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Jan 21 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Here are some of the Jan. 6 defendants who received a full and unconditional pardon from Trump tonight:
David Dempsey was convicted of repeatedly assaulting police officers with pepper spray, a metal crutch and wooden and metal poles and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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Daniel Rodriguez was convicted of using a stun gun and “plunging it” multiple times into police officer Michael Fanone's neck, in the words of prosecutors. Rodriguez was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.

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Peter Schwartz, according to the DOJ, was convicted of "Wielding a large MK-46 canister and carrying a wooden tire thumper, Schwartz began indiscriminately spraying O.C. spray at any retreating police officers he could find."

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Here's Ryan Nichols, who pleaded guilty to assaulting officers with pepper spray and yelled “If you have a weapon, you need to get your weapon!”

Keith Packer stormed the Capitol while wearing a "CAMP AUSCHWITZ" sweatshirt. Underneath was another Nazi-themed shirt.

Packer was sentenced to 75 days in jail for non-violent offenses.

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Julian Khater pleaded guilty to pepper spraying Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the face.

Sicknick died the following day due to two strokes. Though his cause of death was officially considered "natural," his family blames the violence.

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Thomas Webster was convicted of tackling a police officer to the ground and attempting to remove his mask and helmet.

"The officer struggled to breathe," according to prosecutors, and "others in the mob began kicking the officer."

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Christopher Quaglin was sentenced to 12 years in prison for repeatedly assaulting officers, tackling one to the ground, assaulting them with riot shields, and spraying officers with a chemical spray directly in their faces, per prosecutors.

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Jan 6
As Donald Trump prepares to pardon people convicted for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, it's worth looking at what leading Republicans said in the immediate aftermath of that day's violence.

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“A shrine to democracy for our country, and the world, was overrun by violent extremists seeking to overturn an election," said @SenJohnThune in Jan. 2021. "We must hold those responsible to account."

Thune is now Senate Majority leader.

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@SenJohnThune Here's what @SenJohnBarrasso - another Senate Republican leader - said on Jan. 6

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Dec 2, 2024
NEW:

@DineshDSouza has issued an apology over his election conspiracy film “2,000 Mules” on his website.

D’Souza admits that the heart of the film - surveillance footage of vote drop boxes supposedly showing illegal “ballot trafficking” - is false and misleading. Image
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D’Souza’s apology is directed at a Georgia voter named Mark Andrews, who was depicted in the film as a ballot “mule,” when he was legally dropping off ballots for his family members.

Andrews has sued D’Souza and True the Vote over his appearance in the film, book and promos.
Earlier, the film’s distributor Salem Media apologized to Andrews and said it would halt distribution of “2,000 Mules.”

Salem’s apology was connected to a settlement, but D’Souza says his apology is *not* part of any legal settlement, but “because it is the right thing to do”.
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Oct 30, 2024
There were Jan. 6 rioters who carried guns during the attack on the Capitol.

At a Univision town hall this month, Trump claimed "we didn't have guns," referring to his supporters.

Here's how we know that's wrong

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Guy Reffitt was the first Jan. 6 defendant to go to trial.

He was convicted of carrying a handgun onto Capitol grounds. He left his AR-15-style rifle back at his hotel.

Reffitt recorded himself bragging to other Trump supporters that he was armed.
Mark Mazza pleaded guilty to carrying two loaded handgun on Jan. 6.

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Oct 22, 2024
NEW:

We reviewed Trump’s speeches, interviews, and social media posts since 2022 and found that he has made more than 100 threats to investigate, prosecute, jail or otherwise punish his opponents, whom he sometimes calls “the enemy from within.”

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First and foremost, Trump targets his political opponents.

If he wins the presidential election, he has promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate President Biden and Biden’s family on his first day in office.
Now that Vice President Harris is his opponent, Trump said she should also be “impeached and prosecuted.”
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Sep 12, 2024
NEW:

Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club hosted a convicted Jan. 6 rioter and alleged Nazi sympathizer twice this summer, where he was celebrated and gave speeches.

At one event, Trump sent a video praising the attendees as “amazing patriots.”

At the other, he won an award.
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The rioter, Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, has a lengthy and well-documented history of extreme racist and antisemitic comments.

He allegedly told coworkers, “Hitler should have finished the job.”

In 2020, he posted a lengthy video rant against Jewish communities in New Jersey.
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He served nearly three years in prison for nonviolent offenses on Jan. 6, and is currently appealing his conviction on the felony obstruction charge that the Supreme Court recently narrowed.

Since leaving prison, he’s gone on a tour of far-right media.
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May 31, 2024
The publisher of @DineshDSouza's election conspiracy theory film and book "2,000 Mules" has issued an apology to a Georgia voter accused in the film of illegal voting in the 2020 election.

"There will be no future distribution of the film or the book by Salem." Image
@DineshDSouza Some key context Salem is a co-defendant, along with Dinesh D'Souza and True the Vote, in a lawsuit filed by this voter, Mark Andrews.

He is represented by lawyers with @protctdemocracy, which also represented the Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation.
@DineshDSouza @protctdemocracy Story coming.

Protect Democracy declined to comment on Salem's statement.

I've also reached out to their co-defendants in the lawsuit, @truethevote and @DineshDSouza.
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