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Crime Spree of Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters Revealed as Worse Than Known
Sports & Fitness
- When:
- June 5, 2026 · 9:09 AM
- Where:
- Bombshell Secret RFK Jr. Audio Recordings Unearthed
- Source:
- Bombshell Secret RFK Jr. Audio Recordings Unearthed
Carlos Barria / REUTERS At least 97 of the more than 1,500 Capitol rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump have since been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of crimes unrelated to Jan. 6. The figure, published Thursday by the independent legal outlet Lawfare, is nearly triple the largest prior tally and amounts to nearly one in 16 of the insurrectionists swept up in the clemency order Trump, 79, signed on his first day back in office. The crimes “run the gamut,” Lawfare reports, from l