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Proud Boy Capitol Rioter Urges Other J6ers to Make Grabs for Trump 'Slush-Fund'

Christopher Quaglin, jailed for 12 years for repeatedly assaulting cops on Jan. 6, appears unable to stop offending, but still wants $150 million of your money anyway.

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Tom Latchem
May 29, 2026
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A violent Proud Boys member and serial criminal demanding $150 million after he was jailed for attacking cops on January 6 “over and over again” is calling on his fellow Capitol rioters to seek payouts from the illicit “slush fund” set up by Donald Trump.

Christopher Quaglin, 40, served four years of a 12-year sentence before Trump, 79, pardoned him alongside roughly 1,500 other rioters on day one of his second term.

Footage showed Christopher Quaglin, inside the yellow rectangle, wearing a Make America Great Again star-spangled banner jacket, attacking a police officer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo credit: U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C.)

Far from showing remorse or abandoning his life of crime, PunchUp can reveal Quaglin has been arrested twice in the past three months alone—including last week, when he allegedly tussled with officers who detained him for disorderly conduct.

Last year, Quaglin filed a $150 million administrative claim with the Justice Department, a formal compensation demand over his Jan. 6 conviction, alleging violations of his civil rights, Reuters reported in December.

Now the electrician from North Brunswick, New Jersey, who currently lives in Florida, wants other rioters to share in the American taxpayer-funded spoils.

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