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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Another convicted January 6 US Capitol attacker rejects Trump’s pardon

Trump holds up an executive order pardoning people convicted of the January 6 US Capitol attack.
Trump holds up an executive order pardoning people convicted of the January 6 US Capitol attack. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

At least one more person who was convicted in connection with the 2021 US Capitol attack carried out by Donald Trump supporters has rejected a pardon from the president, saying he believed his actions “weren’t pardonable”.

In an interview published Friday by New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), US navy veteran Jason Riddle said: “It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable.

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