When Phillip Crawford talks about President Donald Trump, the conversation tends to get loud.
“Trump is saving this country,” the Bremen resident known to friends as “Bunky” said with earsplitting conviction.
Crawford is a big fan.
It’s why he answered Trump’s call to come to Washington five years ago to hear him speak in a fiery address at the Ellipse. It’s also why he marched to the U.S. Capitol to demand Congress overturn an election he and his president declared stolen.
Crawford was among the nearly 1,600 people arrested in the years following the Capitol riot. When Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20, Crawford was awaiting sentencing on multiple felonies, including three counts of assaulting police.
Trump changed Crawford’s trajectory with a stroke of the presidential Sharpie.
While he is appreciative of the pardon, Crawford said it’s not enough. He wants former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats punished.
“Every one of them should be in prison,” he said.
Crawford is part of a group organizing a rally next Jan. 6 at Mar-a-Lago to thank the president and focus attention on what he said were the “crimes” the Biden administration’s Department of Justice perpetrated on Americans.
That level of exhilarated conviction translates to buoyant support for Trump’s policies — from mass deportations to tariffs.
“If it takes this country hurting before we get better, that’s the man to go with,” he said. “We want this country to last. We want this country to prosper. If it takes hurting, I’m all for it.”
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