Follow Up of Persons Pardoned for the Jan 6 Capitol Attack

[KaraBulut]

Reminder: this guy was on the streets because Donald Trump pardoned him. He had a previous conviction in 2000 for rape of a child.

https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/florida-man-capitol-riot-child-bribe-jan-6/69486205

Pardoned Capitol rioter accused of child molestation, bribery attempt with possible Jan. 6 payout

A man who stormed the Capitol and was then pardoned by President Donald Trump is accused of child molestation and, according to Florida officials, he tried to use a payout he anticipated from Jan. 6 to silence the victim.

Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, was arrested in Tennessee in August before being extradited to Hernando County in Florida on charges of lewd/lascivious molestation, lewd/lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor...

According to the affidavit, the child said Johnson molested him three times from April to October 2024, beginning when he was 11 years old.

 

[rareboy]

Another one.

A Utah man who was pardoned for firing a gun inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been jailed in a kidnapping and sexual assault case.

Man freed by Trump accused of horrific kidnapping and sexual assault

A Utah man who was pardoned for firing a gun inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been jailed in a kidnapping and sexual assault case.On Tuesday, a Utah court ordered John Banuelos held in jail until a January hearing. Banuelos was charged with kidnapping and sexual assault in...

www.rawstory.com

 

[rareboy]

Once a criminal insurrectionist, always a criminal insurrectionist.

Eventually his real hidden crimes will also come to light because you know this guy is dirty as they come.

https://www.aol.com/articles/pardoned-capitol-rioter-said-jan-223943894.html

 

[KaraBulut]

Who could have ever seen this coming?

The Times has published an editorial on the corruption around Trump's use of the pardons.

Opinion | The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree

The president and the Republican Party deserve to pay a political price for the pardons.

www.nytimes.com

Trump has monetized the pardon pipeline.

The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree

[Trump] has created a veritable pardon industry, in which people with White House connections accept payments from wealthy convicts. Among those on whom he has bestowed freedom are dozens of people convicted of fraud. He has also pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, who helped traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States, and Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for running Silk Road, a sprawling criminal enterprise that sold drugs. There seems to be no crime too ugly for a Trump pardon.

And his self-interested pardon of the violent criminals who participated in his insurrection and coup attempt has produced dozen Willie Horton recidivism examples:

Worst of all, Mr. Trump granted clemency on the first day of his second term to everyone who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He did not distinguish between rioters who were relatively peaceful and those who attacked police officers, as Vice President JD Vance said should be the case. About 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters received a clean slate, regardless of their actions.

The results have been disastrous. At least 12 of the pardoned rioters have since been charged with other serious crimes, including child molestation, assault, harassment, murder plots and charges related to a vicious dog attack. The outcome was predictable. Critics, including this board, had warned that Mr. Trump’s pardons would embolden the rioters by signaling that crime has no consequences. One does not have to be a criminologist to predict that people who commit a violent act and are absolved of any punishment might become repeat offenders.

The American public deserves to understand the mayhem that the Jan. 6 pardons have unleashed. Among the 12 serious recidivists whom we are aware of, four were in jail or prison at the time of the pardon, and they quickly went on to commit more crimes:

 

[rareboy]

So let me get this straight.

The Times is finally publishing an opinion piece on the rancid corruption of Trump's Pardon Mill.

I had to check to make sure it wasn't an April 1st piece.

This is why the Mainstream media is such a pathetic joke now.

If this were the Biden Administration era...actual journalists would have this on the front page for days.

 

[KaraBulut]

...The Times is finally publishing an opinion piece on the rancid corruption of Trump's Pardon Mill.

I had to check to make sure it wasn't an April 1st piece.

Point taken.

Better late than never, I suppose. The irony is that JUB has done a better job of reporting on the Jan 6th insurrectionists than "American's paper of record".

There are other illiberal democracies and autocracies where the free press has been completely captured and tamed. Where there used to be legitimate news stories and editorials about the government, there's Kardashian-style gossip stories. We're not there yet but every time I open an American news "website" and the front page story is about "The Bachelorette" or some Kardashian whore, I see the future of CBS and CNN.

 

[KaraBulut]

"Podium guy" could be a county commissioner in Manatee County, Florida.

Adam Johnson, who was pictured carrying the Speaker of the House's podium on Jan 6th, was pardoned by Donald Trump in Jan, 2025. He now plans on running for public office.

Man who carried Pelosi's lectern during Capitol riot runs for office

Adam Johnson, the man known as \

www.usatoday.com

Adam Johnson, the Florida man who became known as 'Podium Guy' after a photo of him posing with Nancy Pelosi's lectern during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot went viral, is running for public office in the Sunshine State.

Johnson filed to run for the District 6 seat on the Manatee County Commission. He was arrested in 2021 for his role in the insurrection and theft of the lectern, and later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

The lectern was returned to Pelosi, and she stood at it when she signed the article of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Trump pardoned Johnson, along with nearly 1,600 others, the day he took office for his second term on Jan. 20, 2025.

 

[KaraBulut]

And those poor angels who were beaten by the brutal Capitol Police on Jan 6th want to be paid for their misery. Their lawsuit for damages has been filed in... wait for it... the state of Florida.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/30/jan-6-lawsuit-capitol-police-00850890

Members of Jan. 6 mob sue police who fended off Capitol attack

Jan. 6 defendants are hopeful that the administration will look favorably on their claims.

Members of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are suing the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in damages, claiming that the “indiscriminate” use of force by police officers repelling the attack caused them physical and emotional injuries.

The lawsuit, filed in Florida, takes aim at the conduct of Capitol Police and Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, whose outnumbered officers fended off the mob for hours while members of Congress fled.