Exclusive: January 6 Rioter Tells the Sun From Jail That Trump ‘Outdid Expectations’ by Pardoning Him of Violent Crimes

The 47th president’s clemency went so far as to clear a rioter accused of wielding a baseball bat against police officers.

Via public account on Instagram
Edward Jacob Lang via Instagram. Via public account on Instagram

President Trump “outdid expectations” with his sweeping acts of clemency for the January 6 riot, one of those rioters accused — but not yet tried or convicted — of violent crimes, Edward Jacob Lang, tells the Sun, in an exclusive interview by telephone before his expected release from a cell at the District of Columbia jail.

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