Mike Johnson Opposes Government Paying Restitution To Jan. 6 Rioters
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The government has already ponied up nearly $5 million for the family of slain rioter Ashli Babbitt.
WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday he does not support paying millions of dollars in restitution to rioters who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election and were pardoned for crimes committed during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Doesn’t sound like that’s appropriate to me, but I have to look into it, I don’t know,” Johnson told HuffPost.
Johnson’s stance shows there are limits to Republican support for the rioters, who Trump called “political prisoners” and pardoned en masse on his first day in office. On Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, dozens of those convicted marched on Congress to demand that Trump do even more to help them, including paying out restitution.
In December, Mark McCloskey, a St. Louis, Missouri-based personal injury attorney, submitted claims for compensation on behalf of about 400 former rioters, with damage amounts sought ranging from the hundreds of thousands to the millions of dollars.
“A lot of my guys are at the edge of suicide, and they’re homeless, and their lives can never get back on track,” McCloskey told HuffPost. “They can’t get jobs, because soon as they apply for a job, they get Googled.”
The government has already ponied up nearly $5 million for the family of slain rioter Ashli Babbitt.
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