Trump Pardoned Him. He Pulled a Gun on Someone at Church.
Bulwark Takes
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
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Summary
Tim Miller gives his take on the troubling pattern involving several January 6 defendants who were pardoned by Donald Trump and have since been re-arrested or charged with new crimes in the last year. Recent cases include allegations ranging from assault and harassment to child sexual exploitation charges, as well as violent threats against elected officials, including Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tim Moore from the Bowork here. |
| 0:02.2 | I came across this story about a January 6er who was charged in Texas on Sunday for deadly conduct and harassment. |
| 0:12.7 | And it made me kind of think, we should circle back on this and like do an accounting of what the state of play is with all of the |
| 0:22.0 | criminals that Donald Trump pardoned because they were soldiers in his effort to overturn |
| 0:27.4 | the democracy and assess, you know, what that says about the law and order party and, |
| 0:35.1 | you know, whether they actually care about keeping people safe and so i kind of |
| 0:39.0 | run through everything uh maybe even in a way that you could uh send around to people in your life |
| 0:45.4 | because i presume that most people who aren't actual insurrection themselves um people who genuinely |
| 0:51.8 | care about law and order uh would be pretty outraged when they learn about |
| 0:58.0 | the scale of reoffending that we've seen from people who are pardoned by Trump. |
| 1:05.0 | So overall, crew had done a report in December that at least 33 January 6th insurrectionists pardoned by Trump |
| 1:12.7 | were re-arrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes. That number has increased since then. |
| 1:20.6 | And so I wanted to go through like the last couple months, just the period of March, April and May |
| 1:27.1 | and look at what has happened |
| 1:28.7 | with January Sixers in our courts. I want to start here with Andrew Paul Johnson. He had |
| 1:33.4 | pled guilty for climbing into the Capitol through a broken window. You can see the picture of him |
| 1:39.4 | here. He described himself as a proud J. Sixer. He on the bullhorn, in his bullhorn on January 6th, he shouted, we have a fucking job to finish. |
| 1:48.9 | He also called himself on social media and American terrorist. |
| 1:52.5 | You can see right here his ex-bio, Proud J-Sixer, Nietzschean, anarcho-capitalists. |
| 1:59.1 | You know, wasn't exactly like the type of guy that just accidentally |
| 2:01.6 | ended up to the Capitol that day. This was somebody who was an active, self-identified |
| 2:07.3 | participant in the attempt to overturn the election. He was sentenced to life in prison two months |
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