Pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionist Theodore Middendorf has been sentenced to 19 years for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old

[red dog 1]

Link to tweet

[erronis]

1. I'd guess many of us would argue for a more permanent punishment.

Chemical or scalpel. And don't worry about post-op sutures.

[state of stupid]

5. My dad was real old school on what to do with rapists and child molesters.

Find a dilapidated woodshed, soak it with gasoline, drop the perps' drawers and, set
him on top, nail his manhood to the roof, give him a rusty razor blade or a very dull
knife, set it on fire and walk away. I sometimes wondered but never ask if they would
ever think roasting hot dogs or marshmallows in the fire.

[popsdenver]

11. I gotta tell you folks

if some perv touched any child of mine, the Police/Courts would be the least thing for him to be worried about.......

[Aviation Pro]

2. It's a sad fact

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But he'll receive his real justice in prison.

[maxsolomon]

7. Extrajudicial punishment never goes out of style on DU.

It's not part of his sentence.

[GenThePerservering]

20. Nonetheless, if he's put in gen pop it will probably happen

child molesters are the lowest of the low.

And sorry, I don't really care.

[maxsolomon]

24. I suppose there's a difference between indifference to extrajudicial punishment

and actively wishing for it.

[Grim Chieftain]

3. Maybe he will endure the same in prison that he inflicted on that poor child

[maxsolomon]

6. Extrajudicial punishment never goes out of style on DU.

Reccs noted, too.

[ffr]

4. Flip the story and ask yourself which Democrat president could have survived pardoning, now, a sexual predator?

Republicans and minorities are gleefully supporting Trump, because he's been right on the issues they support?

ISSUES THEY SUPPORT?

The support a leader that openly releases criminals, who takes bribes, who has corrupted our institutions and ruined our standing worldwide?

Can his just immoral supporters ever be reached? With the basement already subterranean, I don't see how!

[calimary]

8. The Donald attracts "only the best people".

[tavernier]

9. I often cringe when I watch a movie about the old days

when people went to the town square to see a hanging. I’ve always thought that I could never watch something like that. This might be the one time where I would make an exception.

[popsdenver]

13. With many individuals

starting with our leader, they could raffle off tickets for who got to pull the trap door lever, and the tickets, sold at 1 buck each, would certainly eliminate our national debt......they could also make even more, by making the final act a pay-per-view.....

[iluvtennis]

10. Good for the fkn child rapist. House him under the jail.

[Joinfortmill]

12. He won't last long.

[Grokenstein]

14. Go figure: The PDF-in-Chief's worshippers are also PDFs.

[kimbutgar]

15. Will the 🍊🐖💩 give him another pardon?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

16. My thought also

[Scrivener7]

17. WTF? Is every one of them a pedophile?

[Ray Bruns]

21. Probably. It's why they follow Trump like they are in a cult.

[Maraya1969]

18. How many has that been? I'd love to calculate the percentage just to make a point.

EDIT: I just checked and it only about 1% at this point but for the victims it is 1% too much since they would not have been attacked had Trump not put their attackers back out on the streets

I think they should sue the bastard though for allow their predators to be free to attack them.

[Wednesdays]

19. Well, even one percent is pretty scary.

Imagine if 1% of the U.S. population were pedophiles. That would mean 3.4 million pedophiles walk among us.

[AverageOldGuy]

23. My favorite J6er . . .

. . . is the one who, about two days after Trump pardoned him, he was back home where he was stopped by a local sherrif's deputy for a traffic violation. The fool pulled a pistol on the deputy, refused to put it down, so, the deputies put him down.

Oh, but wait, I have another favorite J6er.

Not far from where I lived was a Virginiia Regional Jail. Because we were 2.5 - 3 hours from DC, federal inmates were housed there awaiting trial. Some of our local MAGAts got all cranked up because these poor souls were being mistreated in the jail. (They were not.) My favorite was the J6er who claimed he was gluten intolerant so the jail had to prepare special diet for him -- wash his dishes separate from all others, etc. Oh, but wait -- one of the jail guards got pissed off at the clown and released a list of the stuff the guy was buying from the jail commissary: honey buns, ramen noodles, and other sweets -- not exactly gluten-free.

Last month in Florida a pardoned J6er was sentened to life for child rape. One of his victims claimed the guy told them to not tell anyone because he was going to get a lot of money from Trump and would share it with them.

As best I can tell, 40 - 50 of those pardoned are back in jail or facing local or state charges.

[Maraya1969]

25. I took the number 45 and 1,500 pardoned so that is 3% that have been arrested for either sex crimes

or other crimes. 3% is fairly high I'd say. And we are only 1.5 years out. Give it another few years and see how they fair.

These people are law breakers to begin with and then they are kind of idiots also so I expect we are going to see a lot more fall.

[Blumancru]

22. There are two things you don't want to be in prison

A snitch or a chomo. Everyplace has some standards, even prisons.
As a high profile chomo, he won’t last long.
If the facility cares about keeping him alive, they will have to isolate him.
If they don’t, it won’t be pretty but it will be quick.

[Maraya1969]

26. I also think this girl's parents should sue Trump for letting this monster back out on the streets

Had he not been pardoned she would not have been assaulted.

[PJMcK]

27. Trump couldn't be bothered to have the pardon attorneys review the pardons

He said, "Fuck it. Release them all."

Laziest president, nay person, in history!

His "beautiful people" are criminals and true scum. No wonder Trump embraces them.

[Goonch]

28. ;-{) SHORT EYES

[tulipsandroses]

29. Where are the ads? The same way RWers made ads about immigrants that committed crimes, trying to demonize all immigrants

there should be ads about these criminals.

And when will he be asked about this by the media?

[Quiet Em]

30. and the con and Blanche want to pay these sickos

At least 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump for their roles in the January 6 Capitol attack have been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of crimes separate from Jan. 6 since their participation in the Jan. 6 riot.

The alleged crimes by Jan. 6 defendants since Jan. 6, 2021, run the gamut from relatively low-grade offenses like property damage, possession of drug paraphernalia, and trespassing to serious felonies like grand larceny, stalking, planning to assassinate law enforcement officials and prominent politicians, and defrauding government agencies. One Jan. 6 pardonee was convicted in February 2026 of child molestation and sentenced to life in prison. Another was convicted in 2025 of reckless homicide.

At least 14, meanwhile, have been charged with sex crimes or crimes related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and at least six have faced domestic violence charges. Others have faced charges for physical assaults, illegal firearms possession, or other violent crimes. At least 20 have been charged with driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or drugs or public intoxication.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-jan-6-pardons--how-many-clemency-recipients-have-faced-other-charges