When Kevin Loftus became one of the Capitol rioters granted a sweeping pardon by new US President Donald Trump , he walked out of the Philadelphia prison where he was being held and drove overnight to Washington without even stopping to change his clothes. Sarsfield, standing with Loftus outside the Washington prison where many of the Capitol rioters had been held on the chilly Tuesday morning, had been convicted of disturbing the peace on January 6. The Capitol assault followed a fiery speech by then-president Trump to tens of thousands of his supporters near the White House in which he repeated his false claims that he won the 2020 race.
Author: Agence France-Presse
Published at: 2025-01-21 23:33:12
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