Nearly 100 of the more than 1,500 January 6 rioters granted clemency by Donald Trump have allegedly gone on to commit separate crimes that include reckless homicide and child molestation, according to a new report by The Lawfare Institute.

The report found that 97 rioters pardoned by Trump were “arrested for and charged with — and in the vast majority of cases convicted of — other crimes,” a count “much higher than the public knew.”

“The alleged crimes by Jan. 6 defendants since Jan. 6, 2021, run the gamut from relatively low-grade offenses like property damage, possession of drug paraphernalia, and trespassing to serious felonies like grand larceny, stalking, planning to assassinate law enforcement officials and prominent politicians, and defrauding government agencies,” the report said. “One Jan. 6 pardonee was convicted in February 2026 of child molestation and sentenced to life in prison. Another was convicted in 2025 of reckless homicide.”

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    You would think getting pardoned by the prez for something this heinous is the stroke of luck of a lifetime, and the lucky sumbitches to whom it happened would use the occasion to stay very, very low for the rest of their wretched lives. Right?

    But no: 7.5% of them managed to waste their good fortune and go right back to the slammer. Being this fucking dumb is nothing short of amazing.

    Then again, the Juice did it too, and he wasn’t a dumbass MAGAt…

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      11 days ago

      But no: 7.5% of them managed to waste their good fortune and go right back to the slammer.

      7.5% … that we know of. Could be there are more committing crimes that just haven’t been caught yet.

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      11 days ago

      As it turns out, gaining a presidential pardon for trying to overthrow the government emboldened some of these freaks into thinking that they can get away with anything.

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      11 days ago

      Anyone with their lips to donnie’s ass is largely immune to federal prosecution if they show up on the TV to get his attention and they know it.

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    10 days ago

    I love that they let go of a child pedophile because of the blanket pardon and then tried to argue that it covered his 100,000 pics of child porn. Go Trump!