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Capitol Hill Rioters Pleading with Trump For Pardons

Phaylen Fairchild
6 min readJan 17, 2021

Over 100 people have been arrested for storming the Capitol Building on January 6th in a riot that killed 5 people. Now they want a pardon.

The rioters who have been captured and await trial for breaking into the Capitol Building, smashing windows, destroying property, stealing items from offices of lawmakers and chanting in unison their intention to “Hang Mike Pence” the Vice President of the United States, have been petitioning the outgoing President for relief as they face a myriad of Federal felonies and years in prison.

Many of the domestic terrorists who descended on Washington D.C. for Trump’s “Save America” rally, which allegedly used an organization called “Women for America First” as a front for what would become a terrorist insurrection that was actually organized by conspiracy theorist Ali Alexander in coordination with three sitting Republican Congressmen, Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, and Paul Gosar, claim they attended and attacked under the impression that they were carrying out Donald Trump’s wishes.

During and after the historic tragedy, rioters streamed themselves live on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, posted photos and videos of themselves and fellow rioters as they beat down doors, broke in windows and terrorized security making many easy to identify, especially because no one was wearing…

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Phaylen Fairchild
Phaylen Fairchild

Written by Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com

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