January 6 prisoners lost jobs and families – pardon won’t erase scars of Biden’s ‘scorched earth’ campaign, says lawyer
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DONALD Trump's stunning blanket pardoning for the January 6 protestors won't repair the pain already dished out, a leading defense attorney has told The U.S Sun. John Pierce represented over 50 people who were charged following the now-infamous storming of the Capitol in 2021.
![[President Trump holding a signed document.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/u-s-president-donald-trump-965383484.jpg?strip=all&w=805)
One of his clients, Casey Cusick, told The U.S. Sun last weekend about his own personal nightmare of being thrown into a cockroach-infested jail for 10 days full of sex offenders despite being nowhere near any of the violence four years ago. Cusick and thousands of Republicans descended to the nation's capital to protest Joe Biden's election win in 2020, only to leave with their lives in disarray.
![[Pro-Trump supporters storming the US Capitol building.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/2021-washington-dc-trump-supporters-656755212.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The podcast host and Oklahoma car salesman was confident the returning POTUS would follow through with his claims and erase all charges. And, sure enough, Cusick, along with 1,500 fellow protestors, was celebrating on Monday night after Trump wasted no time by wiping the slate clean, including those convicted of attacking police officers.
![[Headshot of David Pierce.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/david-pierce-sent-frances-mulraney-965581705.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But Pierce claims some irreparable damage has already been done - and nothing can erase the nightmare of watching their "irrevocably altered" lives fall apart. "Many of these individuals have lost everything and bear deep scars from the process," the Florida-based attorney told The U.S. Sun.
![[Body camera footage of John George Todd III inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda on January 6, 2021.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/image-video-police-worn-body-965574210_e2d64e.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"While a pardon is a formal forgiveness of the crime and restores civil rights like voting or holding a passport, it doesn’t undo the emotional, financial, or social toll.". While Cusick has been able to resurrect his life and will crucially have his criminal record expunged, another of Pierce's clients - John George Todd - is struggling to stay afloat.
![[Robert Morss speaks to the press after his sentence is pardoned.]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/robert-morss-speaks-press-released-965531972.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
