The FBI has arrested a Capitol riot suspect who boasted on TV that she 'would do it again tomorrow'
- Lori Vinson and her husband were arrested by the FBI on Tuesday in connection to the Capitol riot.
- Vinson previously told a TV interview she wasn't sorry for attending the riot and "would do it again."
- "I felt like I've done nothing wrong and I wouldn't change it," Vinson told 14News on January 14.
The FBI on Tuesday arrested a Kentucky couple in connection to last month's Capitol riot, including a woman who boasted in a TV interview that she "would do it again tomorrow."
Thomas and Lori Vinson were arrested in Owensboro, Kentucky, on Tuesday, the FBI said, and charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct which impedes the conduct of government business; disruptive conduct in the Capitol; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing the Capitol.
The FBI said it used Lori Vinson's TV interviews after the riot to help build their case against the couple.
The criminal complaint cited interviews Vinson gave to news stations in Evansville, Indiana, and Nashville, Tennessee, where she detailed how she and her husband entered the Capitol during the pro-Trump protest, and said she was fired from her job as a nurse when her social-media posts about the trip came to light.
In her TV interviews, Vinson said she and her husband did not force their way into the Capitol and would have left if they were met with any kind of resistance.
Despite being fired for taking part in the protest, she said that she wasn't sorry.
"I would do it again tomorrow," she told 14News on January 14, according to the criminal complaint. "I felt like I've done nothing wrong and I wouldn't change it."
The criminal complaint also detailed Lori Vinson's interviews with the FBI, during which she said she wasn't aware Congress was in session at the time of the breach.
Vinson said that she "knew there was something going on related to the certification of the electoral votes" on the day of the riot, but didn't know Congress was "in session" at the time.
"She expected that no Congressional officials would be in the building because they certainly would not have been allowed entry if they were in session," the FBI said of Vinson.
According to the complaint, she also told the FBI that she and her husband eventually left the Capitol after witnessing a person trying to break down an office door with Sen. Mitch McConnell's name on it.
The Vinsons are among the more than 250 people that have been arrested in connection to the Capitol riot so far.
The riot led the House to impeach former President Donald Trump for a historic second time, for his role riling up the pro-Trump mob before they stormed the Capitol. But he was acquitted during a Senate trial, with only seven Republicans crossing party lines to vote to convict him.