The biggest mass prosecution of our time has been followed by the biggest mass pardons and releases from prison. It all began from protests on January 6, 2021. They sparked numerous controversies still being hashed out today. Did feds instigate violence that day? Were prosecutions weaponized? Was an unarmed protesters shot unjustly? And should there have been pardons? Today, we look at the releases.
The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”
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We were on site at the Washington DC jail as people gathered ahead of the historic mass pardons and releases. Among those here to support their January 6 brethren.. several who’d already done their time.
James Grant: I did about 32 months for pushing a fence, and believe it or not, I actually had a full scholarship to the University of Alabama and Washington and Lee Law schools and January 6th kind of put the kibosh on that.
About 1,300 people were convicted of crimes for storming the Capitol after a pro-Trump rally on January 6, 2021.
Donald Trump January 6, 2021: I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
At the Capitol The vast majority were peacefulbut there were violent clashes between police and some rioters.
January 6 became the biggest mass prosecution event in US history, with Trump’s enemies claiming it was an insurrection that threatened democracy.
Rep. Bennie Thompson July 12, 2022: Donald Trump summoned a mob to Washington, DC and ultimately spurred that mob to wage a violent attack on our democracy.
Others insisted the crowd was incited, then unfairly prosecuted by a weaponized Department of Justice.
Treniss Evans is one of the January 6 attendees who cooperated with the FBI after the rally. Nonetheless, he was awakened one morning at his home by an FBI SWAT team. We first told his story here on Full Measure two years ago.
Surveillance video shows FBI agents, weapons drawn, surrounding the Texas home of Treniss Evans.
Sharyl: It looked like a dozen agents around your house?
Treniss Evans: Oh, it’s a lot more than that. Yeah, so there was 20-plus agents there. They had snipers, they had vehicles to block off the street. I mean, it was insane.
Sharyl: And your 13-year-old son is out on the front deck with his hands up?
Evans: Yeah.
That’s his son, blue shirt, hands up. Considering the presence of a small army from the FBI, you might think Evans was a vicious criminal — armed and dangerous. In fact, he had no history of violence.
This was his crime. He’s in the yellow hat, climbing through a window to enter the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 6.
Evans: People were coming out of the building saying, “The police are letting us in. You can go in, you can just walk around. Everybody’s taking videos, it’s fine.”
Today, Evans welcomes the pardon, even after already serving his jail sentence for simple misdemeanors: entering and remaining in a restricted building.
Evans: 20 days, I was the first person sentenced to weekend prison for January 6th. I went to a maximum security facility where they held me in solitary confinement. They chained me up, like Hannibal Lecter hauled me up to this unit and say, this is where we kept the 911 guys. And then they have to let me out every Monday morning.
Sharyl: So wait, each time you were in solitary confinement for the weekend?
Evans: Yes.
Sharyl: So you’re done with your time?
Evans: Yeah, I’m done with my time. Still on federal probation.
FBI Special Agent Stephen Friend was suspended after refusing to take part in SWAT raids of nonviolent January 6 suspects like Evans.
Sharyl: What did you think was so wrong about the raids?
Stephen Friend: I felt that there was definitely a harder hand in the way that the arrests and the searches were going to be carried out, regardless of the individuals’ involvement in January 6.
The first releases we saw came two days after President Trump’s inauguration.
Rockne Earles: Hey baby, I love you. I’m coming home. Thanks for the support while is in there. She’s an awesome, amazing woman. She’s had to take care of our little farmstead in Northern New Mexico, take care of the critters, run her job, run the household, homeschool her children, and so she’s been busier than the proverbial one arm paper hanger.
Outside the Washington DC jail the mother of the only person violently killed that day. Unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt.
Michelle Witthoeft, Ashli Babbitt’s Mother: Today means that we’ve been working for this for four years, waiting for President Trump to come back into office so that he could pardon the men and women that have been unjustly charged behind the events of January 6th. It also means there’s hope of some sort of investigation into my daughter’s death that never actually happened.
Babbitt was shot by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd as she tried to climb through a broken window in the Capitol. Prosecutors didn’t charge Byrd, concluding there was no evidence he didn’t fear for his life or the lives of Congress when he pulled the trigger.
Those released include the man serving the longest sentence, Enrique Tarrio. The former head of the activist group the Proud Boys was serving 22 years, for “seditious conspiracy.” He wasn’t in DC for the riots, but prosecutors said he organized a plan to storm government buildings.
Tarrio: Friday January 24, 2025: “President Trump said that he was going to view these cases the nature of these cases on a case by case basis, and I think he thoroughly did. People who put their hands on a police officer should get charged with whatever it is, whether it’s assault on a police officer, but that’s not where the problem in these cases lie. The problem is on these cases lie in the miscarriage of justice and how it was performed in these cases in DC.”
More than 160 rioters were charged with using a weapon or violently attacking police. They were pardoned, too.
One poll by a left-leaning group taken before Trump took office showed two-thirds (66%) of Americans opposed pardoning people who committed violent crimes.
But a similar number, 69% did not disagree with pardoning nonviolent offenders.
Like Treniss Evans.
Sharyl: What does that mean to you?
Evans: It means restoration to at least some respect. I mean, I’m on federal probation still. I’m gonna be on federal probation at the end of 2025. I started on federal probation March of 2021. I’m still on it for misdemeanor trespassing. No one hurt, no one damaged. I spoke out against any of those things and yet here I am still because they don’t like the things I say today.
Sharyl: And that goes away with a pardon?
Evans: Goes away.
Sharyl (on camera): Several Capitol rioters committed suicide awaiting sentencing on minor charges. The Justice Department is now dismissing hundreds of cases that were still under active prosecution.
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I believe Fauci should not have received a pardon and any J6 folks convicted of violence against the police.
Trump said he would review case by case and did not do that. He has shown he does not support our police.
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