Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for child sex crimes
Andrew Paul Johnson promised one of his victims money he expected to receive from the Justice Department, authorities said.
A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was sentenced to life in prison for child molestation and related crimes.
Andrew Paul Johnson was arrested in August, nine months after Trump pardoned him and hundreds of other Jan. 6 defendants for crimes ranging from low-level misdemeanors to felony charges like assaulting officer with deadly weapons.
Johnson, 45, was convicted last month of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as transmitting harmful materials by electronic device to a minor.
He has been sentenced to life, according to the Office of State Attorney Bill Gladson of the Fifth Judicial Circuit in Florida.
Johnson told one of the victims that he would see a windfall from the government after his pardon and that he would put the victim in his will to take any leftover money, according to law enforcement.
Trump has discussed the possibility of taxpayer-funded payouts for Jan. 6 defendants. The Justice Department already gave out just under $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot as she jumped through a broken window leading into the House Speaker’s Gallery.
Another Jan. 6 defendant, Bryan Betancur, was arrested this week in connection with an assault and battery that occurred aboard a Metro train. Videos surfaced online that appeared to show him touching women's hair.
Over the weekend, another Jan. 6 defendant was arrested on suspicion of threatening one of the officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Hope it is better. We shoot 3s a lot. Best shot? Are we good enough to 2 for 20 and not change up the O? We seem to abandon what works, and die with it. I am stumped about who is getting minutes.
If you eliminate major costs you foresee while working, then things are simpler, so I agree. We have set up savings and investments every pay. We "practiced" budgeting before retirement while we only received one payday a month. We are comfortably set. More than that, we are happy with what we have; my wife is a blessing because we share priorities. The Shaker motto was good advice that smacks of Transcendentalism: "Simplify, simplify." Control what you can.
This shouldn't be difficult. What is happening is wrong - whether you want to call it corruption or put a different badge on it I don't care. And it should not matter whether both sides do it. It shouldn't matter if both sides do it a lot or a little in plain sight or behind closed doors. See something like this - and regardless of other issues that might be tangential to the issue, just call it out as wrong. Period.
I might think the 2 party system is broken and essentially ensures the status quo one way or the other (I do). I might think many or even most politicians on both sides of the aisle no longer put country foremost as their priority but instead look to self promotion, self wealth or party loyalty/fealty (I do). But it doesn't or shouldn't stop anyone saying this is wrong - and wrong on a pretty monumental scale that sets a precedent.
To immediately deflect the conversation away from the specifics and to focus on the generalization of both parties (all of which is subjective and based on opinion) seems to me to essentially normalize a wrongful action by shifting the focus from the factual wrongdoing to the frequency of a behavior that 'probably' happens often. Even if acknowledging it is all wrong: If they're all doing it why bother talking about this one (significant) example?
If I've oversimplified it - the intent isn't to misrepresent anything. Just that I think the first part of any discussion on this is simple.
I don't disagree with a word you posted here.
To even compare this to "interest fee loans" is ludicrous. In this nation even in our justice system things are measured in degrees. These two events aren't even in the same ball park.
This is an outright and direct theft of taxpayer dollars. While an interest free loan doesn't add tax dollars it also doesn't steal tax dollars.
At that point it certainly becomes, at least to some degree a deflection. But as of late that's been the status quo.
When I was a boy my first glove was a Warren Spahn model.
Hank Aaron was one of my favorite players.
I moved to Atlanta in 1978 and became a huge fan. TBS, Ted Turner, and the Braves as a super station brought fans from all over the country. Braves baseball is a whole culture. My roots are the Indians and now Guardians.
I love baseball and follow both teams. But I watch the Braves play damn near every night.
The Braves don't have near the payroll of the Dodgers, and Mets. They are around 7th to 9th in team salary.
The organization is very well run. They are usually in the hunt.
This year and last year they have had a lot of injuries. I figured they would hang in there till the trade deadline and then put on a run.
No way did I expect them to have their record and lead all of baseball in batting average and ERA.
Drake Baldwin won the ROY last season. He has been unreal. Olson leading in RBI's. Guys who were depth players have been playing big roles.
The real surprise has been pitching. I did not see them doing what they are doing at all. Both starters and the bullpen.
At the same time I really love this young Guardians team. They are building a team that will compete well for years.
888 keeps insisting tax payers don't pay anything for National Parks. Lies are lies even when one doesn't realize one is doing it.
I made an error which I am happy to accept and acknowledge - something most won't do on here. And if anyone was to keep a score of the lies and the misinformation that is spammed on these boards, then one group of posters win by a land slide and it isn't the guys who don't like Trump.
A parish priest was being honored at a dinner on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his arrival in that parish.
A leading local politician, who was a member of the congregation, was chosen to make the presentation and give a little speech at the dinner, but he was delayed in traffic, so the priest decided to say his own few words while they waited.
“You will understand,” he said, “the seal of the confessional can never be broken. However, I got my first impressions of the parish from the first confession I heard here. I can only hint vaguely about this, but when I came here twenty-five years ago, I thought I had been assigned to a terrible place. The very first chap who entered my confessional told me how he had stolen a television set, and when stopped by the police, had almost murdered the officer. Further, he told me he had embezzled money from his place of business and…
Just as the priest finished his talk, the politician arrived full of apologies for being late. He immediately began to make the presentation and give his talk.
“I’ll never forget the first day our parish priest arrived in this parish,” said the politician. “In fact, I had the honor of being the first one to go to him in confession.”
