Afull-time employee of the Trump administration appears to have taken part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to a new analysis.
USA Today reported that Oliver Krvaric, who was working at the time as a "confidential assistant" for the Office of Personnel Management, can be seen in photos and videos crossing the threshold of the west door of the upper west terrace of the U.S. Capitol immediately ahead of far-right influencer "Baked Alaska."
“I was not in the Capitol," Krvaric told the newspaper. "I did not go into any offices, I didn’t wander the halls. I was not on the premises.”
A reporter asked if that meant he had not crossed the threshold of the building, which was enough for some participants to be charged. Krvaric asked what that meant, and he stopped responding to texts when sent a surveillance video appearing to show him inside the building.
Krvaric did acknowledge he was on the streets that day in Washington, D.C., and attended Donald Trump's speech at the Ellipse. Photos appear to show him wearing a blue coat, holding a Trump flag and an "America First" flag associated with the far-right "Groyper" movement, along with a blue cap and distinctive pink Adidas shoes.
A spokesman for the Office of Personnel Management confirmed that Krvaric, who led the College Republicans while at San Diego State University, was employed by the department from November 2020 to January 2021, on a Trump executive order seeking to rid federal agencies of diversity and inclusion training.
Online sleuths also determined that Krvaric, the son of California GOP power broker Tony Krvaric, created a profile in 2016 on a neo-Nazi website, where it appears he praised Adolf Hitler, backed deportation of non-white people and made anti-LGBTQ posts, and while he said he did not recall those statements he did not deny making them.
“I don’t know if that’s long in the past, or — I wouldn’t recognize anything,” Krvaric told the newspaper. “I just don’t have a recollection.”