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Pardoned Jan 6 rioters seek financial restitution from the Trump administration for perceived unfair prosecutions. Lawyers are pushing for a special panel to award damages, escalating efforts to rewrite the events of January 6th.
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Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation By Alan Feuer Aug. 31, 2025 The rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, secured a shocking double victory this year. President Trump granted them clemency for their crimes on his first day back in the White House, and in the months that followed, he allowed his Justice Department to purge many of the federal agents and prosecutors who sought to hold them accountable. But even though the president has given the rioters their freedom and has taken steps toward satisfying their desire for retribution, they are asking for more. In the past several weeks, the rioters and their lawyers have pushed the Trump administration to pay them restitution for what they believe were unfair prosecutions. On Thursday, one of the lawyers, Mark McCloskey, said during a public meeting on social media that he had recently met with top officials at the Justice Department and pitched them on a plan to create a special panel that wo...
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