Pardoned January 6 defendant runs for Florida political office
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#72QW1)
Adam Johnson served 75 days in prison before being pardoned by Donald Trump in January 2025
A Florida man who was convicted then pardoned by Donald Trump after he grabbed then House speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern and posed for photographs with it during the US Capitol riot is running for county office.
Adam Johnson filed to run as a Republican for an at-large seat on the Manatee county commission on Tuesday. That was the fifth anniversary of the January 6 riot, when he was photographed smiling and waving as he carried Pelosi's lectern after the pro-Trump mob's attack in 2021.
Continue reading...