President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned Thomas Caldwell, a retired Navy intelligence official who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rebellion.
Trump recently commuted Caldwell’s statement on his first day in business when he issued size mercy for at least 1, 583 accused charged for their behavior during the rebellion.
He was also recently found guilty of two misdemeanor works, but one was dropped after the Supreme Court limited a national restriction rules used against Jan. 6 accused in June 2024.
Caldwell was arrested in January 2021 for behavior at the Jan. 6 rebellion and spent more than 50 days in jail. An FBI special agent claimed at the time that Caldwell “appears to have a management position” within the Oath Guards, a right-wing militia-type party.
Oath Keepers head Stewart Rhodes was among the 14 defendants even accused of subversive crime and was found guilty and sentenced to 18 years. He eventually received a transmission from Trump.
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At last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, Rhodes and another Jan. 6 members told the Washington Examiner they were thankful for the pardons but wanted the leader to go further and matter a whole pardon.
” I need my soldiers benefits restored”, Rhodes said. ” I got a really harsh letter from the VA saying that because of my faith … I’m a crippled specialist, but they said I have no longer any straight to any disability payments or care, or I can no longer remain buried in a veteran cemetery, which is a really tragic insult to a senior. So I want my rights back, my right to bear arms back. In Texas, where I’m from, I can’t vote”.
Hailey Bullis contributed to this report.
