it.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, man, it was an emotional.

RYAN ZINK: It is, man. I try not to, but man, it’s so hard.

TUCKER CARLSON: Oh, it made me emotional. Okay. Why are you running for Congress?

Running for Congress

RYAN ZINK: I want to make sure that West Texas stays away from Washington, D.C. politics and Austin, Texas politics. We have a great thing in our district, and we have lots of issues that need to be looked at sincerely. And we cannot have somebody who is not willing to speak up in the fight for our country.

Representation in our area has always been very lax on what they’ll say, and I think that we need a strong front. I think that I’ve been vetted out. I refuse to take a plea deal. I refuse to bend the knee. So I feel like I’ve already been vetted. You can tell a lot about a person who has faced the Giants and came out on the other side and kept moving.

And I believe that I would do a lot of good for the district because we’re in a spiritual battle and I’ve become so close in my faith. I have a lot of support for my community. I’ve never actually met a person that has condemned me for what happened. Once they’ve seen everything that I was able to show them, I don’t.

TUCKER CARLSON: I don’t know what they would condemn you for.

RYAN ZINK: I don’t. Well, you’d be surprised. I mean, there’s some people you’re just never going to reach. I mean, it’s like you can see it on Facebook posts, Twitter posts, which I don’t even have a congressional Facebook page right now because they seized it again.

TUCKER CARLSON: Who did?

RYAN ZINK: Facebook.

TUCKER CARLSON: Why?

RYAN ZINK: They took it down because I am not. Real disingenuous behavior.

TUCKER CARLSON: I’m totally confused. When did Facebook take this down?

RYAN ZINK: Like, five days ago. So they seized that?

TUCKER CARLSON: They took down your congressional Facebook page?

RYAN ZINK: Yes.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yes. Okay.

RYAN ZINK: For disingenuous behavior.

TUCKER CARLSON: Disingenuous. Yeah.

Facebook Censorship

RYAN ZINK: They’re basically saying that I’m not who I say that I am, even though I am a congressional candidate. They keep seizing it. And I can scroll through my phone. I got 50 different examples. I’m actually filing charges with the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office over this. I’m not really sure what’s going to be able to be done about this because we saw Cara Castronuova fight her case against Facebook and I think she spent a couple million dollars and lost.

But this is one of those sayings where a left leaning liberal ally, he’s donated $500 million to Democrats speaking specifically about Mark Zuckerberg. And then they have the right to deny my voters my opinion just because they can say that I’m disingenuous.

TUCKER CARLSON: But did you do something to trigger this?

RYAN ZINK: There’s only two posts on there. One was about abortion. I tried to post something about abortion because I believe that life begins at conception.

TUCKER CARLSON: Obviously, it does.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. I will never vote for anything that would promote abortion in America. Abortion is murder.

TUCKER CARLSON: Of course it is. And everyone knows that, by the way.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. And that was one of the things that they just absolutely would not let me post. And then the day after that, they seized it.

TUCKER CARLSON: Oh, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want anything to get in the way of human sacrifice.

RYAN ZINK: I don’t know if that’s his stance, but from the people he hangs out with, I think that that could be a real possibility. Yeah, I think that’s real. I think most of what they’re.

TUCKER CARLSON: So you’re running for Congress. I don’t think I’ve heard a story of someone mistreated by the government like the one you just told in a long time. That’s an unbelievable story. And then you want to participate. You don’t become a revolutionary. You’re not stockpiling C4. You’re like, “I’m going to go to Washington and change the system within the structures that our forefathers created.” You’re doing the right thing. And Zuckerberg’s like, “Yeah, I don’t like your position on abortion. You can’t talk in public anymore.” What do you do about that? Who do you appeal to?

RYAN ZINK: X. That’s where I go to. Ryan Z for Congress is my page on there. I’ve never once been taken down. I’ve never had anything. And I’ve posted some real doozies. You just, you have to go where the freedom is in this country. And so X, independent shows to get the truth out.

TUCKER CARLSON: But there’s no one you can call if Facebook takes you down?

RYAN ZINK: Nope, there’s not. There’s not a phone number. There’s nothing. You have to go through the appeals process and actually, they haven’t even given me an appeal process to get it back. They just seized it. Took it from me.

TUCKER CARLSON: I sat across from Mark Zuckerberg at the presidential inauguration. Were you there? Were you invited?

RYAN ZINK: No, I was not.

