Bong-Ripping MAGA Prisoner Brendan Hunt Shares Wild Comic About Cellmate R. Kelly

A former MAGA-obsessed New York City court worker awaiting sentencing for contacting for Democrats to be slaughtered has taken an unconventional method to pleading for independence: drawing a comic strip portraying himself and convicted sex-offender R. Kelly working out at the rear of bars.

Brendan Hunt, a 37-12 months-outdated who the moment labored as a New York State Place of work of Court docket Administration clerk and whose father served as a judge in Queens, was arrested by the FBI on January 19, the day ahead of Biden’s inauguration. In June, a jury located him guilty of earning a collection of threats to kill users of Congress adhering to President Joe Biden’s victory final November. The offense carries a greatest 10 yr prison sentence.

“Trump, we want actual revenge on democrats,” Hunt wrote in a Dec. 6 Facebook submit. “Meaning, we want you to maintain a community execution of pelosi aoc schumer etc. And if you dont do it, the citizenry will. We’re not voting in yet another rigged election. Begin up the firing squads, mow down these commies, and lets choose america back!”

As to start with noted by the New York Each day News, though Hunt was detained in a Brooklyn federal jail, he shared a cell with R. Kelly, who was convicted in September of running a criminal enterprise devoted to encouraging him prey on youthful people.

Now, according to a motion filed Tuesday ahead of his Nov. 22 sentencing, Hunt manufactured his movie star cellmate the co-star of a jailhouse comedian strip about the two reworking their physiques by yoga and aerobics.

In the movement, Hunt’s lawyers argued he has “emerged a significantly diverse gentleman than the one particular who arrived into the felony justice system on January 19, 2021,” and pointed to Hunt’s comics as proof of his rehabilitation all through his keep in the federal Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn.

“Putting his artistic skills to get the job done, he produced a Jail Comics strip, which has been liked by numerous, and we supply a few episodes right here as Exhibit F,” the submitting states. “These are comics and intended to be light-weight. But we consider they seize a thing extra profound about the humanizing communality that can be discovered even in the most dehumanizing disorders.”

Nicole Becker, who represented Kelly in the course of his Brooklyn federal demo, instructed The Daily Beast she was “aware that a rendering was done by Mr. Hunt pertaining to his ordeals in the MDC.”

“Those renderings were being submitted as component of his sentencing memorandum. The rendering appears to show that Mr. Hunt, although a prisoner at the MDC, was motivated by Mr. Kelly to enable positive influences into his daily life, like exercising of both equally the brain and physique,” she mentioned.

In a sentencing memo, prosecutors asked for 51 to 63 months in prison. At demo, the authorities introduced evidence showing that Hunt “had examined white supremacist and anti-Semitic symbols, propaganda and ideology in the months top up to the 2020 presidential election, such as by studying Hitler’s ebook ‘Mein Kampf,’ the web-site ‘Daily Stormer’ and ‘the Protocols of the Figured out Elders of Zion.” The memo mentioned that Hunt “downloaded the jailhouse manifesto of white supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof” just times immediately after Trump’s loss, which he blamed on immigrants.

Hunt also testified in his individual protection during the trial, telling jurors he did not signify what he explained in his social media posts—and blamed the inflammatory language on the pandemic and “a couple of bong rips.” He claimed the months of social isolation and “a large amount of ingesting and smoking” designed him experience like he was “living in the Twilight Zone.”

But Hunt’s attorneys declare the a single-time aspiring actor can use his creativeness to improved modern society, if only the choose will present mercy, stating, “Mr. Hunt has enormous creative expertise and that could be set to company to other individuals.”

Hunt’s illustrated tales, nevertheless, really don’t look to exhibit evidence of personal advancement, but alternatively a need to bulk up his physique and get out of jail.

In the very first illustration presented by Hunt’s defense team, he writes about operating out with R. Kelly, whom he statements is “his sidekick.” In the to start with panel, Kelly attempts to describe to Hunt that he is “the biggest R&B star in human historical past.” But Hunt’s character replies that he does not know any of Kelly’s audio, stating none of the music titles Kelly is rattling off “ring a bell.”

“How can you not know of R. Kelly?!” the cartoon Kelly asks Hunt. “Millions of toddlers have been conceived to my data!!”

Which is when Kelly notices the book Hunt is holding: “Yoga 101,” and asks “What you lookin’ at there, child??”

“It’s some unusual yoga matter that my attorney despatched us…she stated you and me really should do these exercises alongside one another,” Hunt replies, prompting Kelly to scoff at the plan. Hunt also agrees that the two would “look like a couple of idiots.”

But right after some considered, the cellmates dive in headfirst as they strike the Virabhadrasana, or “Warrior Pose,” even though “I Consider I Can Fly” plays underneath.

In the comic strip, the pair then change into the Downward Facing Pet dog pose, prompting Kelly to admit: “I feel incredibly vulnerable right now.”

“Time for aerobics!” Hunt shouts to a panting Kelly. “Keep up, Kels! Just one…two…”

The pair then lock eyes and clasp palms, exclaiming in unison, “Workout buddies!” The comic strip reveals a correctional officer striding up to Hunt and Kelly’s cell a several times later.

“Ok, it’s rec time gentlem…woah!!” he shrieks on catching sight of the pair’s now-greatly-muscled bodies.“Thanks officer, we’re completely ready…suitable, Kels??” claims the hulking Hunt.

“Oh, yeah!” Kelly replies.“Wait til the fellas in the yard see our gains!”

“This is gonna be awesome, R. ‘Celly!’” Hunt responds in advance of they both of those wander out.

But the comedian strip is not the only do the job of artwork Hunt’s attorneys included in his sentencing memo. A 2nd strip, titled “Our hero discovers the secrets of Santeria!,” is explained in the opening panel as “A micro-masterwork by Brendan Hunt” and follows Hunt on a quest to obtain his launch.

In it, Hunt is sharing a mobile with a detainee named “Garcia,” whom Hunt observes talking to a smaller determine in his suitable hand. “Orshroom! Orshroom! Orshroom!” Garcia claims to the determine which bears a hanging resemblance to Mr. Potato Head.

“Um…are you feeling alright Garcia?” Hunt asks, prompting Garcia to answer: “I just made myself an idol to get me out of prison! His identify is Oshroom! I feed him bananas!”

“Ha! That’s lovable, but you acquired caught with 4 guns bro, you could possibly be right here for a while…” says Hunt. “This $#@* is no joke homie, you’ll see,” Garcia retorts.

In the subsequent panel, a jail guard shouts through the door: “Garcia! You have been released… Let us go!” “Told ya, bunky!” Garcia states on his way out the doorway.

The strip ends with Hunt sitting down alone in his mobile, reciting, “All hail Orshroom, lord of the bananas! I beseech thee…”

Jan Rostal, a person of Hunt’s protection lawyers, explained to The Day-to-day Beast in an e-mail that Hunt’s comics “are intended to be tongue in cheek.”

“The bulk up and the powers of Santeria are exaggerated, I guarantee you! Our shopper is not by yourself in dealing with the dehumanizing extremes of jail, and for the reason that he can, he is drawing what he is looking at,” Rostal added. “These are the ‘fun’ ones but there are lots of dark kinds depicting the horrors of incarceration, but he will preserve individuals for his jail activism stage, continue to be tuned.”