A ‘Very Slow Drip’ of Pardoned Jan. 6 Prisoners Leave DC Jail

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Posted on 01/22/2025 2:08:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON—One day after President Donald J. Trump pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 participants and commuted others’ sentences, not all those held at the D.C. Central Detention Facility had been released.

“It’s a very slow drip,” Chaplain Joshua Macias told The Epoch Times just after 7 p.m. on Jan. 21.

He was one of the supporters who had gathered to wait across the street from the D.C. jail, which local law enforcement were guarding. They held American flags and listened to music as they waited in the freezing weather.

At one point, a group of women gathered to do the Trump dance.

Proud Boy Tom Vournas was released a few minutes before 7 p.m. A woman, Stephanie Liu, rushed up to greet him. The New York resident said she had regularly interacted with him during his incarceration.

“He’s very spiritual,” she told The Epoch Times. “He told me, ‘I don’t blame anybody. I even don’t blame the person who report[ed] me.’”

Rhodes was held at the D.C. jail and an Alexandria, Virginia facility before being sentenced to 18 years in federal prison in 2023. He told The Epoch Times that the conditions in that facility, FCI Maryland, were far better than the two others.

“I’m very lucky,” he said, adding that guards never abused him.

“Most guards are conservative. More guards are Trump supporters,” he said.

While he condemned violence that occurred on January 6 four years ago, he said the media had treated his organization unfairly.

“I understand that anger” directed at the media, he said.

One man who said he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 but never faced charges, James Justice, told The Epoch Times that the fateful election certification day four years ago felt like a setup against demonstrators who, in many cases, remained peaceful.

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