John Earle Sullivan (1995-), also known as Jayden X, was an American Black Lives Matter and Antifa activist who took part in the storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC during the 2021 United States coup d'etat attempt.
Biography
John Earle Stafford was born in Stafford, Virginia in 1995. He grew up in a deeply conservative and Mormon adoptive family which later moved with him to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was raised. He was in an Uber commercial in 2016 relating to his training to be an Olympic speedskater, though he failed to qualify for the Winter 2018 Olympics due to an injury. He later founded Insurgence Media as a social justice activist organization, and he faced criminal charges for a June 2020 Black Lives Matter rally he held during the George Floyd protests. On 6 January 2021, he participated in the storming of the Capitol, claiming to be there to document history, but was also caught encouraging the other insurrectionists to break into the building; he claimed that he had done so in order to blend in. He was detained on 7 January 2021 in connection with the storming of the Capitol, although he claimed that he had not encouraged vandalism or violence, and was merely a journalist. The FBI arrested him on 13 January with an affidavit disputing he was a journalist, charging him with three crimes.
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