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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

Trump grants second pardon to Jan 6 rioter who had discussed seizing DC in ‘civil war’

For the second time this year, Dan Edwin Wilson, a former January 6 defendant and member of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, received a pardon from President Donald Trump – this time to wipe two possession of an unregistered firearm charges.

Wilson, 50, was among the nearly 1,600 people who received a day-one pardon from the president for their role in the attack on the Capitol. He had been charged with conspiracy to impede or injure an officer at the Capitol.

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