Pardons
2024
2024-06-28 The Supreme Court threw out all charges on insurrectionist Joseph Fischer.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-rule-for-jan-6-defendant/
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump issued a blanket pardon for nearly 1,600 January 6 defendants, including some individuals with severe sexual-crime histories involving minors. RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO AND VIEWER DISCRETION (the child assault and rape charges are disturbing). Many of the insurrectionists included Proud Boys and Oath Keeper militia members who he called them “hostages”. He pardoned several convicted of sedition including founder of the Oath Keeper militia Stuart Rhodes, and 600 people charged with assaulting law enforcement. Insurrectionists used shields, poles, and cattle prods.
https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-for-reporters-trumps-pardon-of-jan-6th-insurrectionists/
DISTURBING CONTENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_S5sYC1nKw
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7l47xrpko
2025 August
2025-08-07 Jared Wise was hired on as a senior advisor to the Department of Justice, despite being at the J6 riots and caught on camera saying “Kill ‘em all”.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/justice-department-hires-man-charged-jan-6/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1585991/dl
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493197/doj-trump-jan-6-defendant-jared-wise-capitol-riot
2025-08-28 J6 insurrectionists received refunds for their criminal fines.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/28/january-6-rioter-refund-00534475
2025 September
2025-09-18 During an oversight committee hearing, Representative Jasmine Crockett shed light on the extremely violent and disturbing sexual-assault offenses of multiple J6 members who were put back onto our streets by the Trump administration. Many of those sexual criminal cases involved children.
2025-09-25 Casey Goonan was sentenced to 20 years and labeled a terrorist for setting off a series of Molotov cocktails during a protest on Gaza. By contrast, Trump pardoned J6 insurrectionist David Dempsy who pepper sprayed and beat multiple officers during the J6 riot.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/tag/casey-goonan/
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5098764-trump-pardon-violent-jan-6-rioters/
2025 October
2025-10-21 Trump pardoned J6 rioter Christopher Moynihan, who was arrested four days later for threatening to assassinate Hakeem Jeffries.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pardoned-capitol-rioter-charged-threatening-hakeem-jeffries-nyc-trump/
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/21/g-s1-94359/january-6-rioter-pardon-hakeem-jeffries-threat
2025 November
2025-11-08 Prominent January 6 defendant John Banuelos, who had been pardoned by Trump, was arrested on sexual assault and kidnapping charges.
2026 January
2026-01-17 After he was pardoned by Trump, far right activist and J6er Jake Lang tried to hold an anti-Islam protest in Minneapolis.
2026-01-20 Trump pardoned Andrew Paul Johnson, a Capitol-riot defendant who was later accused of sexually abusing a child and attempting to buy the child’s silence with a promised $10 million payment.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-s1-5725470/trump-jan-6-pardon-sexual-abuse-prison
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20260305/118995/HMKP-119-JU00-20260305-SD006.pdf
2026 February
2026-02-05 Pardoned J6er Jake Lang was arrested in Minneapolis after destroying a sculpture displayed by the local Veteran-ran Common Defense organization. One of the Veterans commented, “As a United States Marine, I swore an oath to the Constitution, not a political party; not an agency, the Constitution”. Another Veteran commented, “I gave eight years of my life in service to this country in the military. For a January 6 insurrectionist to destroy our display is an attack on the First Amendment veterans like me fought to defend”.
2026 March
2026-03-31 Several January 6 defendants pardoned by Trump were later charged with new offenses, including assault, harassment, and alleged murder plots.
PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/opinion/trump-jan-6-pardons-crimes-recidivism.html
2026 April
2026-04-14 The same DOJ that wants to fire people for speaking out about Charlie Kirk or deport people for protesting genocide MOVED TO VACATE the most serious J6 convictions by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, making it as though these most severe crimes never even happened.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/doj-moves-vacate-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepers/story?id=132042992
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g-s1-117473/justice-department-toss-seditious-conspiracy
2026 May
2026-05-21 Applications opened for a $1.8 billion compensation fund benefiting January 6 defendants and other Trump allies, including Enrique Tarrio, Mike Lindell, George Santos, Rod Blagojevich, and Adam Johnson.