Why a trans woman helped right-wing activist Jake Lang flee Minneapolis march

Daye Gottsche let the stranger into the car without knowing he was a right-wing provocateur who had been leading a march to support President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

She didn’t realize that the demonstrators she saw on her drive had gathered at Minneapolis City Hall on Saturday to counterprotest — and were chasing him away, throwing punches at him. Gottsche did not recognize that this man was Jake Lang, who was charged with beating police officers with a baseball bat during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and jailed for four years before Trump pardoned him.