Former Department of Government Efficiency employee Edward Coristine, better known as “Big Balls,” recalled his August assault that triggered President Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., in his first interview since the incident.

Coristine was asked about what transpired the night he was attacked in an appearance on Fox News’s Jesse Waters Primetime. He replied that he was walking his woman friend to her car after a party at around 3 a.m. when a group of ten boys across the street began to shout at the pair, soon alerting him that “something was really off about the situation.”

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“She unlocks the car, I rush her into the driver’s seat, quickly close the door behind her, and lock the doors. Right as I turn around, they are right up on me, just a few feet away. They slammed me against the car, they started throwing a bunch of punches. I keep my hands up. I’m just like, alright, I’m getting a lot of punches here. Just trying to protect my head the best way I can,” Coristine recalled.

“Luckily, the whole thing did not last too long. The police showed up pretty quickly. I was fortunate I only came out with a broken nose and a concussion. It could have been a lot worse,” he said.

Coristine said he made sure to stand up on his feet, as he felt it would’ve been much worse if he’d been knocked to the ground.

“So you stay on your feet and protect the head because, you know what, Big Balls also has big brains,” host Jesse Waters quipped.

Coristine said the carjacking didn’t make sense, as his friend’s automobile was “like the cheapest car on the block. So it felt like there might have been something else going on there.”

The former DOGE employee also spoke about what brought him to the organization in the first place, recounting the story of his grandfather, Valery “Gentile” Martinov, a KGB agent who turned into a double agent for the CIA, and was executed in 1987 for his work.

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“I feel this great responsibility to serve my country. My grandfather was this KGB double agent for the Americans and he died so that I could come here and live in this free country that I love so much,” Coristine said.

“When I started seeing these problems that we’ve got as a government, this $37 trillion national debt and counting, in the interest on that is just absurd, I was like, this is insane, is there any way I can help solve this? In this administration, there was a chance. So, of course, when I saw the opportunity, I signed right up,” he added.