Atlantic City man charged in Capitol attack boasted of urinating in Pelosi’s office, feds say
James Douglas Rahm narrated his incursion at the Capitol on Facebook, prosecutors say. "Do not believe the media," he said in one post. "There were no anarchists. No antifa. Just patriots."
Until the FBI began its nationwide dragnet of suspects involved in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, James Douglas Rahm, prosecutors say, counted his presence among the mobs that stormed the building that day as a point of pride.
On Facebook, he posted videos, narrating the incursion. “We’re here,” he said in one filmed inside the Capitol Rotunda. “Time to find some brass and kick some frickin’ ass.”
He boasted in the comments: “Do not believe the media. There were no anarchists. No antifa. Just patriots trying to take our country back.”
And when a friend urged him to give House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a kiss, Rahm replied: “Pissed in her office.”
Those social media posts — detailed in court filings made public for the first time this week nearly a month after his arrest in Philadelphia — laid out the case against Rahm, just one of the roughly 25 Pennsylvania and 10 South Jersey residents charged in playing a role in the insurrection that left five people dead.
And like many of the others, the 61-year-old high-rise restoration worker and member of Bikers for Trump appears to have provided much of the evidence that led to his arrest through his social media posts.
Rahm had made some efforts to cover his tracks, FBI agents said. According to charging documents in his case, he deleted many of his Facebook posts within days of the insurrection as a nationwide manhunt began for those who had participated in the attack.
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Yet, three people — including one described in court filings as someone who had known Rahm for more than a decade — saved screenshots, which they turned over to the FBI.
One photo, included in the filings, showed Rahm — eyes puffy from what he described as a blast of pepper spray — dressed in a Harley-Davidson jacket and a gray knit cap emblazoned with Trump’s name.
“Are you okay?” a friend asked in response.
Rahm replied: “Home alive. History made. I walked through Pelosi’s office. I should have sh— on her desk.”
Agents said they later corroborated Rahm’s presence in the Capitol with security footage from that day.
But news reports indicate it was not his first trip to Washington to support Donald Trump — or to engage in raucous protests.
An Associated Press story from Trump’s 2017 inauguration described him at the middle of a chaotic confrontation with anti-Trump demonstrators along the newly sworn-in president’s parade route.
“Get a job,” he was quoted as saying in what the article described as a “lengthy and at times profane” exchange. “Stop crying, snowflakes. Trump won.”
He now faces charges including illegally entering a restricted area, disorderly conduct and obstruction of Congress, the most serious of which carries a maximum prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Neither he nor his attorney immediately responded to requests for comment Friday.