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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents​


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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents

President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol.
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“President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip that she may have been at the Capitol, officials said Saturday.

In a separate case, Trump issued a second pardon for a Jan. 6 defendant who had remained behind bars despite the sweeping grant of clemency for Capitol rioters because of a separate conviction for illegally possessing firearms.

… Suzanne Ellen Kaye was released last year after serving an 18-month sentence in her threats case. After FBI contacted her in 2021 about a tip indicating she may have been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, she posted a video on social media citing her Second Amendment right to carry a gun and she threatened to shoot agents if they came to her house. In court papers, prosecutors said her words “were part of the ubiquity of violent political rhetoric that causes serious harm to our communities.”

… In a separate case, Trump pardoned Daniel Edwin Wilson of Louisville, Kentucky, who was under investigation for his role in the riot when authorities found six guns and roughly 4,800 rounds of ammunition in his home. Because of prior felony convictions, it was illegal for him to possess firearms.…”
 
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Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say

Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida, including lewd/lascivious molestation, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
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Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say​

Andrew Paul Johnson, 44, faces multiple charges in Florida, including lewd/lascivious molestation, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
 
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I know that issuing pardons in exchange for bribes is a concept that is about 10 seconds younger than the concept of a pardon. And I acknowledge that the concept of paying a bribe for a pardon may have actually been the motivation for the creation of the concept of a pardon. But, I can't help but believe the behavior of Bill Clinton at the end of his second term of office just obiterated any remaining guardrails on the use of the power to pardon created by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution. We reap what we sow.
 
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