Man Who Joined ‘Fight for Trump’ Crowd at Capitol Siege Posed as Antifa, Discussed Molotov Cocktails With His Self-Styled Militia: Feds – By Jerry Lambe (Law and Crime) / July 6 2021
A Virginia man is facing several criminal charges after he allegedly admitted to an undercover federal agent that he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while dressed to look like an anti-fascist activist and discussed details about his own nascent militia group that had been casing Congress in the months following the riot, according to federal court documents.
In a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, federal authorities revealed that an undercover FBI operative had developed a relationship with defendant Fi Duong following the Capitol siege, embedding himself in Duong’s militia-like group for several months. Several pages of the FBI’s affidavit detail Duong’s alleged interest in Molotov cocktails, a phrase that appears more than a dozen times in the document.
“The recipe that I have. This is just from my own study and from looking at sources that I will not yet name,” Duong is quoted as telling an undercover FBI operative in May, months after the siege of the Capitol, while explaining exactly how he planned to make the homemade incendiary devices. “But again, this is all just in theory. I have not tested any of this out.”
Duong is not accused of any violent acts or actually using the weapons, but authorities cite them to illustrate his alleged rhetoric in favor of political violence, preparing for what he called “the second American Civil War.”
