Conservatives lined up to take photos with recently pardoned January 6 convicts at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday.
For years, supporters of the people arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results for President Donald Trump had found a supportive space at CPAC. Last year, as the conference kicked off in Oxon Hill, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C., attendees shouted “free J6.”