By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-21 15:32:38 | Updated at 2025-01-24 00:46:21
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First two Jan. 6 prisoners released after Trump’s Day 1 pardon
nypost.com ^ | Jan. 21, 2025 | Allie Griffin
Posted on 01/21/2025 6:29:17 AM PST by V_TWIN
Two brothers convicted in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack became the first of the rioters to be freed late Monday after President Trump issued Day 1 pardons to hundreds of the participants.
Andrew and Matthew Valentin, from Stroudsburg, Pa., were released from the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC, just before midnight, Trump administration officials announced outside the jail — adding that Elon Musk was “the mastermind” behind their sudden freedom.
“The first two January 6 defendants have been released. This is a few hours after President Trump signed his historic pardon,” the White House liaison to the Justice Department, Paul Ingrassia, told reporters, calling the pardon a “monumental moment in our history.”
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1 posted on 01/21/2025 6:29:17 AM PST by V_TWIN
To: V_TWIN
Why aren’t they all released at Midnight last night?
2 posted on 01/21/2025 6:31:57 AM PST by suasponte137
To: V_TWIN
Looking forward to hearing what all of these political prisoners have to say about their treatment in the DC gulag. And I hope that collectively, they can bring down many of the people responsible for it.
3 posted on 01/21/2025 6:35:17 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: V_TWIN
I heard there were a bunch of college loan deadbeat, Hammie wannabes at the prison protesting the J6 pardons being released. Hypocrite ahos forgot about “protesting” all the pardons handed out by their butt buddy, Pedo Joe. Retarded HATER Hypocrites.
4 posted on 01/21/2025 6:35:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
To: suasponte137
5 posted on 01/21/2025 6:37:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: Sicon
I’d like to see President Trump compensate these people in some way......4 years in prison is a long damned time....especially for someone who’s never experienced it.
6 posted on 01/21/2025 6:45:11 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: V_TWIN
Next step—no rush but should be done at some point:
...A formal WH ceremony honoring the J6 political prisoners as American heros abused by a vicious and cruel Democrat administration. They should be given plaques or medals they can show their children and grand-children—so their valor will be commemorated.
7 posted on 01/21/2025 6:45:14 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I doubt they were out there long considering it was single digit temperatures yesterday.
8 posted on 01/21/2025 6:46:25 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: cgbg
Financial compensation is what I would like to see
9 posted on 01/21/2025 6:47:23 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
To: V_TWIN
I hope their cellphones froze up and they couldn’t get paid.
10 posted on 01/21/2025 6:47:37 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Dark Days are over. We don't want your criminals. Stop sending your scum to America!)
To: V_TWIN
“Rioters.”
This is why I hate the mainstream media.
11 posted on 01/21/2025 6:48:24 AM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
To: V_TWIN
That makes sense as well—but I want to see them get some formal written recognition for their sacrifice.
12 posted on 01/21/2025 6:50:54 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: V_TWIN
Liz Cheney says Trump is wrong, that the J6 committee did not destroy any records after they were done, and they are all online for the world to see.
What percentage of her statement is true, fact checkers?
13 posted on 01/21/2025 6:58:54 AM PST by lurk (u)
To: V_TWIN
DOJ moving rapidly to process the J6 pardons ...
14 posted on 01/21/2025 7:17:56 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
To: cgbg
We need an investigation of the J6 committee notwithstanding the pardons and to look for any coverups, destruction of evidence.
I think any investigation would focus on the coverups.
Schiff has stated that he refused the pardon so he’s a target. The staffers are still on the hook.
The others have to cooperate or face contempt and if they testify then perjury.
If we don’t want this to happen again, this MUST happen.
15 posted on 01/21/2025 7:24:39 AM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
To: V_TWIN
Shut down the central facility gulag and make it part of the smithsonian as the first american gulag.
16 posted on 01/21/2025 7:25:18 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
To: V_TWIN
President Trump should give EVERY one of these patriots the “Medal of Freedom” and restitution for the crimes against THEM by the previous criminal MALadministration.
17 posted on 01/21/2025 7:31:04 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Sicon
“Looking forward to hearing what all of these political prisoners have to say about their treatment in the DC gulag. And I hope that collectively, they can bring down many of the people responsible for it.”
Anyone in government who participated in the J6 hostage taking and didn’t get a pardon have a very large target on their backs. And the J6 committee will have to appear, and because they cannot take the 5th they will have to come clean on whose idea was it.
On a different note, Pelosi’s kid was there filming. Those videos need to be immediately confiscated. Refusal to do so, can be met with jail time. And there will be nothing Pelosi can do to help.
18 posted on 01/21/2025 7:31:25 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
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