TUCKER CARLSON: Okay. He was. So just for the record.

The Dangers of Social Media Data Collection

RYAN ZINK: Interesting. Well, I can tell you why. I can tell you why I think is because a majority of the J6 Facebook profiles were surrendered voluntarily. They didn’t even have to get a warrant on a majority of them. Now, there were warrants that were issued. Some of them actually came later. But the things that people post that are now public information, three letter agencies can take that and they can do compression files on it. And that’s how they were like labeling people and rounding people up.

Yeah, people have no idea what they’re agreeing to when they click that box. They just want the Facebook account, they want to be able to connect to Chad from Billings, Montana, they went to high school with, but they don’t see the danger that’s behind what they’re actually agreeing to. That is perfectly legal because it’s a private company. And that’s part of the issue. That’s some of the things that I want to change when I get there. Not just there’s a lot of stuff about my district that I like to cover. But there’s a lot of protections that Americans voluntarily give up that they should be made aware of.

It should literally be a checkbox that says, “Do you, are you aware that any photo that you post on here is compiled into an AI drive to help identify you?” That’s something that should be talked about. And it’s very clearly in a long summation of wording, you’re agreeing to that. And it’s there and it’s real. And this is a very clear and present danger.

AI Centers and Water Concerns in West Texas

AI is a big concern of mine because one, we have to stay out ahead of China. In my district, this is a big issue because we’re getting AI centers, we’re getting data centers working. We’re very concerned about how we’re going to keep water in our district.

TUCKER CARLSON: I was about to say, do you have the water for that?

RYAN ZINK: So we have the water, but for how long? When they come in, are we looking at 20 years? Are we looking at 30 years? I have proposals that I would like to see. We have flare gas in West Texas. It’s a way burn off gas.

TUCKER CARLSON: Yep.

RYAN ZINK: Atmospheric water generators would be perfect to put on there. We could offset and let them use it. Closed loop systems, I think are going to be mostly beneficial, but they cost, they take a lot of energy. And how are we supposed to keep, we have to stay ahead of China, we have to stay ahead of Russia.

TUCKER CARLSON: So are these, not to get in the weeds, but are these centers can be run on flare gas? Is that the idea?

RYAN ZINK: That’s what I would like to see. Well, yeah, I would like to. So I would like to get on several committees like the Ag Board, Energy Sector, because I believe that we can do this. But at what cost? I mean, we’re already $40 trillion in debt. We just spent another $800 million yesterday, today.

TUCKER CARLSON: So is the district being asked to pay for some of this stuff?

RYAN ZINK: I think that just like anything else, they say this is not going to hurt you. This is not going to affect your electric bill. And then what do we see three years down the road when the funding runs out? It comes from us, and tax rates go up.

TUCKER CARLSON: Why would citizens fund private businesses, whether it’s a sports stadium or a data center? I don’t understand. What?

RYAN ZINK: Well, yeah, and you see this all the time where we get promised something, say, like wind turbines. They said that it was going to be one of the greatest things. I built them. I built hundreds of these things. They’re not ever going to pay for themselves.

TUCKER CARLSON: Have you told Ben Shapiro? Because this doesn’t sound like the free market to me at all, man.

RYAN ZINK: Maybe I should. You think he’d listen?

TUCKER CARLSON: No, I don’t think he’s on your side, Ryan. But you just hear these people. The free market, capitalism, I’m in favor of it. When do we get that? Because this doesn’t. But it seems like the opposite. Seems like crushing the middle class to help a tiny percentage of the population get richer than anyone’s ever been.

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. And then blame it on the rich.

TUCKER CARLSON: Doesn’t seem like capitalism to me. But who are you running against?

The Primary Race

RYAN ZINK: So I’m running against eight. So there’s eight people total in the race.

TUCKER CARLSON: In the primary?

RYAN ZINK: Yes. Well, there’s seven in the Republican and then one in the Democrats.

TUCKER CARLSON: I’m assuming West Texas is still decided in the primary, correct?

RYAN ZINK: Yeah. So it’s whoever gets this seat.

TUCKER CARLSON: Right. The Republican winner of the Republican primary will be the next member of Congress. Yeah.

RYAN ZINK: I think we’re 20 plus, 25 plus, 27.

TUCKER CARLSON: That’s my point. Okay, so of the seven, the six you’re running against, who are they? Do you have a shot?

