Jeramiah Caplinger was your average American before January 6. He had humble beginnings, came from your average family, and was relatively apolitical. Like many in the modern United States, he endured hardship yet persevered. At one point becoming homeless, it was under President Trump’s economy that Jeramiah was able to rapidly improve his station in life. He had work, a home, and became a father with a family of four. Jeramiah pulled himself up by the bootstraps and lived the American dream. He worked tirelessly in automotive plants to provide a future for his family.
Read More on American GulagTIM: I’d like to share with the public your motivations for going to DC on January 6, but I’d also like you to talk about who you really are. What should people know about you as an American?
JERAMIAH: I’m literally just a regular guy. Beforehand, I was never really a political person. I just focused on, you know, my life as it was, slowly building it up. For a long time, I was homeless. I couldn’t actually get stable housing and get things in order. I was eventually able to turn it all around. And all of that was under Trump, because my life greatly improved under Trump. Things got cheaper under Trump. Things got better under Trump. I was able to, in one year, I was able to go from being homeless to getting ready to purchase a house. I was proud to say that I got my house before my daughter was born. I had her room set up, diapers, wipes for an entire year, everything.
And then COVID happened, and then my girlfriend lost the opportunity to even have her baby shower. I had never been political before. I knew nothing really about it. All I knew is everyone screaming about Trump is bad and Trump is this and Trump is that. But out on the ground, it’s like, things are getting better. Gas is cheap. I’m making a lot of money. I was able to afford a car. I was pretty over the moon about that. Then the pandemic hits, and then I get called from work saying, “Hey, you can’t come into work. Everything’s getting shut down.” And it was the weirdest thing I’ve ever had been told.
