Suzanne Ellen Kaye was found guilty of threatening to shoot an FBI agent, and Daniel Edwin Wilson was found guilty of interfering with a police officer, causing injury, and conspiracy to illegally possess a firearm.
Published November 15, 2025
US President Donald Trump has announced two new pardons related to the investigation of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
White House officials announced Saturday that they had granted one pardon to a woman convicted of threatening to shoot an FBI agent who was investigating a tip that she may have been at the U.S. Capitol. President Trump granted a second pardon to a defendant who remains in prison despite a sweeping pardon for the Capitol rioters for another conviction for illegally possessing a firearm.
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These pardons are the latest example of President Trump’s willingness to use his constitutional powers to assist supporters who have been scrutinized as part of a massive investigation launched by former US President Joe Biden’s administration on January 6 that led to the indictment of more than 1,500 defendants.
Within hours of taking the oath of office for a second term in January, Trump overturned the largest indictment in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice with a single stroke of the pen.
He released from prison far-right leaders convicted of orchestrating a violent plot to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Trump’s 2020 defeat, as well as people caught on camera violently attacking police.
Suzanne Ellen Kaye of Florida was released last year after serving an 18-month sentence. After the FBI contacted her in 2021 about information indicating she may have been at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, she posted a video on social media in which she cited her Second Amendment right to bear arms and threatened to shoot agents if they came to her home.
Kaye testified at trial that he did not own a gun and did not intend to threaten the FBI, according to court documents. She told authorities she was not at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and has not been charged with any crimes related to the Capitol riot.
President Trump also pardoned Daniel Edwin Wilson, a Kentucky resident who was being investigated for involvement in the riot after authorities found six guns and about 4,800 rounds of ammunition in his home.
Wilson was scheduled to remain in prison until 2028, but was granted clemency and released Friday night, his lawyer announced Saturday.
“President Trump is pardoning Mr. Wilson on firearms matters because the search of Mr. Wilson’s home was a result of the events of January 6, and Mr. Wilson should not have been there in the first place,” a White House official said Saturday.
Wilson was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 after pleading guilty to conspiring to obstruct and injure a police officer and illegally possessing a firearm in his home.
President Trump has said he is likely to sue the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) next week for up to $5 billion after the company admitted to accidentally editing a video of a speech he gave on January 6, 2021, but insisted his claims had no legal basis.
The controversy centers on the BBC’s editing of President Trump’s remarks on the day his supporters stormed the US Capitol.
