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The first active-duty service member to be charged in relation to the events of January 6. He allegedly pushed through a line of police officers guarding the Capitol's East Rotunda doors, held them open for others to enter the building, and later pushed a Capitol police officer who attempted to close them. [179] [180] [181] January 19, 2021
The remaining 14 people, though their convictions stood, were eligible for immediate release from prison, as he commuted their sentences to "time served." [18] [2] Trump himself had been indicted in August 2023 for his actions related to the Capitol attack, but the indictment was dismissed after his 2024 election.
Matthew Huttle, was sentenced in November 2023 to six months in prison and a year of supervised release for entering the Capitol and multiple offices. Huttle had a prior criminal record which included a sentence of 2.5 years in prison for beating and injuring his 3-year-old son. [55]
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has promised to grant clemency to at least some of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in a failed bid to block Congress from ...
Rally organizers told the National Park Service that they anticipated 30,000 people would attend. Law enforcement said the crowd size ahead of the protest was possibly as much as 80,000, according ...
The former president even featured a song by the “J6 Prison Choir,” a group of men imprisoned for their participation in the attack on the Capitol, at his first 2024 campaign rally.
The Secret Service denied this, [180] with Watkins later changing her story, [181] and being sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2023. [ 182 ] Mo Brooks was a featured speaker at the rally and spoke around 9 a.m., where he said, "Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass".
[71] [72] At 4:17 p.m., faced with the prospect of being removed from the presidency by invocation of the 25th Amendment, [citation needed] Trump released a video telling attackers to "go home". [73] Then-Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller finally approved deployment of the National Guard at 4:32 p.m. [ 74 ]