WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump issued a second pardon for Daniel Edwin Wilson, a Kentucky man convicted for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot and later sentenced to five years for illegal firearm possession. The new pardon, confirmed Saturday by the Associated Press, follows Trump’s sweeping January clemency order for more than 1,600 defendants linked to the Capitol attack.
Wilson had remained in custody because his firearm conviction—stemming from a home search related to the riot—was not covered by the initial pardon. A White House official said Trump’s latest action corrects that oversight, arguing that “authorities should never have been in his home in the first place.”
Prosecutors said Wilson, who communicated with members of the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, planned for the riot and amassed six guns and nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich called Trump’s renewed pardon “extraordinary.” Wilson’s attorney, George Pallas, said the decision allows his client “to reunite with his family and rebuild his life.”
Wilson was released Friday evening, four years before his original 2028 release date.
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