The Insurrectionist in the Flower Shop
The Insurrectionist in the Flower ShopMIDLAND, Texas—On a 95-degree April day, a florist named Jenny Cudd parked her red pickup and strode up to the local FBI office, her Let’s Go Brandon earrings swinging. She was there to pick up two phones that the authorities had seized—“stole,” according to Cudd—after she stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.An agent named Scott greeted her briskly and slid the phones across the desk. He seemed torn between West Texan politeness and West Texan toughness-on-crime.“How’s the flower business?” Scott asked.“Great,” Cudd said dryly.“Selling flowers?”“Yep.”“Good luck … with the rest of your life, I guess,” he said as Cudd walked out.“What a stupid thing to say,” she tweeted later. In the replies, her followers advised her to throw the phones away—the feds had probably bugged them, they speculated.This is just how Cudd, 38, is acting these days, nearly 18 months after the Capitol siege:…