President Trump granted pardon and commutations to 1,583 people on January 20, 2025.
Speakers were: Ryan Samsel who was incarcerated January 30, 2021 until January 21, 2025; his girlfriend Raechel Genco GiveSendGo; their Phil Grillo, December 6, 2024 until January 21, 2025 his GiveSendGo; Paula Calloway, who founded the PatriotMailProject.com; and Suzzanne Monk, founder of the J6 Pardon Project.
Ryan Semsel was held in detention for nearly four years, was assaulted by interrogators. Bench trial was held, and was convicted 3 years later on February 2, 2024. Formal sentencing was issued on January 19, 2025.
Raechel Genco took a plea deal, and had to wear an ankle bracelet for 19 months plus one year probation. She could work, but must be at house from 10 pm to 8 am everyday. When her probation neared an end, her probation officer cited an non-J6-related misdemeanor charge to extend her monitoring.
Phil Grillo was offered a plea deal to serve 41 to 51 months to help Biden prosecutors catch other J6ers. Phil refused. US Supreme Court struck down the use of felony charge against J6ers in the Fischer vs. US case. At his December 6, 2024 sentencing, he was remanded immediately, and was moved across five detention centers over 45 days.
Paula Calloway started her mail project supporting 48 Bundy Ranch incarcerated in 2016. The mailing idea and support ended in 2018 when they were released. One of the those released contacted Paula in July 2021 to restart the project for J6ers. Her main expense is postage using about 3,000 to 5,000 stamps at its peak. Now that she can wind down time and effort, it still costs about $500 per year to maintaining the website.
Suzzanne Monk started her J6 Pardon Project in January 2024 with three goals: publish a political strategy guide; create a searchable J6 defendant database; and build public support. She reminded the listeners that though The Pardon was issued 16 days ago, there are other J6ers still under incarceration.
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Questions and Comments from registered attendees
“Just want to know released J6ers’ needs.” Yelena H.
“Will there be law suits to get compensation for irregularitys of governmental prosecution and violations of defendant’s civil rights?” Stan N.
“Those who entered into the events of January 6 were treated like garbage & they truly deserve their day in court.” Kathy L.
“It is the hall mark of a unjust tyrannical government that unjustly secrets and sequesters its citizens outside of the law, invades homes, proffers inhumane constraints, and uses the resources of government to strip one’s rights away. It is the sovereign duty of each citizen to crumble this government, and make anew its foundations. – Albert Harshaw”
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Appreciate all you do to connect with our Republican base.
Many of you were incarcerated for merely trespassing and did not do anything malicious or violent and were ushered or encouraged to go into the capital building by undercover , perhaps FBI. They encouraged you and set many of you up for arrests. Nancy Peloosi and Chuck Schumer had ordered some of the doors open with a special code to open these doors and all they had to do was give the order to close and lock the doors. Therefore they are culpable and acted in concert as co conspirators and should also be charged as ring leaders to set you up when all they had to do was close and lock the doors.
Many of you were over sentenced and many sentenced and spent time in jail and were not guilty and the government abused their power in forcing you to plea bargain to things you did not do. Are you going to sue for damages, abuse of power and have them prosecuted for illegal use of the justice department?
Was there any consistency and uniformity in the sentencing or was it arbitrary and capricious?
The DOJ over prosecuted many if not most of you and you lost so much. What are your options for restitution and also filing criminal charges against the government since they could have easily just locked the doors . You were set up to make President Trump look bad and so they could file charges against him.
I’m very interested in hearing directly from those incarcerated as to what exactly they did and the consequences . Unfortunately, the media has neglected to report on these people as individuals with different circumstances. They are treated as a “mob” and there appeared to be little interest among journalists in actually finding out how these cases were handled. I’m hoping this meeting will serve to give real answers as to what happened and if real laws were violated or was this just political retribution?
It is the hall mark of a unjust tyrannical government that unjustly secrets and sequesters its citizens outside of the law, invades homes, proffers inhumane constraints, and uses the resources of government to strip one’s rights away. It is the sovereign duty of each citizen to crumble this government, and make anew its foundations. – Albert Harshaw