Joshua Hernandez

Joshua’s wife, Letty came from Guatemala.  She knew firsthand how devastating it could be if you stood up to power.  Joshua reassured her that didn’t happen in America.  But slowly, Joshua began to see grave injustice.  Trump was an outsider and was not treated the same as those who’d been in DC forever.   Trump was for the little guy.  That is why Joshua supported him.   The Hernandez family went to bed on November 3^rd, 2020, with Trump having a wide lead, only to awake and find that up to 92% of all ballots cast overnight went to Joe Biden.  These powerful groups deemed Joshua’s candidate, Donald Trump ‘unworthy’ and had somehow shifted the election to their preferred candidate.

Letty was pregnant with their second child when Joshua and some friends decided to go to the Capitol to voice their discontent.  Joshua was passionate, the election was flawed.  It should be reexamined.  He had to go to the Capitol on January 6^th.   Letty was supportive but worried. Coming from Guatemala, she had seen what powerful politicians do to those who are not ardent followers.  She suggested he not go.  Joshua assured her he was going to protest peacefully.  He had read and studied; protesting was a basic right of all Americans – a bedrock of our system of governance.  The ability to peacefully protest, march in the streets if needed, because this was a government of the people, by the people and for the people.   Look, he pointed out, no one from the 2020 riots was punished.

After speeches and protesting outside in the frigid cold, Joshua and others went into the Capitol.  That was a mistake, he now admits.  But he carried only an American flag on a pole, and his pride.  Once inside, he waved his flag and chanted chants that the election was riddled with fraud.  The DOJ alleges he illegally entered the restricted grounds of the Capitol, heading to the Lower West Terrace area, and inciting the crowd by waving a flag and chanting.  At 2:13 p.m., Joshua entered the Capitol through a window near the Senate Wing Doors, carrying a flagpole. Over the next 40 minutes, Joshua was led by a “Trump supporter” who was likely an FBI agent dressed as such, as explained by Congressman Higgins.  The Capitol is complex and Joshua was led quickly to the Senate Wing, the Crypt, the House Speaker’s Conference Room, and the Rotunda, among various places, with his flagpole in hand so that the left would have their pictures and their “insurrection” narrative.

The DOJ arrested Joshua in 2021.  In his own words, “After protesting and returning home, a chilling day awaited as I headed to work.  After almost a year, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrels of 30 FBI agents’ guns, loaded and pointed menacingly at me. In that harrowing moment, a cold realization washed over me – they were out to vilify Trump supporters, branding us as dangerous extremists.”  Thirty agents! Dressed in black, faces covered, all for one man who surrendered peacefully. Joshua only asked that before they enter, to allow his wife and child to get dressed. That was denied and into the house they came like Storm Troopers in the night. Letty was horrified as they dragged him away like a gang kingpin or drug lord.  The children were traumatized.  That was the point.

Like all J6rs, he faced enormous pressure.  He could be charged with the Enron act and get 20 years.  After months, with the help of a legal team helping J6 arrestees, lots of legal wrangling, bills stacking up and losing his job, Joshua was at the end of his rope. His lawyers advised him to plead guilty and his sentence would be much lighter.  They were expecting 30 to 60 days.    So he pled guilty on November 2, 2022, to charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers, as well as interfering with officers during a civil disorder.  Joshua recalled the day he was sentenced to a two-year jail term, that back in May of 2020, there was a group of ANTIFA protestors who attempted to burn down a Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon.  Most of them were let off with a slap-on-the-wrist others were offered commuted sentences.  Most never served a day in jail, others had the federal charges dismissed while a handful were let go with only “time served”.  Theirs was an overt attempt to harass, harm and rain down hell on federal employees, he was only protesting a problematic election.

U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper sentenced Joshua to two years of hard time.  Joshua was also ordered Hernandez to serve 36 months of supervised release and pay a $2,000 special assessment.

During his incarceration, his daughter, Jaycee was born and he is yet to meet her. Joshua’s mother passed away and he was not allowed, as is custom in most jurisdictions, to attend her funeral. 

Pray for Joshua’s release and the money to support his family, even if he is not there to work and provide, which is his deepest desire.   He was the sole provider and times are getting hard for Letty and the children.

I checked and only a few went to jail others were either thrown out or time served ???