DOJ expands Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons to include unrelated weapons crimes

Department of Justice attorneys have broadened President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 defendants to include certain crimes that did not occur at the U.S. Capitol, raising questions from at least one judge about the clemency’s shifting scope.

Judge Dabney Friedrich this week asked the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., which is currently being run on an interim basis by Trump-ally Ed Martin, to explain why it had a change of heart for one such defendant.