{"id":16805,"date":"2025-03-16T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16805"},"modified":"2025-03-16T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T16:24:33","slug":"i-pleaded-guilty-because-i-was-guilty-and-accepting-a-pardon-also-would-serve-to-contribute-to-their-gaslighting-and-false-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16805","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8221;I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative.&#8221;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One of the people who served jail time for taking part in the US Capitol riot four years ago has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying: &#8220;We were wrong that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, told the BBC that there should be no pardons for the riot on 6 January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/convicted-us-capitol-rioter-turns-115826022.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/convicted-us-capitol-rioter-turns-115826022.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of the people who served jail time for taking part in the US Capitol riot four years ago has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying: &#8220;We were wrong that day.&#8221;<br \/>\nPamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, told the BBC that there should be no pardons for the riot on 6 January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/convicted-us-capitol-rioter-turns-115826022.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16806,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805\/revisions\/16806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}