US EditionTrump Issues Second Pardon to Jan. 6 Defendant
Trump’s second pardon for Daniel Edwin Wilson erases a separate firearms conviction linked to the Jan. 6 investigation that kept him imprisoned despite earlier clemency.
- On Friday, President Donald Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon for Daniel Edwin Wilson, militia member, who was released Friday evening following the pardon, his lawyer said.
- Wilson, who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, communicated with Oath Keepers and Three Percenters affiliates; courts debated whether Trump's January pardon covered his separate gun charges, with Judge Dabney L. Friedrich ruling it did not.
- Federal agents discovered six guns and roughly 4,800 rounds at Wilson's Kentucky home, and he was sentenced in 2024 to five years for conspiring to impede officers and illegal firearms possession.
- A White House official said the firearms were discovered due to January 6 searches, so President Trump is pardoning Wilson for the firearm issues.
- The Justice Department initially argued Trump's Jan. 6 pardons excluded Wilson's gun crime, then changed its stance after receiving further clarity, while Politico reported the weekend pardons expanded clemency to two people not directly tied to the Capitol attack.
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El ComercioU.S. President Donald Trump pardoned for the second time a member of the militia involved in the January 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol, who was in prison for illegal possession of firearms. Trump had already pardoned Dan Wilson, a member of the extreme right-wing group Oath Keepers, on the day of his inauguration on January 20, along with another 1,500 rioters. But Wilson was also sentenced to five years in prison for illegal possession of firear…
U.S. President Donald Trump continues to provoke controversy by pardoning Dan Wilson, another participant in the Capitol assault, reviving the debates on the events of January 6, 2021 The
For the second time, US President Donald Trump pardoned one of the participants in the Capitol assault on January 6, 2021, one of the last to remain in prison for illegal possession of firearms.
On Friday, the presidential pardon decree specifies that grace is "total and unconditional". Donald Trump regularly minimized the gravity of the attack of January 6, 2021, where 1,500 rioters had burst into the Capitol.
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