Text of Trump's pardon of insurrectionists

[dalton99a]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

GRANTING PARDONS AND COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATING TO THE EVENTS AT OR NEAR THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6, 2021
January 20, 2025

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation.

Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I do hereby:

(a) commute the sentences of the following individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, to time served as of January 20, 2025:

• Stewart Rhodes

• Kelly Meggs

• Kenneth Harrelson

• Thomas Caldwell

• Jessica Watkins

• Roberto Minuta

• Edward Vallejo

• David Moerschel

• Joseph Hackett

• Ethan Nordean

• Joseph Biggs

• Zachary Rehl

• Dominic Pezzola

• Jeremy Bertino

(b) grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;

The Attorney General shall administer and effectuate the immediate issuance of certificates of pardon to all individuals described in section (b) above, and shall ensure that all individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, who are currently held in prison are released immediately. The Bureau of Prisons shall immediately implement all instructions from the Department of Justice regarding this directive.

I further direct the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Bureau of Prisons shall immediately implement all instructions from the Department of Justice regarding this directive.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this

twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.

[struggle4progress]

1. We've seen this before

[Charmin One]

2. Of course he pardonned them

After all: he incited them

[Jit423]

3. I know they don't care but Trump and the GOP have shamed themselves and the country. Law enforcement ought to enraged

but most of them are Trump supporters so they won't be. I wish I had enough money to pay the salaries for three years of the Capitol police and DC police who were injured that day so they could turn in their badges and quit in protest.

[gab13by13]

4. He pardoned Tarrio

who was sentenced to 22 years, unless the headline I saw was wrong.

[dalton99a]

5. Yep, Tarrio got a full pardon per section (b)

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Now that the J6ers get to go home. . .

. . .they will have to deal with the public and communities individually, not with the friends they made in jail.

There ARE people out there who don't like them, and will be waiting for them.

And it wouldn’t shock me to learn that certain law enforcement offices and individuals may still be keeping tabs on them and their associates, waiting for them to slip up again. And they WILL slip up.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Stewart Rhodes. That literally makes me want to vomit. He can resume terrorizing his family now.

Fucking klan reject nut job.

[TommyT139]

8. Jessica Watkins is lucky she was jailed by Joe Biden.

Trump's prison system would send her to men''s jail.

The irony, it burns.

[forgotmylogin]

9. A PROCLAMATION

... I've got "fashions himself a crown of some kind" on my bingo card.