Pardoned J6er Arrested for Threatening Jeffries

Court documents say that the text messages placed “the recipient in reasonable fear of the imminent murder and assassination of Hakeem Jeffries by the defendant.”

Moynihan is one of roughly 1,500 people arrested in 2021 after they were accused of entering the Capitol premises illegally and staging a riot.

After winning reelection to the White House, Trump issued mass pardons or acts of clemency to most of those defendants, including Moynihan, expressing concern about the FBI’s involvement in the incident, while arguing that many were charged unfairly and had endured excruciating conditions in prison.

His words come as Moynihan is not the first pardoned Jan. 6 defendant to be arrested on new, separate charges.

At least 10 other Jan. 6 defendants have been re-arrested, charged, or sentenced for other crimes since being released, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics.

Daniel Bell, a Florida man arrested on pending federal gun charges, is one of them.

Bell was detained in late January on an arrest warrant for illegal firearm possession — a charge that predates his involvement in Jan. 6, but emerged due to his activity at the Capitol.