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Trump wagers US economy in high-stakes tariff gamble at 100-day mark
President Donald Trump campaigned for a second term on pledges to lower prices, create jobs and impose tough tariffs on imports, especially from China.
Dubbing himself the «Tariff Man» last fall, he told an audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, «To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff.» However, in his first months in office, it is unclear whether Trump can, or should, implement the harsh reciprocal tariffs he announced in April against dozens of countries.
Now, 100 days into his second term, economists told Fox News Digital they see these proposed reciprocal tariffs as politically motivated, unnecessary and failing to secure the benefits from U.S. trading partners that Trump had been hoping for.
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President Donald Trump holds a «Foreign Trade Barriers» document as he delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo)
Instead, they warned, Trump’s tariffs could grind billions of dollars in trade to a halt between the world’s two largest economies, disrupt global supply chains and risk torpedoing the U.S. economy into a major slump or recession.
When Trump took office, chances of recession «were probably about 10%,» Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, told Fox News Digital in an interview. «Now, they’re up to around 55%.»
It is unclear whether Trump will continue to push through with these unpopular tariffs, which are slated to take force in early July. In the near-term, uncertainty and volatility remain.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on March 28, 2025 amid President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Short-term tariff impact
Trump announced tariffs on April 2, dubbed «Liberation Day.» The announcement included both a 10% universal baseline tariff and plans to enact larger tariffs on dozens of other countries, including China.
These new import taxes immediately sent stock markets into free-fall, triggering one of the largest single-day S&P 500 losses since World War II, and prompting deep and unyielding uncertainty over possible next moves.
«The only thing that’s happened that has pushed the odds of a recession up so high, so fast, is chaos coming from out of the White House,» Wolfers said.
Trump subsequently paused the reciprocal tariffs for 90 days to encourage the administration to make «deals» with countries on trade and encourage more investment in U.S. manufacturing. Even so, some prices have already risen in anticipation of higher costs under the new tariff regime.
Uncertainty has also played a role. Trump’s tariff announcement in April prompted a number of large container ships to abruptly halt their shipments to the U.S. earlier this month and turn back to their original ports. This means that more consumers will see a price hike for everyday products, likely at certain big-box retailer stores like Walmart or Target, as early as next month.
These price hikes are «not showing up tomorrow, but will show up over the next few months, as scarcities develop and American retailers have to find other sources – that might take a while,» David H. Feldman, an economist and professor at William & Mary College, said in an interview.
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President Donald Trump arrives for a presentation ceremony in the East Room of the White House on April 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
While Trump says tariffs will target foreign competitors and reduce the trade deficit, the costs will fall mostly on working- and middle-class Americans who buy the bulk of imported goods.
Wolfers said Trump’s focus on the trade «deficit» is based on a common misconception.
«What that means is we sell China a small amount of stuff, and they sell us a large amount of stuff,» he explained. However, for every dollar bill that goes to China, the U.S. gets something for it that Americans want to buy, like T-shirts.
«We have a dollar deficit – but we have a stuff surplus.»
Potential for deescalation
There are few signs that Trump’s tariffs will deliver the gains he sought, such as onshoring U.S. production or securing better trade deals, particularly with Asian countries.
Instead, experts warn these countries are likely to circumvent U.S. markets and supply chains over time.
«If these tariffs stay in place, there will be hardly any trade between the U.S. and China,» by the second half of the year, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a senior non-resident fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said in an interview.
Roughly $650 billion in annual trade between the two countries is at risk, along with knock-down effects on global commerce in the long term.
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President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Trump’s tariffs also discard decades of international understanding that has depoliticized trade disputes, Feldman said.
The U.S. is «moving from a system that at least was based on mutually acceptable rules of behavior to a system that does not have that as its anchor,» Feldman, whose research focuses on global trade policy, told Fox News Digital. That shift allows the government to target foreign nations individually and offer selective tariff relief to firms and industries «if they do ‘our’ bidding,» he argued.
«America is now master of the shakedown.»
President Donald Trump gestures to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 3, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump spoke a day after announcing sweeping new tariffs targeting goods imported into the U.S. on countries including China, Japan and India. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Next steps
After market backlash, Trump appears to be warming to the idea of easing his proposed 145% reciprocal tariffs on China, which has vowed to impose its own retaliatory measures on U.S. goods.
Economists say he is more likely to do so if the economy sours, or he sees a major drop in poll numbers, if the past is precedent.
Still, any path to deescalation remains uncertain. Just last week, China denied Trump’s claim that the two countries were negotiating a tariff deal, after he asserted in an interview that he had reached «200 deals» on trade.
