Don Jr's ominous warning to people who 'sold out' President elect Donald Trump after Jan. 6

Donald Trump Jr. has issued a stark warning to the people who 'sold out' president-elect Donald Trump after the January 6 riots. 

Trump Jr., 46, told Charlie Kirk on his Real America's Voice show that those who abandoned his father after rioters stormed the Capitol, amid claims that the election was stolen by Joe Biden, were now in 'big, big trouble.'

He said on Kirk's podcast: 'You could be with us before - but if you sold out, if you bought into the narrative, if you said 'oh my God, it's worse than Pearl Harbor, you know, and 9/11 combined'... that's the new day one.

'Now you got four years where we know what we're doing, where we have a chance to start from scratch with people who we know are absolute warriors for the movement. 

'Now you're stuck with that for four years. Now, as Billy Madison would say, now you're all in big, big trouble.'

The January 6 riots in 2021 saw countless Trump supporters storm the Capitol building in Washington DC to disrupt a Congressional session convened to certify the results of the 2020 election. 

Trump encouraged a crowd of people gathered to 'walk down Pennsylvania Avenue' to the Capitol building to 'fight like hell.'

The riots, described by the FBI as 'domestic terrorism', resulted in 140 police officers being injured, four of whom have since committed suicide. Three alleged rioters also died with one being shot and killed by cops, another dying of a heart attack and one seemingly being crushed to death in the mob. 

Since then, the federal government has filed criminal charges against more than 1,500 people, and are reportedly still searching for more alleged participants. 

So far, more than 1,000 people have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty on a range of charges.  

While Trump was acquitted of charges by the Senate during his 2021 impeachment trial following the Capitol riot, the federal case against him in ongoing. 

Just 12 days before the November 5 election, Trump's legal team petitioned the judge to dismiss the entire case by claiming that the office of Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the case, is unconstitutional. 

Trump's lawyers argued: 'Everything that Smith did since Attorney General (Merrick) Garland's appointment, as President Trump continued his leading campaign against President Biden and then Vice President Harris, was unlawful and unconstitutional.'

During his presidential campaign this year, he promised that issuing 'full pardons with an apology to many' would be a top priority to him. 

This promise has begun to affect criminal cases against alleged rioters, with a federal judge last month delaying a case against a Kansas man after he successfully argued that the president-elect made public promises to pardon, or otherwise end prosecutions against, alleged rioters. 

William Pope, representing himself, told U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras: 'The American people gave President Trump a mandate to carry out the agenda he campaigned on, which includes ending the January 6 prosecutions and pardoning those who exercised First Amendment rights at the Capitol. 

'This outcome and new mandate from the people justifies my trial being continued into the next administration.'

Contreras granted the request, delaying the trial that was scheduled for December 2 until at least February 2025, four years after he was first charged with a felony rioting charge and other counts of misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Another judge set the trial date for three defendants for April 15, after a prosecutor admitted she didn't know whether the case would go forward when Trump takes office. 

Elita Amato, an attorney for one of the defendants, told the Washington Post: '[The judge] asked the prosecutor what ultimately they might or might not do in the case, and she really couldn’t say.

'The judge was willing to go [later] to give everyone more time to see what is going to happen.'