Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation, like 9/11 victims

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Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation - The New York Times https://share.google/gGkS0XC9mUZgo0vab


But even though the president has given the rioters their freedom and has taken steps toward satisfying their desire for retribution, they are asking for more. In the past several weeks, the rioters and their lawyers have pushed the Trump administration to pay them restitution for what they believe were unfair prosecutions.

On Thursday, one of the lawyers, Mark McCloskey, said during a public meeting on social media that he had recently met with top officials at the Justice Department and pitched them on a plan to create a special panel that would dole out financial damages to the rioters — much like the arrangement of a special master to award money to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The panel, which Mr. McCloskey called a “voluntary nonjudicial resolution committee,” would consider rioters’ cases individually, he said, then assign them sums according to harms they had purportedly suffered at the hands of the federal government.

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Still, the proposal represented a serious escalation of the efforts to rewrite the history of Jan. 6. If accepted, it would effectively designate members of the mob, whose Capitol break-in upset the lawful transfer of presidential power, as victims of the government and deserving of reparations.