Economists believe Trump will at least partially scale back the tariffs before July but warn he is playing a high-stakes game of brinkmanship that could hit U.S. consumers and businesses hardest.
«What I worry about is that the immediate impact of uncertainty is on business investment in trade-exposed industries, leading to a recession,» Feldman said. «But it could get worse, if it transmits into a financial panic. And if everyone starts to say, ‘geez, I got to get into gold and cash, I can’t be in Treasury bills.’ If we move into a flight to cash, all bets are off.»
Should that happen, he said, «We could slide into 2008 all over again.»
A television broadcasts market news on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Friday, April 4, 2025. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump has refused to concede that his early days have been anything but a major success.
In a recent interview with Time magazine, he touted his first 100 days as «very successful,» saying «people [are] writing that it was the best first month, and best second month, and really the best third month» for a U.S. president.
He dismissed stock market volatility and rising inflation as temporary «market fluctuation,» calling it a «transition period» that would level out.
When asked if he would consider it a win if tariffs remained as high as 50% on imports a year from now, Trump said he would.
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«Total victory,» he said.
«Everybody is going to benefit.»
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The 42nd week of his second administration was another busy one for President Donald Trump.
This week, Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in history, backed using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers, announced plans to order the Justice Department to evaluate ties between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other U.S. figures, and issued pardons to those accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
Here’s a look at what happened.
Government shutdown ends
On Wednesday evening, Trump signed legislation that the House and Senate passed earlier in the week to fund the government again, as consequences of the lapse in funding started to mount, such as missed paychecks for federal workers and airline delays due to air traffic controller staffing shortages.
The bill maintains funding for the government consistent with fiscal year 2025 spending levels through Jan. 30 to provide a window for lawmakers to nail down a longer appropriations measure for FY 2026.
The measure also allocates spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which more than 42 million Americans rely on, through September. The program supports non- or low-income individuals or families to purchase groceries on a debit card.
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President Donald Trump signed legislation that the House and Senate passed earlier in the week to fund the government again. (Mariam Zuhaib/The Associated Press)
Additionally, the measure reverses layoffs the Trump administration set into motion earlier in October, and pays employees for their absence.
Foreign worker visa criticism
Trump also conducted a sit-down interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that aired both Monday and Tuesday, where he said that bringing foreign workers to the U.S. on H-1B visas is important to «bring in talent» to the U.S. After Ingraham claimed that the U.S. has talent at home, Trump disagreed.
«No, you don’t. No, you don’t. You don’t have, you don’t have certain talents, and people have to learn!» Trump said. «You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say I’m gonna put you into a factory where we’re gonna make missiles.»
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H-1B visas permit U.S. companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers for up to six years.
It’s an issue that has remained controversial among MAGA supporters. Those who back the program claim it is critical to U.S. competitiveness, but opponents say that the visa holders are taking away jobs from Americans.
Trump’s statements earned him criticism from those that make up his base. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., rebuked Trump’s statements afterward and said that she is «America First and America Only.»
«I believe in the American people,» Greene said. «I am one of you.I believe you are good, talented, creative, intelligent, hardworking, and want to achieve. I am solidly against you being replaced by foreign labor, like with H1Bs.»
TRUMP SIGNS BILL ENDING LONGEST GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN US HISTORY
President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast with Senate and House Republicans in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/The Assocaited Press )
In response to the criticism, the White House pointed to the Trump administration’s announcement in September that would require a $100,000 annual fee for companies seeking to obtain an H-1B visa. Plus, the White House noted that the Department of Labor launched Project Firewall in September in an attempt to ensure employers don’t abuse the H-1B visa process.
Separately, Trump also defended previous statements supporting allowing up to 600,000 Chinese students to come to the U.S. in his interview with Ingraham, and asserted that they must study in the U.S. so U.S. colleges don’t «go out of business.»
Former Trump U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley said doing so would be a «massive mistake.»
«That would be a huge gift to China and a threat to the United States,» Haley said in a post on X on Thursday.
More Epstein documents
Additionally, Trump announced Friday that he would order the Justice Department and the FBI to probe financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with those including former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration Larry Summers, and others.
The announcement came after both Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released thousands of documents Wednesday related to Epstein — including emails where Trump was mentioned. However, the documents do not allege wrongdoing from Trump and simply show Epstein mentioning him.
«This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,» Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday. «Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’ Stay tuned!!!»
Portrait of American financier Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 22, 1997. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
Clinton has denied that he ever visited Epstein’s island, and wrote in his 2024 memoir «Citizen» that he wished they’d never met. A spokesperson for Summers did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Presidential pardons
Late Sunday, the Trump administration announced the president had issued pardons for more than 70 people accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 election results.
