Since receiving presidential pardons, dozens of former Capitol rioters have gotten into more legal trouble. In Florida, Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse.
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A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.
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2 police officers relive Jan. 6 through their own bodycam footage
D.C. police officers experienced some of the most intense violence during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. We sat down with two of them to rewatch their body camera footage from that day.
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Trump DOJ hired lawyer who compared Jan. 6 prosecutions to the Holocaust
Before joining the Justice Department this year, attorney Jonathan Gross said Jan. 6 prosecutors were “evil people. They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye.”
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January 6th … the board game?
Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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One of the Jan. 6 defendants has turned down Trump’s pardon
Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.
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Lessons from self-inflicted blows to democracy in South Korea and the U.S.
The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other democracies.
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The Jan. 6 riot included Marines. The military is wrestling with the consequences
A Marine and his buddies joined the mob that entered the Capitol on Jan. 6. They were not the only Marines there. NPR asked the Corps’ top officer a question: Do the Marines have an extremism problem?
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Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol
At two events, Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club hosted a convicted Jan. 6 rioter known for extreme antisemitic and racist comments, whom prosecutors described as a ‘white supremacist.’
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The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises
Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.
