North Carolina MAGA insurrectionist David Daniel’s lawyer William Terpening tells the Wall Street Journal that, due to the wording of convicted felon President Trump’s pardon covering “offenses related to events that occurred at or near” the January 6th attack on the Capitol, his client was also pardoned for possession of child pornography because “pretty much all” of the evidence against him for that crime came from a raid on Daniel’s home on a warrant for his arrest over the riot.

“Anything that flowed from that case, given the pardon, should be excluded and inadmissible at trial,” said Terpening, who is not the only MAGA scumbag’s defense counsel putting forward this batshit argument. Floridian Daniel Ball, a convicted felon who did time for domestic battery by strangulation before the riot, was caught in possession of a gun and ammo when the feds effected his arrest. “I don’t see how they could in good faith say this case is not covered by the presidential proclamation, because it only came about because of the Jan 6 case,” said Ball’s attorney Amy Collins. Tennesseean Edward Kelley was found guilty in November of plotting to assassinate the FBI agents who investigated him after the riot and faces life in prison at sentencing in May, his lawyer is trying to get that conviction tossed on the same grounds. “In this instance, there can be no dispute that Kelley’s case in this court is related to the events of January 6th and is covered by the President’s executive action,” attorney Mark Brown wrote in a January 27 motion for dismissal.

The Journal’s article is a broader look at the post-pardon situations of the January 6th shitbags, with plenty of details on the threats they still may pose to judges, prosecutors, law enforcement agents, and even corrections officers. Also mentioned are now-dead rioter Matthew Huttle, killed by cops during a traffic stop in Indiana last month, and Andrew Taake, who was arrested on a 2016 Harris County, Texas warrant for online solicitation of a minor after two weeks on the lam.

“The Harris County District Attorney’s Office said it had asked federal prison officials to hold the 36 year-old Taake, but instead he was let out of a Colorado facility on Jan 20 after Trump’s pardon,” the Journal wrote, confirming National Zero’s strong suspicion that the Trump Regime had negligently or maybe even willfully ignored that Taake had been wanted for a child sex crime.