But presidential pardons only apply federal charges and those involved don’t have any federal charges leveled against them – meaning the move is primarily a symbolic gesture.
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Those pardoned include Trump allies like former New York City mayor and the president’s former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who claimed that the 2020 election was «stolen» from Trump. Giuliani is currently caught up in a case in Arizona where he faces state charges for election interference for those statements.
Other prominent figures pardoned include former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.
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El científico de Harvard, Kim Kardashian y el cometa 3I/ATLAS que quizás no sea una nave extraterrestre
Kim Kardashian le hizo una pregunta emocionada al líder de la NASA justo antes de Halloween. “Espera…. ¿cuál es la verdad sobre 3I/Atlas?!?!!!!!!!?????”, escribió en la red social X.
Kardashian preguntaba sobre un cometa llamado 3I/ATLAS que está pasando por nuestro rincón del universo.
Sean Duffy, administrador en funciones de la NASA y exestrella de telerrealidad, respondió con mucho ánimo, como profesor de ciencia de preparatoria .
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Respondió: “¡Gran pregunta!” y explicó que “3I” significa que se trata del tercer objeto conocido procedente de fuera de nuestro sistema solar.
Le aseguró que, sin importar lo que hubiera oído sobre los posibles orígenes del cometa, no había razón para alarmarse.
“No hay extraterrestres”, agregó. “No hay amenaza para la vida en la Tierra”.
El cometa que está de moda
Este cúmulo de roca, polvo y hielo, así como saber si lo envió algún ser inteligente, de repente es un tema de moda en la mente de mucha gente.
Kardashian preguntó al respecto al igual que Joe Rogan en su pódcast. Una oleada de gente consultó Google sobre las defensas planetarias de la NASA. Cuando fue descubierto, 3I/ATLAS viajaba a unos 221.000 kilómetros por hora. (Imagen: NASA)
Andrew Siemion es el investigador principal de Breakthrough Listen, que utiliza grandes radiotelescopios para buscar comunicaciones extraterrestres. Cuenta que hace poco se encontraba en un aeropuerto cuando un extraño que escuchaba su conversación “me tomó del hombro y me dijo: ‘¿Estás hablando del 3I/ATLAS?’”. Le respondió al desconocido que sí.
“La gente está al tanto”, comentó Siemion, “y la gente está muy entusiasmada con el objeto interestelar”.
La notoriedad de este cometa puede atribuirse a Avi Loeb, un astrofísico de Harvard muy reconocido por sus investigaciones sobre agujeros negros, materia oscura y otros temas de la ciencia convencional.Pero en los últimos años también ha especulado mucho sobre los extraterrestres.
Loeb ha aparecido en numerosos programas de noticias desde julio, cuando 3I/ATLAS fue detectado por primera vez por el Sistema de Última Alerta de Impacto Terrestre de Asteroides de la Universidad de Hawái (de ahí el nombre ATLAS). Rogan discutió el tema durante un par de horas, y ha publicado una serie de ensayos en los que se pregunta si el cometa podría ser un caballo de Troya enviado por extraterrestres para espiar la Tierra, o algo peor.
¿3I/ATLAS es una nave espacial?
“¿Lleva 3I/ATLAS un disfraz de cometa”, escribió Loeb hace poco, “o de verdad es una roca helada de origen natural?”.
Señaló que el 19 de diciembre, seis días antes de Navidad, el cometa alcanzará su punto más cercano a la Tierra, a una distancia de casi 273,6 millones de kilómetros. “¿Enviará 3I/ATLAS minisondas hacia la Tierra como regalo de Navidad a la humanidad?”, preguntó.
Según Loeb, las probabilidades de que 3I/ATLAS tenga un origen artificial oscilan entre el 30 y el 40 por ciento. Su argumento se basa en coincidencias al parecer improbables y en características inusuales observadas en el cometa.
Esta interpretación contrasta con la de muchos otros científicos, que afirman no ver indicios de nada antinatural.
“Todo el tema está contaminado por la afirmación de que podría tratarse de una nave espacial”, señaló David Jewitt, astrónomo de la UCLA. “Así que creo que en la mente de la gente sí es una nave espacial”. 3I/ATLAS: el 19 de diciembre es la fecha que esperan los astrónomos para estudiar al cometa. (imagen: GeminiAI)
Además, añadió, cuando los expertos dicen que no lo es, mucha gente piensa que “lo están encubriendo”.
