Repentant Capitol rioter now says Trump is leading a 'cult'

A woman who stormed the Capitol on former President Donald Trump's behalf is now repentant for her actions -- and she now thinks the former president is the leader of a "cult."

In an interview with The Daily Beast, 70-year-old Idaho resident Pamela Hemphill said she was horrified when Trump recently used her case to argue that Capitol rioters faced unfair prosecutions.

Although she was once a dedicated MAGA devotee, she now says that she regrets getting sucked into the former president's orbit.

“You don’t see it as a cult when you’re in it,” she said. “You don’t recognize it.”

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Hemphill would go on to spend 60 days in prison for breaking into the Capitol, but it wasn't until she returned home to her family that she received an intervention that pulled her out of total dedication to the former president.

"[My family was] telling me, ‘Pam, you’re in a cult. You really need to get out of that… We really care about you, but this is a cult. You’re trapped in a cult,’" she said.

After this, she tells The Daily Beast that she started to see more of Trump's flaws.

“I started seeing the narcissistic behavior,” she said. “And I said, ‘Wait, wait, this is gaslighting. This is not true.’”

Read the full interview at this link.