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Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters
Push for Compensation
Sept 3
The rioters who attacked the Capitol on
Jan. 6, 2021, secured a shocking double
victory this year.
President Trump granted them clemency
for their crimes on his first day back
in the White House, and in the months
that followed, he allowed his Justice
Department to purge many of the federal
agents and prosecutors who sought to
hold them accountable.
But even though the president has given
the rioters their freedom and has taken
steps toward satisfying their desire for
retribution, they are asking for more.
In the past several weeks, the rioters
and their lawyers have pushed the Trump
administration to pay them restitution
for what they believe were unfair
prosecutions.
On Thursday, one of the lawyers, Mark
McCloskey, said during a public meeting
on social media that he had recently
met with top officials at the Justice
Department and pitched them on a plan
to create a special panel that would
dole out financial damages to the
rioters u much like the arrangement of
a special master to award money to the
victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks.
The panel, which Mr. McCloskey called a
ovoluntary nonjudicial resolution
committee,o would consider riotersA
cases individually, he said, then assign
them sums according to harms they had
purportedly suffered at the hands of the
federal government.
Mr. McCloskey said that he wanted the panel
to be overseen by Jeanine Pirro, who runs
the federal prosecutorsA office in Washington
that took the lead in filing charges against
nearly 1,600 rioters who joined in the Capitol
attack.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-jan-6-rioters-compens >ation.html
Mr. McCloskey said that he wanted the panel
to be overseen by Jeanine Pirro, who runs
the federal prosecutors' office in Washington
that took the lead in filing charges against
nearly 1,600 rioters who joined in the Capitol
attack.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-jan-6-rioters-compens >ation.html