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BeyondGeography

(40,757 posts)
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 02:05 PM Nov 19

January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse

Source: The Guardian

A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and was pardoned by Donald Trump earlier this year has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida, according to local authorities.

The man, identified as 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson, was taken into custody in August in Tennessee and extradited to Florida where, according to arrest records, he faces charges of lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor.

…A probable cause affidavit alleges that in July, the Hernando county sheriff’s office received a report that “two juveniles had fallen victim to lewd and lascivious acts over a many-month span.” The report states that officers spoke with the mother of one of the children, who said that she discovered that Johnson, who was described as her ex-boyfriend who formerly lived in the house, had been sending “inappropriate” Discord messages to her son. The woman said she asked her son about the messages and also asked if Johnson had “done or said anything inappropriate” to which she said her son told her “that between April 1 2024 and October 2024” Johnson had “molested him three times”, beginning when he was 11 years old.

The report also alleges that Johnson told the child that “he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6er’” and that he would be “putting him in his will to take any money he had left over”. Investigators state that “this tactic was believed to be used to keep” the child “from exposing what Andrew had done to him”. Investigators state that “this tactic was believed to be used to keep” the child “from exposing what Andrew had done to him”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/january-6-rioter-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-crimes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse (Original Post) BeyondGeography Nov 19 OP
Trump Pardon Recipient Crime Wave ck4829 Nov 19 #1
Only the best.............. Lovie777 Nov 19 #2
Very fine people! WmChris Nov 19 #6
Oh but his followers are just law loving "christians." BlueKota Nov 19 #3
Isn't there even one good apple in that barrel??? marble falls Nov 19 #4
That the question that I ask about all Maggots. efhmc Nov 19 #9
Nope, just maggots. calimary Nov 19 #16
Probably cannabis_flower Nov 19 #18
Willie Horton Who? Hieronymus Phact Nov 19 #5
At this rate, within 10 years Wednesdays Nov 19 #7
10 years? More like 5 months. Initech Nov 19 #8
More than likely popsdenver Nov 19 #17
The only outrage by other MAGA J6er's will be where is my $10M? Bengus81 Nov 19 #10
Absolutely horrible. Those poor children..... democrank Nov 19 #11
but yet Trump has not been arrested twodogsbarking Nov 19 #12
Was this pardon done with an Autopen ? republianmushroom Nov 19 #13
When there are too many rotten apples, there's something wrong with the orchard IronLionZion Nov 19 #14
The diseased fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. BattleRow Nov 19 #22
May all involved receeive everything they deserve. niyad Nov 19 #15
I guess Trump didn't realize COL Mustard Nov 19 #19
Trump will likely pardon him again iemanja Nov 19 #20
GOP BaronChocula Nov 19 #21
That's on Trump, but he doesn't care. Fla Dem Nov 19 #23
Upstanding citizen.nt jfz9580m Nov 19 #24
So that pardon wasn't a pardon for all crimes, past, present and future? Aussie105 Nov 19 #25
Sounds Like A Job For Trump's AG Pick, Matt Gaetz DrFunkenstein Nov 19 #26
Arepublicans are predators . Bread and Circuses Nov 20 #27
Are all these people pervs? Joinfortmill Nov 20 #28
Big surprise! J6ers are child molesters! Clouds Passing Nov 20 #29

BlueKota

(4,959 posts)
3. Oh but his followers are just law loving "christians."
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 02:09 PM
Nov 19

Surely one of those people who was just a peaceful "tourist on that1/6" would never have committed such a heinous act.

I guess they also play follow their orange leader in almost every aspect of their lives.

cannabis_flower

(3,914 posts)
18. Probably
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 04:43 PM
Nov 19

The woman who refused a pardon and renounced Trump. She seems to have realized she was in a cult

popsdenver

(1,154 posts)
17. More than likely
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 04:38 PM
Nov 19

the J6th insurrectionists will be given high paying, priority jobs in ICE...........Seriously, if not already happening.......

democrank

(12,014 posts)
11. Absolutely horrible. Those poor children.....
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 03:37 PM
Nov 19

Right….Let’s give those J6ers a huge financial reward.

COL Mustard

(7,851 posts)
19. I guess Trump didn't realize
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 04:51 PM
Nov 19

This guy was a drag queen!!!



(I’m assuming he’s not a drag queen, but they want to blame drag queens for anything like this.)

iemanja

(57,193 posts)
20. Trump will likely pardon him again
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 04:57 PM
Nov 19

as he did for the other recidivist criminal. Pedophiles of a feather . . .

The Democrats need to make campaign ads with this stuff.

Aussie105

(7,463 posts)
25. So that pardon wasn't a pardon for all crimes, past, present and future?
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 10:58 PM
Nov 19

Bit of a bad planning thing there!

DrFunkenstein

(8,884 posts)
26. Sounds Like A Job For Trump's AG Pick, Matt Gaetz
Wed Nov 19, 2025, 11:20 PM
Nov 19

Oh, wait. Did something happen to that guy? Wasn't he supposed to be in charge of the Epstein files as Attorney General? I guess like with Roy Moore, even Trump's best efforts to defend a child molester are sometimes not enough.

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