It’s been quite difficult to keep up with the number of pardoned Jan. 6 rioters who have run into fresh trouble with the law, even after receiving clemency from Donald Trump, in large part because the list keeps growing. NBC News reported on the latest in an ugly series:

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.

David Daniel has reached a plea agreement in connection with a pending charge of sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children in federal court in the Western District of North Carolina.

Daniel was first arrested in 2023 for his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, and he ultimately admitted he assaulted law enforcement personnel during the attack. He was among the many to receive a Trump pardon anyway.

But as the NBC News report added, as part of the probe into Daniel’s role in the pro-Trump riot, investigators also uncovered evidence of child sexual abuse and filed charges, and now Daniel is prepared to plead guilty.

The developments come three weeks after a different Jan. 6 rioter who received a presidential pardon was sentenced to four years in prison on child pornography charges. Earlier in the month, a different Jan. 6 rioter, who was also rescued by Trump, was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children.

Around the same time, another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was charged with threatening a police officer who served at the Capitol. This came roughly a month after the same man was arrested in Minneapolis after destroying an ice sculpture that was outside the state Capitol.

Unfortunately, this is just the start of a larger list of insurrectionists who ran into trouble with the law after receiving clemency from Trump.

In February, for example, a different pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was convicted in Florida of child molestation and exposing himself to children. (The man, Andrew Paul Johnson, attempted to bribe one of his victims by saying the administration would send him money as part of restitution for those who attacked the Capitol.)

One week earlier, another pardoned rioter, Christopher Moynihan, who was arrested after allegedly threatening to assassinate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated harassment as part of a plea agreement.

Last fall, Robert Keith Packer, a pardoned Jan. 6 criminal best known for wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt inside the Capitol, was arrested in a dog bite incident. That came on the heels of another pardoned Jan. 6 criminal being convicted on child pornography charges. Two weeks earlier, another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was convicted of plotting to kill FBI agents.

They have plenty of company. Zachary Jordan Alam, months after receiving a Jan. 6 pardon, was convicted in connection with a home invasion. Andrew Taake, weeks after receiving a Jan. 6 pardon, pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor. Emily Hernandez, weeks after receiving a Jan. 6 pardon, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for driving while drunk and killing a passenger in another car.

A recent report in The New York Times noted a variety of other examples, including a pardoned Jan. 6 criminal who was arrested again in connection with a string of alleged thefts of industrial copper in California, and a Jan. 6 participant who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Indiana after allegedly resisting arrest during a traffic stop, which occurred shortly after he received a presidential pardon.

What’s more, this growing list doesn’t include John Banuelos, a Jan. 6 rioter who was arrested in October on kidnapping and sexual assault charges. Banuelos wasn’t pardoned, but he saw his Jan. 6 criminal case dropped by the Justice Department the day after Trump’s second inauguration.

To be sure, when making a list of the worst things the president has done since returning to power, the competition is fierce, but his decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, including violent felons, is near the top. But the fact that so many of these recipients continue to run into legal trouble makes Trump’s move look even worse.

In light of the astonishing number of insurrectionists who have either been accused of or convicted of crimes after receiving a presidential pardon, the editorial board of The Times recently published a notable opinion piece that argued, “The American public deserves to understand the mayhem that the Jan. 6 pardons have unleashed.”

Given the circumstances, the appeal was hardly unreasonable.

This post updates our related earlier coverage.

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