• Keith Scott, a Trump supporter, told CNN the “Stop the Steal” movement is like a “cult.”
• Scott, a 49-year-old Georgian, embraced the movement after Fox News called Arizona for Biden.
• Scott told the network he was going to write a book warning people not to join similar movements.

A Georgia man who traveled to Washington, DC and marched to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 to protest the 2020 election results on behalf of then-President Donald Trump, now compares the movement ” Stop the Steal” to a “cult”.

Keith Scott, a 49-year-old man who was upset that Fox News called Arizona the swing state for current President Joe Biden on election night in November 2020, believed he had found his voice after that day fateful.

“I felt like a patriot who stood with our founding fathers denouncing King George,” Scott told CNN in an interview published Wednesdaydescribing January 6 as “the best day” of his life.

After the 2020 election, Scott said he eagerly embraced Trump’s debunked claims of a stolen election – fueled by radio programs hosted by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the unsuccessful challenges of the former president in legal elections.

At the time, Scott heard an ad about a caravan of “Stop the Steal” supporters in Atlanta, so he went to check it out and told CNN he was hooked then.

He eventually spent the next few months living mostly in his vehicle, attending “Stop the Steal” rallies in locations across the country.

“I felt like we were doing something,” Scott told the network. “If nothing else, we were showing patriotism, because we were defending – whether we were right or not – we felt like we were standing up, making our voices heard.”

There was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and although Georgia was one of the closest states to the country on election night, competition in the state was expected to be tight.

In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in Georgia by 11,779 votes out of nearly 5 million ballots cast; the president got 2,473,633 votes, or 49.5%, while Trump got 2,461,854 votes, or 49.2%.

Since his statewide loss, Trump has inserted himself relentlessly into Georgian politics — even pushing Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ‘find’ votes to overturn Biden’s statewide victory. of the state — and backed former GOP Sen. David Perdue’s intraparty gubernatorial challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp, who refused to join the former president’s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 results.

Scott revealed to the network that he was near the Capitol’s west entrance on Jan. 6, 2021, watching fights between protesters and police as other attendees smashed windows and entered the historic building.

Scott told CNN he did not enter the building that day and so far has not been wanted by the FBI. Until there, more than 770 people have been charged related to the riot.

Scott said “people who actually, you know, had physical confrontations with police officers, they should be held accountable.”

He also told CNN he didn’t know how the events of that day would end, but said he saw “bad” things on Jan. 6 “regardless of your side.”

Despite Scott’s new feelings about the “Stop the Steal” movement, he still supports much of their beliefs regarding the election, according to the network.

After the riot ended, Scott traveled to Texas to see a friend, where he revealed he felt like he had just escaped a ‘cult’ – and soon after, he said he would write a book called “Election Fraud Cult.”

He wants the book to serve as a wake-up call for people seeking refuge within these movements.

“My goal is to pay attention to people,” he told the network. “Whether it’s politics or anything else, don’t get so caught up that you can’t make your own decisions anymore.”