Thursday, January 23, 2025

Man pardoned by Trump for storming the Capitol arrested again after one day

FOCUS online Man pardoned by Trump for storming the Capitol arrested again after one day Hanna Koll • 3 hours • 1 minute reading time 39-year-old Daniel Charles Ball from Homosassa, Florida, was pardoned this week by the new US President Trump, like 1,500 other criminals, for participating in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. On Tuesday, according to "Spectrum News", he was arrested again just one day after his release. One day after being pardoned by Trump, he is arrested again Ball has been in custody in Washington D.C. since May 2023 for throwing an "explosive device" into a tunnel in the Capitol. According to the US Attorney's Office, several officers were injured in the explosion. Ball already has a criminal record for domestic violence Now he has been arrested again for possession of weapons. Ball's arrest warrant for the Middle District of Florida states that he is a "two-time convicted felon with prior convictions for domestic violence by strangulation and resisting law enforcement officers with violence." His previous charges stem from an incident in June 2017 and a police stop in October 2022, according to Spectrum News. Both incidents occurred in the US state of Florida. Trump pardons prominent "shaman" from storming the Capitol Jacob Chansley, known as the "QAnon Shaman," has also been pardoned by US President Donald Trump. Chansley was one of the most prominent figures in the storming of the US Capitol and was sentenced to 41 months in prison after pleading guilty to obstructing an official proceeding. He expressed his joy on social media, writing: "I've been pardoned, baby! Thank you, President Trump! Now I'm going to buy some damn guns!" The decision was sharply criticized by Democrats, who called it an endorsement of political violence.