As the Justice Department asks a federal court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions against the paramilitary ringleaders of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, yet another pardoned defendant has been implicated in inappropriate conduct with children.
According to NBC News, "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. According to court documents Daniel’s lawyer signed Tuesday, in 2015 and 2016 Daniel enticed a minor under age 12 'to engage in sexually explicit conduct' for the purpose of producing 'a visual depiction' of the conduct."
"The details of Daniel's case emerged in part as investigators probed his involvement in the Capitol attack," said the report. "Prosecutors said he persuaded another minor victim to engage in 'sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing' a visual depiction of the conduct, authorities said. That victim was under 18."
Daniel, whose misconduct first became public last year, is not the first of the pardoned Jan. 6 rioters to face criminal liability of this nature.
Last year, Kyle Colton and Andrew Taake faced similar cases. Another pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, Bryan Betancur, has been repeatedly arrested over accusations of stalking and touching women on the D.C. Metro.
In another disturbing case, Andrew Paul Johnson abused a pair of middle-school boys after receiving his pardon, promising them restitution money from Trump as hush payments; he was ultimately sentenced to life in prison.