RYAN ZINK: I do believe that I have a shot. I think that I have the experience. I think that once people see the full story of J6, plus, I think so. So one of the people that we have is Tom Sell. He is a lobbyist. He’s worked in ag for a long time. But for both sides. And not all of the things that he’s worked on do I feel really had the relevancy to quantify experience.

I think that he was there with Larry Combust whenever he was a congressman for our district, the first Republican congressman when we flipped, and have been a Republican ever since. But I’m not really keen on 76% of the farm bill going to SNAP benefits. I think it’s a waste of money. There’s a lot of things about the farm bill that need to be changed.

Agricultural Challenges

I mean, the farmers in our area, well, not just here, but all across the United States, but this is the district that I love, that I call home, we have some of the highest input costs that we’ve ever seen, ever. And we need a farm bill that stops putting a band aid on funding. I mean, we have a slew of things. I think one of the most important issues that’s been neglected, not only in the first farm bill that he helped write, is insurance. We’re at a giant insurance war. And also in funding.

It is very, very hard to get ag lending with the interest rates, with the amount of money that goes down, not to mention if you’re trying to buy a new tractor. I don’t know if you’ve looked at the price of some of those lately. It’s astonishing how much it’s costing us. And then at the same time, we have grifters that are coming in across the district that make these raucous claims about they’ve generated millions of votes for Donald Trump with an organization, Abraham Enriquez. And I’ve seen no relevant information outside of what his campaign puts out, that he’s raised millions of votes for Donald Trump. I haven’t seen it.

TUCKER CARLSON: So these are, you’re talking about a candidate in the primary.

RYAN ZINK: Yes.

TUCKER CARLSON: So I don’t know how you’ve been treated, but having watched other people make similar statements about the way our system works, I think you’re going to get attacked. That’s just my guess. Pretty hard.

RYAN ZINK: I’ve been attacked for five years now.

TUCKER CARLSON: But on my grounds.

Threats and Attacks

RYAN ZINK: I’ve had death threats. We’ve had somebody come out to my house and place three targets, three shooting targets on my vehicles. One for me, one for my wife, and one for my daughter. I turned those over to the Hockley County Sheriff’s office and they took a report. There were no fingerprints. Nothing came out of it.

I get attacked for being at J6. I get attacked for my faith on a regular basis. There’s a little nefarious group of, no, I’m not just going to say Democrats. I’m just going to say people that don’t believe, the spiritual warfare aspect of it, there’s always that attack. But the threats on my life and my family are the ones that, it’s something that I hope nobody has to experience, but I’m there already.

We have guys in our race that are parading around after getting the government’s endorsement with security in Jones County. Nobody wants to shoot anybody in Jones County. This is a very, very small district that has lost two hospitals, which is another huge issue.

Other Candidates in the Race

And then we have, just continuing with who I’m running against. Jason Corley, Precinct 2 commissioner for Lubbock, Texas. I like Jason. I think he’s a great guy, honestly. I think he’s got some experience and some knowledge that I think would benefit across the district. Not to say that I don’t have the same experience. I’ve been entirely focused on how Congress works for five years, trying to overcome laws that would not just benefit me, but 1,600 people.

I think there’s some things that he wants to do that are great for the district that I would love to be a part of, too. But there’s something missing, and it’s not a smash at him, because I think there’s guys that have run for the right reason.

And then you have Dolmen, who’s 80 years old. I believe he’s a neurosurgeon, if I remember correctly, decorated veteran. He’s a wonderful man. Do we really want to put up, look at Mitch McConnell this week. Where are we at? Across the line of where how old is too old. He seems pretty chipper, but some of the things that he says, I think it’s more of a fantasy than a reality of what you’re actually going to get to committing.

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, a dying country has dying leaders, so it’s just a bad trend, I would say.

RYAN ZINK: And I think there’s some dissonance to that, because what can you actually get accomplished right now? I mean, we have everything that we need to restore this country right now, and we still aren’t getting the votes.

The Need for Extraordinary Leadership

TUCKER CARLSON: Yeah, you’re not getting anything done at all. And it’s getting worse, of course, and it’s just a complete betrayal. I think that’s fair to say. But the question is why? And the answer, from what I can tell, maybe you disagree, is that the machine is so strong that it takes an extraordinary person to stand in its way.

RYAN ZINK: It does. But I think that we could do that, though.

TUCKER CARLSON: And that’s just takes some extraordinary people.

