Tea shop owner who closed business for 'emergency road trip' to breach Capitol on Jan. 6 has no regrets, feds say

Source: Law & Crime

Sep 27th, 2024, 4:41 pm


A South Carolina tea shop owner shut down her store for an “emergency road trip” on Jan. 6 to Washington, D.C., and ended up breaching the Capitol building, federal prosecutors say.

Christina Mari Praser-Fair, the owner of Cornwallis House Tea Co. in Winnsboro, around 35 miles north of Columbia, has been outspoken about her time at the Capitol that day, according to federal court records, going so far as to tell a local news station a year later that she “had no regrets” about going.

“We went because we just wanted to be a part of something, you know, like stand up for what we believe in, add to the numbers,” she told a local news station, according to federal prosecutors, who arrested Praser-Fair on Thursday. Praser-Fair placed such a high priority on attending Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally — during which Trump encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell” to keep him in office despite losing to President Joe Biden — that she shut down her tea shop.

“[T]he company will be closed this Wednesday and Thursday while Christina and Jenny take their emergency road trip to D.C. to attend the Trump [rally],” a voicemail from Cornwallis House Tea said on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the complaint.

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