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A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, is among several Jan. 6 defendants who have been charged with new crimes since Trump’s sweeping act of clemency for Capitol rioters. On his first day back in the White House last year, Trump pardoned, commuted prison sentences or ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the attack.

Johnson was convicted last month of two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child and one count of electronically transmitting material harmful to a minor, according to prosecutors in Hernando County, Florida. County Circuit Judge Judge Stephen Toner handed down Johnson’s life sentence.

Sheriff’s deputies began investigating the child molestation allegations against Johnson in July 2025. One of his victims told investigators that the abuse started around April 2024, several months before Johnson was sentenced for his Capitol riot conviction.

Johnson told one of his victims that he expected to be compensated for being a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant and would be putting the child in his will to inherit any leftover money, according a sheriff’s office report.

“This tactic was believed to be used to keep (the child) from exposing what Andrew had done,” the report said.

Investigators found sexually explicit messages that Johnson exchanged with one of his victims on the Discord messaging app, according to Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Bill Gladson’s office.

“In the messages, Johnson attempted to have the victim download another application for a more private conversation and encouraged the victim to delete their messages afterwards,” Gladson’s office said in a news release.

Chief U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg in Washington sentenced Johnson in August 2024 to one year behind bars after he pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor charges stemming from the riot. Johnson had asked to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming that he was pressured into it, but the judge rejected his request before sentencing.

Johnson, of Seffner, Florida, was carrying a bullhorn as he marched to the Capitol after attending Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House. He entered the building through an office window that other rioters had smashed, according to federal prosecutors. Johnson cursed and yelled at police officers after they used tear gas to disperse the mob of Trump supporters, prosecutors said.

Ironfaceman:
I am not surprised at all. You see most of Trump's supporters are the myopic, the reprobates, the perverts, the false prophets, the liars and the drug users.

Come to think of it if black Americans had invaded and destroyed Capitol Hill will Trump pardon them.

Ironfaceman:
I am not surprised at all. You see most of Trump's supporters are the myopic, the reprobates, the perverts, the false prophets, the liars and the drug users.

Come to think of it if black Americans had invaded and destroyed Capitol Hill will Trump pardon them.

victorazyvictor:
Rubbish talk from an asinine

Mynd44:
Not necessarily, you can't say every of the people in the riot were criminals or perverts. This one person among them is just the exception and he can't be used to describe everyone of them.

He is a criminal and he has had his.

PS: I think granting them amnesty was a stupid idea

Ironfaceman:
I am not surprised at all. You see most of Trump's supporters are the myopic, the reprobates, the perverts, the false prophets, the liars and the drug users.

Come to think of it if black Americans had invaded and destroyed Capitol Hill will Trump pardon them.

lost24:
Large hate for islam and black is global.

The world is full of hyprocrite .....

lost24:
Large hate for islam and black is global.

The world is full of hyprocrite .....

chidi2003:
Islam hates blacks, also! The Arabs started the evil slave trade hundreds of years against the blacks - before the Europeans.
Therefore, Arabs and the Europeans are guilty of hate crimes against the black community!

Ironfaceman:
Capitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children in Florida



https://apnews.com/article/capito-riot-trump-pardon-child-molestation-f2690d4574a30afdec82edac04c2f4b9

Trump pardoned, commuted prison sentences or ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the attack.