In an interview published Friday by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), US navy veteran Jason Riddle said: “It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable.
“I don’t want the pardon. And I … reject the pardon.”
Riddle entered the US Senate parliamentarian’s office, drank a bottle of wine, stole a book and inflicted damage at the Capitol when Trump supporters attacked the building on 6 January 2021 in a desperate attempt to the then president in office after he lost the presidency to Joe Biden weeks earlier, according to court documents. He received a 90-day prison sentence and was fined $750 in April 2022 for pleading guilty to committing misdemeanors in an attack that was linked to several deaths, including officer suicides.
Interesting that the only two so far that I’ve seen that have rejected them, are people who served like 3 months and paid a fine.
Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s not exactly life altering.
I think it’s a symbolic gesture that speaks volumes. This country needs to get together somehow
Yeah. You take the pardon if you’re in jail.
Yeah this dude got off pretty easy.