The Devastating Double Standard for January 6 Rioters - by Kali Holloway

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The author does what leftists do, she parrots The Narrative. The Narrative is the official story, the talking points disseminated by talking heads and political operatives, repeated incessantly until they become the "conventional wisdom."

Such is the case with J6. The Left immediately branded it as a violent insurrection where people died or suffered life-altering injuries, which of course is a leftist fairy tale obediently repeated by the national news media and funded by monied anonymous persons. Over time The Narrative has been expanded and embellished to the point that anyone who points out what really happened is mocked and derided into silence as a conspiracy theorist or a Trump True Believer.

As is typical for leftists, the author whines and complains about the very things the Left themselves routinely perpetrate. They are the ones who tear down statutes, burn down car dealerships and corner stores, they are the ones who utter rhetoric dripping with hate, they are the ones who harbor criminals or are criminals themselves, they are the ones who are intolerant, bigoted, repressive, and homophobic.

But the author says it's the J6 demonstrators who represent a double standard. However, when leftists complain about J6 threatening democracy, well, that's exactly what they want to do themselves. When they complain about incivility, they are the ones who are uncivil. When they complain about the rich and income inequality, they are the ones with the money.

But no one on the Left gets held to account because of a complicit media and their comrades who run interference for them. That is, until they finally commit an unpardonable sin, which is when they attract public notice and become a political liability. In such cases they are thrown to the wolves, only to be rehabilitated a few months later.

Bottom line: The Left hates America, referred to as The System. The System is racist and bigoted and must be torn down and replaced by any means necessary. If blood must be shed and cities burned, well, as long as The Agenda is served, the ends justify the means.

So, keep in mind as you read that nothing you find here will be for the purpose of information, clarity, or gaining understanding. It is agitprop, created only to parrot The Narrative in order to further The Agenda.

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The Trump administration wields the full strength of its punitive power against immigrants, political opponents, and marginalized groups—and pardons January 6 offenders.

On April 14, 2026, Trump’s Justice Department filed papers asking an appeals court to erase the convictions for “seditious conspiracy” from the criminal records of a dozen rioters who led the planning for the January 6 insurrection. (There was no insurrection.)

Those convictions resulted from the most serious charges made after January 6, against the masterminds of the operation. All members of the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, these insurrectionists had had their sentences commuted, but now, the DOJ is asking that their convictions also be wiped clean from their records. (Astonishing that the author objects to these non-violent, non-weapon bearing protestors being released, why uttering nary a word about the summer 2020 riots where federal buildings were attacked, businesses were burned, and entire city blocks were commandeered. The rapes, murders, and extreme violence are never acknowledged by leftists like the author.

But some minor activity, where no one was killed, no one was raped, where no one did anything that could be construed as insurrection, were treated with extreme prejudice, hunted down, persecuted, and accused and convicted of crimes they did not commit.

Leftists wrote the book on violent rhetoric and violent behavior. They are the ones who occupy. They are the ones who disrupt. They are the brownshirts who bring the full force of government down on anyone who does not goose step along with them.

The hypocrisy is palpable.)

That same day, in a different court, the DOJ also filed paperwork indicating another J6 rioter, David Daniel, plans to plead guilty to sexually abusing two children, one under the age of 12, as well as possession of child pornography. (Serious charges unrelated to the events of January 6. And by the way, one of the attackers of Kyle Rittenhouse, was a pervert:

Rosenbaum was charged by a grand jury with 11 counts of child molestation and inappropriate sexual activity with children, including anal rape, masturbation, oral sex, and showing minors pornography. The victims were five boys ranging in age from nine to 11 years old. He was convicted of two amended counts as part of a plea deal. 

 

Hmm.

This is a typical tactic of the Left: Magnify your enemy's missteps, real or imgined, while simultaneously ignoring or glossing over the indescretions on your side.)

Daniel had been pardoned by Trump on his first day back in office in January 2025—one of nearly 1,600 insurrectionists convicted or facing pending charges in connection with the Capitol insurrection. (We applaud the President for rectifying this miscarriage of justice.)

Four months before Trump retook office, a magistrate court judge wrote in a court report that evidence in the case against Daniel was “compelling and suggests Defendant engaged in sexual acts with two young girls in his own family,” (Oh. The author is back to the dude's unrelated charges.)

while also noting that Daniel was alleged to have taken and “kept photos of the genitalia of the victims.” Two months later, in a November 2024 affidavit, investigators confirmed that sexually explicit pictures of both minor girls had been found on Daniel’s electronic devices. (One gross pervert, for sure.)

Then Trump was inaugurated, and Daniel received what the White House describes as “a full, complete and unconditional pardon.” (!!! The author lies to us. The link takes us to those the President pardoned, and says:

...all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021...

Hmmm. There was no pardon for unrelated criminal offenses.)

He remains in jail at the orders of the magistrate, who noted “the mother of one victim (Defendant’s ex-wife) appeared in court to request that Defendant not be released” and that, with two siblings in Mexico, he presents a flight risk. (Since he was not pardoned for these crimes, he remains in custody. The author is doing her best to misdirect us.)

But Daniel isn’t an outlier. Roughly 40 insurrectionists have been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for crimes that have nothing to with their actions on January 6, according to The New York Times. (Hmmm. Some people committed other crimes. That surprises the author?

And 40 out 1600 is a pretty low rate, 2.5%.)

At least 12 of those insurrectionists were arrested after being pardoned by Trump. A December 2025 investigative report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington found that six insurrectionists have been charged with sex crimes involving children. Five have been charged with drunk driving—two of them having killed other motorists. Five were arrested for illegal weapons possession, including two who had rap sheets with domestic violence charges. And two have been arrested for rape. (Would the author like to discuss the recidivism rate for New York? Chicago? How about the repeat crimes committed by illegal aliens? Hmmm? No?)

Most of the discussion about J6 centers on how destructive Trump and the MAGA movement have been to core American principles and virtues, including democracy, racial justice, and political civility. (Irony Alert. The Left has been diligently working to dismantle "American principles and virtues" as being antiquated, repressive, and products of a white European male hierarchy.

Regarding "political civility," the author must be referring to decades of political attacks by the Left that are finally being responded to in kind by the Right. Withering rhetoric and hateful speech is all fine and dandy until your enemies start responding in kind.)

But there is also a conversation to be had that is less about principles than people—that is, the flesh-and-blood victims and survivors of harms inflicted by so many of those involved in January 6. Some were hurt by future Capitol rioters before January 6, others in the years between the insurrection and Trump’s pardons. Still others were hurt after the president’s blanket clemency. Just days after Trump retook office, NPR reported that pardoned rioters had started “whipping each other up online with increasingly dire threats” against prosecutors, FBI agents, and Capitol law enforcement who were securing convictions for rioters. One official told the outlet that mistrust of Trump’s DOJ meant most of the rioters’ targets were “already not reporting these threats, because we don’t think they’ll care—unless and until one of us gets killed.” A federal prosecutor stated, “Never have I felt less safe than with these defendants.” (We were waiting for some sort of claims that the J6 protestors committed acts of physical violence. But alas, the J6 protestors only said mean things, apparently. Oh, the humanity!)