Overview
- Wilson received a full, specific pardon Friday covering firearms convictions tied to a 2022 search of his Kentucky home during the Jan. 6 probe, and he was released that evening, his lawyer said.
- He had been pardoned in January for his Capitol case yet remained incarcerated on the gun counts, with a projected release in 2028.
- U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump appointee, rejected applying the inauguration-day pardon to the weapons offenses and called the earlier government stance "extraordinary."
- A White House official said the guns were discovered only because investigators searched his home for Jan. 6, so the president pardoned the "firearm issues."
- The weekend clemency actions also included Suzanne Kaye, convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents, as allies including pardon attorney Ed Martin pressed for targeted relief.