said Wednesday he does not support paying millions of dollars in restitution to rioters who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election and were pardoned for crimes committed during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. “Doesn’t sound like that’s appropriate to me, but I have to look into it, I don’t know,” Johnson told HuffPost. AdvertisementJohnson’s stance shows there are limits to Republican support for the rioters, who Trump called “political prisoners” and pardoned en masse on his first day in office. “A lot of my guys are at the edge of suicide, and they’re homeless, and their lives can never get back on track,” McCloskey told HuffPost. During the march on Tuesday, the former rioters thanked Trump for their pardons, with several saying the government owed them more.

Source: Huffington Post January 08, 2026 20:38 UTC