“It didn’t take me long to figure out God was saying to go there,” she said. “I do what I can in prayer, and I put action to my faith.” Rebecca Lavrenz, a retired registered nurse, drove 25 hours across country, fasting and praying throughout the long trip to reach her destination. As she entered the US Capitol building on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, she was thinking of her grandchildren and what kind of country they were inheriting. “I’ve always been a lifelong lover of truth, and I felt something went really wrong with that 2020 election, and I hate injustice,” she said.
“The whole reason I went to the Capitol was to pray,” she said. “I didn’t get into this for myself, I was there to stand up for my country. God led me to go there and into the building to stand up for my First Amendment rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
12 BIDEN VOTERS CONVICTED HER FOR PRAYING IN CAPITOL BUILDING
On April 4th, twelve Biden voters* found Lavrenz guilty on four misdemeanor counts related to her 10 minutes walking through the US Capitol: 1) Entering and remaining in a restricted building (the door was open and no one told her to leave), 2) Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds (she did not shout), 3) Disorderly conduct in a capitol building (she did not touch a thing), and 4) Parading, demonstrating or picketing in a capitol (she walked quietly through the halls and left when she realized she would not be able to talk to her representative or senator).
Her sentencing hearing is set for August 12th and she could get up to a year in prison and a $200,000 fine. Ray Epps was sentenced to one year of probation, a $25 fine, $500 restitution and 100 hours of community service, so real justice dictates that Rebecca will get far less. Ha! Don’t count on it!
That said, she may not be in prison long nor ever have to pay the fine. She had the honor of meeting Trump last August. President Trump has promised to consider pardons and "to many, an apology" for J6 attendees, which he sees as patriots and hostages. Trump also shared his support for Rebecca Lavrenz in a Truth Social Post on Friday when he learned she had been convicted.
REBECCA MEETS TRUMP
"I was arrested, charged, and am awaiting trial on March 25, 2024 for praying and taking God’s presence into our U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021," Lavrenz wrote in an August 2023 Facebook post. "Just last week I had the honor of being introduced to the President by my daughter, Laura, who works for his campaign. I was able to have a brief conversation with him and let him know I am in this fight with him to save our country."
“Just standing up for my country makes me a criminal,” Lavrenz said in a video posted on X as her trial date approached. “It’s not right. It feels so weird to be here.” Lavrenz, age 72, who owns & runs a bed & breakfast, has four adult children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandson. She doesn’t regret walking into the United States Capitol during the “Stop The Steal Rally” protesting the 2020 presidential election irregularities. “I felt I was there on assignment from God,” she said last week in a phone interview from her hotel room in Washington, DC.
JOINT TERRORISM TASK FORCE CHASING AFTER JAYWALKERS
Agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force reviewed surveillance camera footage and confirmed Lavrenz’s account, according to a court document filed Sept. 19, 2022. [NOTE: Anti-terrorism agents never worked on misdemeanor cases until Biden started persecuting Trump supporters. They are, by law, supposed to be protecting America from foreign terrorists.] Wearing a red scarf and a white hat to the rally, which she attended by herself, Lavrenz encountered a group of people praying outside the Capitol, and she joined them for about an hour and a half.
“It was a patriotic, joyful time to be around so many people who love their country,” she said. “I felt a strong presence of the spirt of God fall over me, and I started crying.” At one point, she took the microphone to speak about the 1620 Mayflower Compact. Included in that agreement, which pilgrims had signed before they set foot on American soil, was that the country would be dedicated to the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith.
“My mission in life is to know God and make his ways known and restore the country back to its godly foundation,” Lavrenz said. “Without God, there’s no justice.”
TEN MINUTES
When the East Rotunda doors were opened, Lavrenz said she felt compelled to go in, “to bring God inside the Capitol with my presence.”
Surveillance tapes show Lavrenz following the crowd and staying within ropes that blocked people from entering certain parts of the building. “I didn’t say anything, I didn’t shout or wave. I didn’t see any violence when I was in the Capitol, and there was no damage,” she said. “I felt God’s presence in me and just made my presence known to let Congress know we the people voted them in office, and we were saying you need to listen to what we’re saying.”
Lavrenz said she and other people in the group turned around and left when someone said members of Congress had already left the building. “So, we didn’t have any way to express our grievances and left.”
Video footage shows Lavrenz entering the Capitol at 2:43 p.m. and exiting the building at 2:53 p.m. When she arrived back home, Lavrenz said she felt good about her participation. “I did what I was supposed to be doing and was surprised to hear that people were getting arrested,” she said.
THE PERSECUTION BEGINS
In April of 2021 two FBI agents, who had been taken off investigations of real crime like international child sex trafficking, knocked at the door at her rural home 14 miles outside Colorado Springs, CO. They told her they were there to investigate her involvement in the January 6th event. She made the mistake of talking to them.^ On December 19, 2022, Lavrenz was arrested and charged with four federal misdemeanors at the US District Court in Denver.
“I sat in a prison for three hours, and they let me out of personal recognizance, took my passport, put me on probation and told me to let the officer know if I was going to travel anywhere,” she said.
Lavrenz refused a plea deal the prosecution offered last year. “I didn’t get into this for myself, I was there to stand up for my country,” she said. “I asked God if I did something wrong, if I needed to repent, and God said, ‘No, you went there to make my presence known and to pray.’
“My biggest prayer is that God gets the final word this week.”
THE PERSECUTION CONTINUES
Lavrenz is among 1,358 people charged with “criminal actions” related to the January 6th rally, according to the US Department of Justice. She is one of 1,276 defendants who allegedly entered or remained in a restricted federal building or grounds. On January 6th of this year, the head federal prosecutor bragged they would not stop the persecution of Trump supporters until they had rounded up 1,000 more victims. The corrupt US Attorney, Matthew Graves, announced that he is expanding his victim pool to include Americans who merely walked across the lawn or down the sidewalk outside the Capitol building.
About 500 new cases are expected to come before the US District Court in Washington, DC, this year. Last week, another Biden jury* convicted a Virginia man, who went inside the Capitol for three minutes, walked around and took photos, on the same four counts charged against Lavrenz.
After a lengthy deliberation that’s been rare for such cases Rebecca, known on social media as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” was convicted on all four federal misdemeanor charges for walking through the Capitol building for ten minutes on January 6, 2021.
"I was surprised," she said after the verdict. "I believe God wanted it to turn out this way so my voice could be amplified. We have to wake up our country."
AN ACTIVIST IS BORN
When she gets back home, Lavrenz said she wants to launch a podcast featuring interviews with people about the state of the country under Democrat Joe Biden and what they are doing to help turn the tide to GOP leadership. She also has a website entitled Restoring Godly Culture that, among other things, includes a button allowing visitors to donate toward her defense fund.
“The average person doesn’t realize they can make a difference,” she said.
“We’re never going to change our country until we change the average person.” Writing a book and going to law school with one of her daughters could also be in Lavrenz’s future. “I’m going to make my voice so loud that if they try to put me in prison to shut it up, it won’t work,” she said.
If the corporate mainstream media were honorable and steadfast in supporting our constitutional republic instead of the corrupt Democrat hacks and stooges, our nation and the world would be better served. There would be peace and prosperity — and the Democrats wouldn’t have political prisoners suffering behind bars.
Border is a divergence in addition to a tragedy.