Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
He Tried To Overthrow the Government - The Matthew Huttle story
Tue, 08 Apr 2025
The Matthew Huttle case involves an Indiana man who participated in the US Capitol incident alongside his uncle, Dale Huttle. Matthew entered the building, recording videos during the breach, and was later arrested and sentenced to six months in federal prison.
Chapter 1: Who is Matthew Huttle and what led to his arrest?
So this guy is about to try and overthrow the U.S. government. Now the guy's name is Huddle. Huddle's 41 years old, living in Indiana, and he's kind of a turd. He's been in and out of jail a ton of times. He's got seven DUIs. He went to prison once for a couple of years for leaving bruises on his own kid. Bro is just a nightmare.
But one day in 2021, his whole life changes because his uncle comes to him and he's like, hey, want to overthrow the government? Now, his uncle is this guy, Uncle Dale and Uncle Dale, 73 years old. And he wants to travel over to Washington, D.C., where the president is going to give a public speech to a bunch of his supporters.
And Huddle, he just got out of jail for like a DUI not too long before this, so he doesn't have anything better going on. And so he's just like, overthrow the government. All right. And so they drive 10 hours from Indiana all the way over to Washington, D.C. So they get there and they go to the Ellipse, which is a park right near the White House, to hear the president speak to his supporters.
Here's the thing about the president, though. Two months before this, he had run for reelection and lost. And he's apparently still all salty about it, claiming it was rigged and it's unfair and it was stolen from me. And now he wants to interrupt the certification of the votes, which would create chaos and allow him to remain president for a period longer.
And so on this day at the Ellipse, during his speech to a bunch of his supporters, he basically instructs all of them to march down to the Capitol building and protest and disrupt the certification of the votes.
And after this, we're going to walk down and I'll be there with you.
We're going to walk down. And so Huddle and Uncle Dale hear this and they're like, oh, the president's going down to the Capitol building? Well, hell yeah, let's go with him. And so they and a huge crowd of the president's supporters all start marching and they walk about two miles until they reach the Capitol building.
And of course, the president doesn't go there with them, like he's full of sh**. He probably just went back to the White House to watch TV or something. Like he just wanted his supporters to go down there and be disruptive, which they do. And by the time the crowd gets there, Huddle and Uncle Dale are there. And there's Uncle Dale on the left and Huddle right there on the right.
And they start talking about wanting to get inside the building and arrest members of Congress. In fact, Uncle Dale's exact words are, I think we ought to bum rush the Capitol building. Arrest them all. We've got enough people to do that. But here's where sh** gets crazy. This big-ass crowd surrounds the Capitol. And they really surround this place. Like, they take it over.
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Chapter 2: How did Matthew Huttle get involved in the Capitol incident?
However, he's had a ton of traffic violations, and now he's driving with a suspended license. And now it's like a felony status at this point. And the officer explains this to him, and he explains that he has to place him under arrest.
So today you are going to come with me. Well, I can't. You're going to have to, okay? You're going to come with me today, all right? No, I can't go to jail for this, sir.
But then the officer goes to arrest him.
What I'm going to do, all right, is I'm going to put your information right here for a sec. I want you to turn around and put your hands up. Don't you do it, buddy.
Now, I got to pause the video here. I can't show you what really happened because, you know, it's too violent, but I can explain it to you. So Huddle jumps back in his van and he reaches somewhere and he grabs a pew-pew that he has. And the second he grabs it and holds it up, the officer grabs his and blam, blam, blam, blam. He unalives him.
And now Huddle apparently did that because he was going to unalive himself so that he wouldn't have to go back to jail. And obviously when you suddenly pull out a firearm like that in front of police, they might shoot you, thinking that, you know, you were gonna shoot them. Which is exactly what the officer did. That is wild.
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