Your timing couldn't have been better after the Mosque shooting in San Diego yesterday. Of course in Trumplandia what people think and feel seems more important than what people do.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office filed charges against an ICE agent in connection with the January shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, in Minneapolis.
Christian J. Castro, 52, is facing four counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis
The backstory:
The ICE-involved shooting took place near the 600 block of 24th Avenue North just before 7 p.m. on Jan. 14.
Initial reporting detailed federal agents were pursuing a man in a vehicle who had crashed into a snowbank. The man then ran to a nearby home, where a pursuing agent caught up with him and attempted to make an arrest.
An "altercation" between the agent and suspect then ensued, which led to two other people arriving from a nearby apartment, and all three attacking the officer – one armed with a broomstick, according to DHS.
"Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life," DHS initially claimed.
Julio Sosa-Celis, 24, a Venezuelan national, was taken to the hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, while Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, 26, was also arrested in its aftermath.
Both men were charged with assaulting a federal agent in the aftermath of the altercation, but the DOJ later requested the charges be dismissed with prejudice, writing in a motion that, "newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the complaint affidavit."
Big picture view:
The shooting occurred one week after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers and ten days before the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal officers. ICE agents under federal investigation
Dig deeper:
The U.S. Attorney’s Office later opened a criminal investigation into two ICE officers after video evidence allegedly showed the agents’ sworn testimony included "untruthful statements."
Court filings filed after the shooting showed the ICE officers’ accounts of the moments leading up to the shooting differed significantly from testimony provided by the two defendants and multiple eyewitnesses.
SoS is based on the previous year's results (which itself takes into account it's own SoS), but each team has turned over as much as 25-35% of its roster and 30% of all teams have new head coaches, staffs, and systems.
So, it sounds good, but there really isn't much you can reliably take away from it. It's predicting this year's corn crop based on last year's tomatoes.
According to most on draft day, this guy was massively overdrafted, and supposedly not on any team's radar.
I think this just reinforces that most draftniks & sites just really don't know and that reality is disguised by the ability to pick a lot of low-hanging "no-brainer" fruit in drafts. That said, the same applies to all front offices as well, given how many misses there are each year.
They're making a guess on future performance in one system against higher quality talent based on past performances in other systems against decidedly lower talent.... sometimes you'll hit, sometimes you won't.
Trump Says Iran Ceasefire ‘On Life Support’ After Bragging He Has ‘The Best Plan Ever’
President Donald Trump said Monday that the ceasefire with Iran is not in a great place at the moment because he believes Iran’s proposals to end the war have been “unacceptable.”
“It’s unbelievably weak,” Trump said of the ceasefire. “It’s on life support.”
"Life support is not a good thing," he continued. "I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says, 'Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.’”
Speaking before reporters and allies gathered in the Oval Office moments earlier, he boasted about his "plan" to end the war.
“You know, a lot of people said, ‘Well, does he have a plan?' Yeah, of course I do have a plan. I have the best plan ever," Trump said. “I have a plan. It’s a very simple plan.”
Trump then laid out his plan, which is no plan at all: “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
Maybe you can tell me what crimes they have been convicted of and how many felony counts they were found guilty of? I can show you 34 felony counts trump was convicted on. Let me guess. The fact trump was convicted on 34 felony counts is the fault of the democrats, right? Tell me how it was those evil dems who convicted him and not a jury. Or how it wasn't a jury who found he was libel for sexually assaulting a woman? Let me guess, you have a list of excuses for that one too? Tell me how every election trump or republicans win isn't rigged but every time a democrat wins an election you people claim it was rigged?
Or maybe you can explain this one though I know you will ignore it and just post more BS.... After Trump ordered the bombing on Iran's nuclear facilities in June of 2025 he proclaimed that they, "obliterated Iran's nuclear program setting it back several years if not decades." Then just eight months later he claimed that Iran was less than a month away from having a nuclear weapon. So which of those two times was he lying?
And let's not forget this one. On April 18th, 2026, President Trump claimed Iran "agreed to everything" in negotiations, including removing enriched uranium, ceasing proxy support, and keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.
Once again you prove that every accusation you make is just a confession. Do you call the fact I pointed out that trump has been convicted on 34 felony counts "hate"? Do you call me pointing out that trump made two opposite claims about Iran's nuclear program one of which has to be a lie hate? Because that's usually what you call it when we presented with the facts.
You have TDS. Trump devotion syndrome. No matter what he does, no matter what he says, no matter how many times he lies to you, you remain devoted to him.
I do know some of the very things and false statements they were making made it to the right wing media and were heavily repeated on social media. And it wouldn't surprise me if some of them didn't make their way the board by those that seem to think randos on X is legitimate news. But honestly I think most of that is nothing more than trolling the board. Surely such posters aren't stupid enough to believe that BS.
History dictates those percentages, not me. I just posted the numbers. I would recommend that if you try gambling based on your "feelings" or claim that proven statistics make no difference when you wager, you may not wish to gamble. But hey, it's your money.
Do you really believe that when Tom Brady and Brock Purdy were drafted that the teams who drafted them thought the odds of them becoming the players they became were high? If so, why did they wait so long while leaving them on the board to draft them? They took long shot fliers on them.
I on the other hand actually believe there is a role for Green right away. Not a starter right away if ever, but certainly a way to be a major contributor to the offense. Even me saying that is ignoring the odds but it's far more realistic than him ever being the Browns starter unless it's forced due to injuries.
Come on man. Can it happen? Yes it can. But claiming decades of data doesn't matter is not a thing. Well I guess it is to some who wish to ignore it.
