Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, June 05, 2026

Number of Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters that Have Faced Other Charges

A Lawfare study reveals that almost one in 16 insurrectionists subject to the president's clemency order has been arrested for and charged with -- and in the vast majority of cases convicted of -- other crimes, at least some of which were actively enabled by the clemency actions.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 03:30 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

Menu

Front Page
Breaking News
Comments
Flagged Comments
Recently Flagged
User Blogs
Write a Blog Entry
Create a Poll
Edit Account
Weekly Digest
Stats Page
RSS Feed
Back Page

Subscriptions

Read the Retort using RSS.

Drudge Retort RSS feed RSS Feed

Author Info

reinheitsgebot

Joined 2006/11/29
Visited 2026/06/05

Status: user

MORE STORIES

Number of Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters that Have Faced Other Charges (4 comments) ...

Pedo 47’s ICE Thugs To Stop Reporting Detainee Deaths (3 comments) ...

Nearly 60 Illnesses Linked to Raw Milk Consumption in Idaho (21 comments) ...

Albanians Protest Proposed Resort Linked to Ivanka and Jared (4 comments) ...

Pentagon Appoints Convicted Jan. 6 Rioter to Counter-Terrorism Role (8 comments) ...

More

Alternate links: Google News | Twitter

NEW: @katherinepomps.bsky.social has compiled the most comprehensive study currently available of the crimes alleged against Jan. 6 pardonees in the years since their prosecutions for the insurrection. View the database:

[image or embed]

-- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) 12:10 PM · Jun 4, 2026

Comments

Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

Cool... 97 more Trump employees!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-04 02:49 PM | Reply

At least 14, meanwhile, have been charged with sex crimes or crimes related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and at least six have faced domestic violence charges. Others have faced charges for physical assaults, illegal firearms possession, or other violent crimes.

This is who pedo pisswig wants to reward through his slush fund.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-06-04 03:03 PM | Reply

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-04 04:16 PM | Reply

Anyone thinking these people would not commit crimes are stupid.

They already actively participated in the violent overthrow of a presidential election.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-05 07:52 AM | Reply

Post a comment

The following HTML tags are allowed in comments: a href, b, i, p, br, ul, ol, li and blockquote. Others will be stripped out. Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

Anyone can join this site and make comments. To post this comment, you must sign it with your Drudge Retort username. If you can't remember your username or password, use the lost password form to request it.
Username:
Password:

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy
Drudge Retort