“Grace was in the background of one of the most ridiculous and iconic photographs from that day: the shot of a man in a red, white, and blue Trump hat waiving to the camera while carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern through the rotunda. Grace’s bald head was visible in the background.
“You know the guy carrying the lectern out?” Grace would later ask a Texas police officer, in a video Grace recorded and posted online during a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border while he was on pretrial release.
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“Yes, sir,” the officer responded.
“Look at the old man behind him,” Grace boasted. “That’s me.”
It added this:
“After his arrest, Grace told FBI agents that he ...