Trump’s election interference judge says his Jan 6 pardons can’t ‘whitewash blood, feces, and terror’
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Judges who presided over riot cases deliver blistering rebukes and warn against Trump’s revisionist history. “In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor,” she added. “The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning.”.
![[Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes visit congressional buildings on January 22 after he was released from prison following Trump’s clemency order]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/23/20/2195375648.jpg)
“Yet, this presidential pronouncement of a ‘national injustice’ is the sole justification provided in the government’s motion to dismiss the pending indictment,” Howell continued. “This Court cannot let stand the revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement.”.
![[Andy Kim, then a U.S. congressman and now a U.S. senator, helps ATF officers clean up the damage done in the Capitol on January 6, 2021]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/01/14/05/Congress_Electoral_College_46467.jpg)
District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said that lengthy court filings — including “thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions” — will preserve the history of what happened that day, regardless of the public narrative from Trump’s clemencies.
![[Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio received Trump’s full pardon after he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Capitol attack]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/23/20/2195351032.jpg)
Judge Amy Berman Jackson said dismissing one rioter’s case without the possibility of filing charges in the future would dishonor the “patriots” who defended the Capitol. “When others in the public eye are not willing to risk their own power or popularity by calling out lies when they hear them, the record of the proceedings in this courthouse will be available to those who seek the truth,” she added.
