Mother of South Carolina neo-Nazi leader arrested on Jan. 6 charges

A South Carolina restaurant owner who brought her then-teenage son — now a neo-Nazi leader — to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol.

Christina Praser-Fair, who runs the Cornwallis House Tea Company in Winnsboro, South Carolina, was arrested Thursday and charged with disorderly and disruptive conduct and other violations, according to a federal arrest warrant.

Praser-Fair traveled to Washington, D.C. with her mother and her son, David Fair, who went on to join the white nationalist group Patriot Front and lead Southern Sons Active Club. The latter group is part of a network of neo-Nazis active across the Southeast.

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Following the attack on the Capitol, Praser-Fair told a local TV news station that she and her family “got to the Capitol building,” and were positioned next to scaffolding set up for the inauguration.” She did not mention going inside the Capitol. A year later, Praser-Fair reportedly told another outlet that she did not expect “backlash” once she returned home to South Carolina, but that she had no regrets.

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Video surveillance footage showed Praser-Fair “and her son, a minor,” inside the Capitol on 17 different cameras for roughly 27 minutes, according to the charging document .

David Fair disclosed on a Telegram channel for racist skinheads in the United States and Europe in November 2023 that he was “no longer allowed to enter military bases,” as previously reported by Raw Story. Fair went on to say, “I honestly don’t know if it’s the fact that I’m the leader of a white nationalist group or January 6 involvement.”

It remains unclear why Fair would have visited military bases considering he is not a military service member.

Reached by Raw Story on Thursday, David Fair declined to say whether he expects to also face charges for his activities at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Two months after Raw Story reported on David Fair’s ban from military bases, he participated in a brief flash rally in February 2024 with a small group of neo-Nazis outside reporter Jordan Green’s home in Greensboro, N.C. Fair and three other men held emergency flares while making Hitler salutes. Other participants included Tennessee Active Club leader Sean Kauffmann and Jarrett William Smith , who previously served a prison sentence for distributing bomb-making instructions.

Another man, a U.S. Army soldier named Kai Nix who was based at Fort Liberty, photographed the stunt and published the images on Telegram. Nix has since been indicted for selling stolen firearms and lying on his military application to conceal the fact that he was a member of an extremist group. He is now separated from the Army.

When reached by phone at his mother’s home in South Carolina on Thursday, David Fair expressed concern that his extremist activities would reflect badly on his mother.

“I do not wish to speak with you,” he said. “I believe you are celebrating this news. I believe you are a bad actor. I do not respect you. I don’t wish you any harm. I believe you will turn a narrative and work to make my mother look bad because of my actions.”

David Fair said he couldn’t promise that he would pass along Raw Story’s request for comment to his mother.

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