RYAN ZINK: I mean, look at what the squad did to Congress. Look at how they were able to manipulate Nancy Pelosi into a corner.

TUCKER CARLSON: They’re, in their own way, extraordinary people. I mean, that’s just a fact. I disagree with them, of course, and I absolutely mean, but I think they’re A, talented and B, pretty good at, pretty brave, really. They stood against a lot of things that their leadership wanted, and I don’t know. I don’t want them in charge of anything. I know they put me in prison immediately if they ever took power.

However, I think their success within their own conference is a model to Republicans. Don’t go along with what Mitch McConnell wants. And Mike Johnson, which is weak, ineffective. That’s the biggest. Sinister, too. I mean, let’s be honest. They’re sinister. What is this?

America First Budget Priorities

RYAN ZINK: The biggest thing that I see that is holding Americans back is that we have to get control of our spending. Our budget is designed to protect America, benefit the American citizens. And then we get into foreign policy about where typically our money leaves our country. And I have a huge issue with that.

And some of the other candidates, they don’t have an issue with that. I’m America first. I believe if it doesn’t benefit Americans, then we shouldn’t be doing it. And I don’t care what country it is. There’s no reason for us to be sending billions and billions of dollars, one, to research transgender frogs in South America. Any of these other crazy things that have come out with DOGE, and we should not only be allowing DOGE to continue, but we should be way more actively involved in where our spending goes.

I think that Americans have the right to say no, of course. And of course they do.

The Erosion of Government Legitimacy

TUCKER CARLSON: No. And yeah. And I do think at this point, when you find out that everyone at DOJ has been sitting on the Epstein files for 15 years and they knew they’re complicit in it. And so at this point, the government has very little legitimacy left, I would say. I don’t feel that they’re legitimate.

RYAN ZINK: And I just think that there’s no transparency at all.

TUCKER CARLSON: Right.

RYAN ZINK: I just think that we’re being completely lied to.

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, right.

RYAN ZINK: And you have to navigate that. You have to have the experience of going through something like I did, to see the wording, to see the writing on the wall and not donate money to the other side for this cause, or stand firm in the gap for where you are, because we’re never going to get anywhere if we don’t fix it.

We’re coming up on 250 years here. July 4th. What are we going to leave behind for our children?

TUCKER CARLSON: I agree. It takes bravery. That’s what it takes. And you’ve displayed it. So last question is, since you’re not on Facebook.

RYAN ZINK: Well, I have one. I just don’t have a congressional page.

How to Support the Campaign

TUCKER CARLSON: How do people learn about your campaign and how do they send you money?

RYAN ZINK: I just want to say that if every viewer that watched this sent me $5, we could keep the district in its entirety in Republican control. I think that that would be more than enough. But I only take money from people that believe in me. I don’t want to take money from PACs.

Everybody says, yeah, well, they’ll give you all this. I want business owners, I want true patriots, Americans who are sick of the system that we live in to get behind me. I don’t want to see if you think that I’m going to bow down to a cause like with Major Farm or something like that that would get me to vote a certain way that dishonors the people of my district or dishonors the way that I would live my Christian life. I don’t want your money.

But if you want to be one of the people that believes in me, that stands up for American values, that stands up for a country that was founded on biblical principles, you can go and you can find everything about my campaign and about me at Ryan Zink dot vote. That’s R Y A N D I N K dot vote. I’m on X at Ryan Z for Congress. That’s the tag handle. And then Ryan Zink is my Facebook.

And then also I have a TikTok, but I use that more of a platform for my Bible studies. If I feel led to move something to get a message out on there, I put that on TikTok, and that’s just Ryan Z. Ryan Zink for Congress on there.

Faith, Family, and Freedom in District 19

TUCKER CARLSON: I appreciate you taking all this time and coming out here for this man.

RYAN ZINK: I appreciate you putting some interest in District 19. It’s very hard to be in our area and get recognition, get exposure to the needs of our community. I bet just for where we are. I feel like sometimes we as big as we are, it’s a large district. It’s over 30,000 square miles.

We’ve got 750,000 people, somewhere around there. It’s a big district and it’s food, it’s fuel, it’s fiber but more importantly it’s faith, it’s family and it’s freedom is what grows in our district and that’s where I call home and I love it and I really appreciate the opportunity to come in and tell my story.

TUCKER CARLSON: Amen. Ryan Zink, thank you very much.

RYAN ZINK: Thank you.

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