A federal attorney who prosecuted many of the Jan. 6 protesters cautioned the nation in a New York Times opinion piece published Friday that the pardoned men and women “have never been more dangerous.”
Within a few hours of taking office on Monday, President Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders. Among them was granting a “full, complete and unconditional” pardon to roughly 1,500 of the 1,583 defendants charged in the Jan 6, 2021, riots on Capitol Hill.
Brandon Ballou was one of the attorneys assigned by the Department of Justice to prosecute those who pushed back against police and trespassed on federal property. According to Ballou, Trump’s ultimate purpose of the pardons was not to correct a miscarriage of justice but to “encourage vigilantes and militias loyal to the president, but unaccountable to the government.”
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