Sen. Mark Warner said both sets of pardons — those issued by Trump and those issued by Joe Biden — send an “awful signal.”
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RICHMOND — Eighty-seven Virginians involved in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have received clemency from President Donald Trump. That’s according to a database of Virginia defendants maintained by National Public Radio.
Among those pardoned were about a dozen residents of Western Virginia, four of whom were still incarcerated at the time of Trump’s clemency order.
Thomas T.J. Robertson, a former sergeant with the Rocky Mount Police Department who brandished a large wooden stick at police officers during the riots, was released either late Monday or early Tuesday, according to his attorney, Mark Rollins of Washington D.C.
Robertson was serving a six-year prison sentence, most recently at the federal penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania.
