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A ‘Very Slow Drip’ of Pardoned Jan. 6 Prisoners Leave DC Jail
The Epoch Times ^ | 1/21/2025 Updated 1/22/2025 | Nathan Worcester

Posted on 01/22/2025 2:08:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON—One day after President Donald J. Trump pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 participants and commuted others’ sentences, not all those held at the D.C. Central Detention Facility had been released.

“It’s a very slow drip,” Chaplain Joshua Macias told The Epoch Times just after 7 p.m. on Jan. 21.

He was one of the supporters who had gathered to wait across the street from the D.C. jail, which local law enforcement were guarding. They held American flags and listened to music as they waited in the freezing weather.

At one point, a group of women gathered to do the Trump dance.

Proud Boy Tom Vournas was released a few minutes before 7 p.m. A woman, Stephanie Liu, rushed up to greet him. The New York resident said she had regularly interacted with him during his incarceration.

“He’s very spiritual,” she told The Epoch Times. “He told me, ‘I don’t blame anybody. I even don’t blame the person who report[ed] me.’”

Rhodes was held at the D.C. jail and an Alexandria, Virginia facility before being sentenced to 18 years in federal prison in 2023. He told The Epoch Times that the conditions in that facility, FCI Maryland, were far better than the two others.

“I’m very lucky,” he said, adding that guards never abused him.

“Most guards are conservative. More guards are Trump supporters,” he said.

While he condemned violence that occurred on January 6 four years ago, he said the media had treated his organization unfairly.

“I understand that anger” directed at the media, he said.

One man who said he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 but never faced charges, James Justice, told The Epoch Times that the fateful election certification day four years ago felt like a setup against demonstrators who, in many cases, remained peaceful.

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1 posted on 01/22/2025 2:08:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Looks like some bureaucrats at the jail need to be fired. Who is slow walking this?

2 posted on 01/22/2025 2:33:49 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The anti-Trump judges are doing this.

Bannon’s “War Room” spent the entire two-hour morning show talking about this outrage.

These deep-state Washington “judges” should be arrested.

Trump needs to send troops to these prisons to liberate the J6 hostages.


3 posted on 01/22/2025 2:36:31 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s like releasing them from Stalin’s gulag.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 2:48:32 PM PST by Savage Beast (Trump has the magnanimity of Joseph who forgave and enriched his brothers who sold him into slavery.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They are doing this to avoid the satisfying optics of them all being released.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 2:59:52 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

I thought Trump should have sent the NATL guard over there last night.


6 posted on 01/22/2025 3:00:17 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

How exactly are judges even involved? It is a full pardon from the president, the DOJ sent them immediately to the Bureau of Prisons to execute the order.

How does a judge do anything? Has some judge out on his own tried to override the pardons?


7 posted on 01/22/2025 3:01:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yes... he should simply send the US Marshals to execute his release order. They are probably the most trustworthy federal law enforcement of all. And they have very wide ranging authority.

Ultimately, he might need to have Marshals or federalize the National Guard take over that DC Prison.
I don’t see this as any different than Eisenhower sending the 82nd Airborne to Little Rock to enforce federal law from a jurisdiction in open rebellion.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 3:05:53 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is there a website somewhere tracking the status of the J6 hostages? Who is still incarcerated and where?
This needs to get organized so we can attack the problem on a broad front.


9 posted on 01/22/2025 3:07:47 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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“he should simply send the US Marshals to execute his release order. They are probably the most trustworthy federal law enforcement of all.”

I think I heard one of the attorneys outside the prison say that the US Marshals are the ones inside the prison who are in charge of processing the release paperwork. So they might get be part off the problem...? IDK.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 3:11:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: DesertRhino

The US Marshals were over there at 10:00 AM yesterday morning. They are the ones doing the paperwork so if its getting held up they’re doing it. We need to send the guard over there and just take over the whole building and bring these people out. All you need to do is stamp pardoned on the paperwork.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 3:17:21 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MayflowerMadam

You would be correct.


12 posted on 01/22/2025 3:18:10 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Five minutes of paperwork. Unless some of the J6 hostages died in captivity.


13 posted on 01/22/2025 3:36:59 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I want to see convictions of capitol police.


14 posted on 01/22/2025 3:39:30 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: DesertRhino

“Has some judge on his own tried to override the pardons?”
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Basically, yes!

They are slow-walking the pardons, delaying the paperwork, and causing all kinds of problems because they hate President Trump and his supporters.

These “judges” need to be locked up themselves.


15 posted on 01/22/2025 4:01:10 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pardons are absolute AND IMMEDIATE- Arrest anyone preventing release of ALL of them!


16 posted on 01/22/2025 4:24:25 PM PST by Bob434
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

[[Trump needs to send troops to these prisons to liberate the J6 hostages.]]

He absolutely should- Marjorie Taylor Greene and others who fought for jan 6 folks should also show up with police and instruct the prison that either the people get released IMMEDIATELY, or arrests will be made on the spot-


17 posted on 01/22/2025 4:25:54 PM PST by Bob434
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is all just too bizarre and confusing ... is there not a list somewhere of who is who and who is where?


18 posted on 01/22/2025 4:54:15 PM PST by twyn1 (“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes”)
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To: Sam Gamgee
I want to see convictions of capitol police.

I would also like to see lawsuits against mainstream media for all the false accusations against J6 prisoners. Bankrupt the liberal media for their lies.

19 posted on 01/22/2025 5:02:39 PM PST by roadcat ( )
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To: DesertRhino

Yep, we can’t have video of them releasing dozens (if not hundreds) of political prisoners at once.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 5:32:25 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
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