A Capitol rioter is building a tiny village for her fellow January 6 convicts to flock to after lockup now that President Donald Trump kept his promise to pardon them.
Jenny Cudd, 40, was sentenced to two months of probation and $5,500 in fines and restitution in 2022 after she illegally entered the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, ahead of Congress swearing in President Joe Biden‘s win.
Now, after facing the severity of the US justice system, she is building a small community similar to a halfway house on her 11-acre property in Fredericksburg, Texas, roughly 65 miles outside of San Antonio, as part of her J6 Road Home Project.
‘We are interested in criminal reform because we have experienced it,’ Cudd told DailyMail.com. ‘It’s one of the blessings of January 6. I’m passionate about it now…I’ve been through the process.’
The purpose behind her project is ‘fostering healing, wellness, and wholeness in body, soul, and spirit’ for those who may potentially be released from prison come Monday, her website said.
She expects the rioters who join her on her property will stay for three-month periods, or potentially longer, and will have access to accountants and doctors and employment help to aide in their transition back to normal life.
‘I don’t [expect them to transition easily],’ she told DailyMail.com. ‘A lot have lost their ability to make an income, [but] I think everyone deserves a second chance.
‘Life shouldn’t be dictated by one day.’
More than 1,500 Americans, including Cudd – who does not regret illegally entering the Capitol – faced criminal charges for the insurrection, and Trump, 78, pardoned all the rioters on his first day in office on Monday.
He also commutated 14 sentences, including former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley.
Cudd is ready to welcome her fellow rioters with open arms by providing them a home after prison to safely reenter society and already has two men lined up to join her.
When Cudd spoke to DailyMail.com prior to the inauguration, one of the men was currently in prison, while the other was staying in a halfway house. She expects a lot more to stop by on their way home and more to come in the next few months.
‘We think we’ll be full soon,’ she told DailyMail.com. ‘I plan on cooking for all of them, I’m an excellent cook.’
She has a max capacity of five single insurrectionists to live on her property once all five tiny homes are completed. Currently, one is completed and a second is in the works.
The homes are roughly 300-square-feet and will have a kitchenette available, as well as furniture. They currently cannot house families, Cudd said.
Cudd, herself, evaded jailtime by taking a plea deal in October 2021, where she pleaded guilty to two counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.
Photos of her inside the Capitol, where she remained for 19 minutes, showed her smiling as she wore a Trump flag around her neck and live-streamed her fellow rioters on her Facebook.
Cudd was working in her flower shop a week after the insurrection when she was arrested by the Midland Police Department, who showed up in tactical gear. She was the 68th person arrested.
‘I don’t [regret it],’ she told DailyMail.com. She also said her federal misdemeanor did not harm her professionally, like it has others, as she has been self-employed for the last decade.
‘A presidential pardon won’t have a big effect on my life, but it’s a big thing [for others],’ she told DailyMail.com.
Despite it not not having a huge effect on her, Cudd said the hardest part after the riots was the psychological distress, as she, her family, and her employees were given death threats and harassed.
Now, she believes it’s divine intervention for her to have such a large amount of property to be able to house rioters and she has her community behind her.
She started really working on the project roughly a year and a half ago when she and her husband, Doug McComb, whom she married after the riot, moved onto their 11-acre property.
She got the idea after she saw so many people talking about how to help the rioters in prison, but ‘no one was working on what to do when they’re out’.
Cudd (pictured leaving court in 2021) was working in her flower show a week after the insurrection when she was arrested by the Midland Police Department, who showed up in tactical gear
And she’s had help from big-named Republicans, such as MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell – who is currently in the midst of a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for his claims it tried to steal the 2020 election – and former Texas House Representative Kyle Biedermann, who also participated in the riot but didn’t enter the Capitol.
Local companies, like Patriot Services Electric and Enchanted Rock Granite, are also helping her build her small village.
She and her husband own a bar called 1776, which is also raising funds through a tip jar at the establishment. She’s also raised more than $30,000 on GiveSendGo.
Outside of Cudd, no one involved has any connection January 6 riots, but they all believe in giving second chances, including contractor Edwin Brooks, who spent two years in jail on drug charges.
The first two men who arrive on her property will already have jobs through Brooks and another contractor.
As more get released from prison, Cudd is ready to help them take the steps to success one day at a time.
