President Donald Trump has granted a second pardon to Dan Wilson, a Jan. 6 defendant, this time clearing him of gun-related convictions from 2023.
Eko Hot News reports that Wilson had pleaded guilty in May 2024 to three charges: obstructing or injuring an officer during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and two separate gun charges stemming from a search of his Kentucky home during the federal investigation.
A White House official confirmed the latest pardon, noting that Trump believed the gun charges were indirectly tied to the Jan. 6 probe and therefore warranted clemency.
Wilson was first pardoned in January when Trump issued blanket pardons to roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants shortly after beginning his second term in office.
His attorney, George Pallas, celebrated the development, calling the new pardon “a resounding victory for justice” and praising Trump for what he described as a bold move correcting an “overreach” in the case.
In a related update, Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin revealed on X that Suzanne Kaye, another Jan. 6 defendant who had been imprisoned for threatening FBI agents online, was also pardoned.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors had attempted to argue that Wilson’s gun charges should have been covered under Trump’s initial mass pardon, but U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich questioned the shifting legal stance, declining to extend the pardon at the time.
