Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter convicted on child molestation charges, adding to pattern

[Jim Burton]

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/m ... to-pattern

At a White House event in October, a reporter asked Donald Trump for his reaction to the arrest of a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter after he allegedly threatened to assassinate a congressional leader. “You have thousands of people that we’re dealing with and, you know, if one goes haywire,” the president said, before changing the subject midsentence.

If he were right, and just one of the Jan. 6 criminals he pardoned had ended up in legal trouble again, Trump’s reaction might have been defensible. But the growing list isn’t limited to one name.