Todo lo que se ha observado tanto con telescopios en tierra como en el espacio “encaja con lo que vemos en otros cometas”, aseguró Jewitt. “Puede explicarse perfectamente, pero, de manera sistemática, Avi ha recogido toda esa información y la ha interpretado de otra manera, lo cual me parece decepcionante”.
Amenazas y teorías conspirativas
Loeb insiste en que está abierto a cambiar de opinión a medida que se realicen más observaciones, pero quiere que los líderes políticos se lo tomen en serio como una amenaza potencial.
“Deberíamos considerar esta posibilidad”, dijo Loeb en una entrevista.
Un gran número de personas comparte la voluntad de Loeb de considerar esa posibilidad, que combina una pregunta filosófica perdurable – “¿Estamos solos en el universo?”- con teorías conspirativas según las cuales los expertos y el gobierno ocultan, o ignoran, la verdad. (Kardashian llamó por primera vez la atención de Duffy cuando dijo en su programa que creía que la NASA había falsificado los alunizajes del Apolo).
Expertos en comunicación científica como Dan Fagin, director del Programa de Periodismo Científico, de Salud y Ambiental de la Universidad de Nueva York, afirman que no es necesariamente malo que los científicos aborden temas que, de manera comprensible, fascinan a mucha gente, como los extraterrestres.
“Es importante despertar la curiosidad científica, incluso en personas como Kim Kardashian”, afirmó Fagin.
A black space background with stars as white streaks and a single fuzzy white dot, comet 3I/ATLAS in an image created from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter October 3, 2025. ESA/TGO/CaSSIS/Handout via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
Pero, añadió, “es igual de importante, y podría decirse que incluso más, hablar de lo probable que es algo, hablar tanto de la probabilidad como de la posibilidad”.
Loeb admite que “del 30 al 40 por ciento” es una impresión, no una conclusión científica a partir de datos estadísticos. “No se basó en un cálculo”, dijo, “porque es imposible hacer un cálculo sobre eso”.
En su mayor parte, 3I/ATLAS parece y se comporta como un cometa, hecho del mismo material que los cometas corrientes del sistema solar: agua, polvo, dióxido de carbono y monóxido de carbono. Las observaciones realizadas con el telescopio espacial Hubble indican que tiene como máximo 5,5 kilómetros de ancho, y Jewitt dijo que podría ser considerablemente más pequeño, tal vez dos tercios de kilómetro de ancho.
Qué llama la atención de 3I/ATLAS
El cometa posee propiedades inusuales. Cuando lo descubrieron, a más de 643.7 millones de kilómetros del Sol, 3I/ATLAS ya estaba rodeado por una nube de polvo y gas. Esto difiere del típico estado oscuro e inerte de la mayoría de los cometas a esa distancia.
Parte de su composición química ha demostrado estar desequilibrada. Tiene mucho más dióxido de carbono que la mayoría de los cometas del sistema solar, así como altos niveles de níquel.
Cuando 3I/ATLAS se aproximó al Sol el mes pasado, su brillo aumentó de manera considerable y su color cambió, con matices azul-verdosos. Su trayectoria tampoco es la que cabría esperar de algo atraído únicamente por la gravedad del Sol.
En cuanto se descubrió 3I/ATLAS, Loeb empezó a especular sobre estas rarezas. An image provided by NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) from the Hubble Space Telescope of the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. (NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH COMET SPECULATION BY KENNETH CHANG FOR NOV. 8, 2025. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
La fuerza no gravitatoria que empuja al cometa y el tono azul verdoso podrían ser el encendido de un motor de cohete, ha sugerido. (Los chorros de gas que salen disparados de la superficie podrían proporcionar un efecto propulsor similar, y el cambio de color, que se ha observado en otros cometas, podría ser simplemente el resplandor de las moléculas que escapan del cometa y que luego son estimuladas por la luz solar).
Loeb también ha destacado cómo 3I/ATLAS viaja casi en el mismo plano que las órbitas de los planetas de nuestro sistema solar. El sistema solar está inclinado en un ángulo de 60 grados con respecto al disco de la Vía Láctea, por lo que el movimiento del cometa en el mismo plano que los planetas podría ser otro indicador de que la trayectoria es intencionada, no aleatoria, dijo.
Sin embargo, otros astrónomos afirman que lo que Loeb ve como un diseño deliberado es más bien casualidad. También dicen que un objeto que se formó alrededor de una estrella diferente y viajó a través de la Vía Láctea debería tener un aspecto diferente.
“Vino de fuera de nuestro sistema solar, por el amor de Dios”, dijo Siemion.
Sea cual sea el origen del cometa, sus inusuales propiedades podrían proporcionar pistas sobre partes distantes de la Vía Láctea que los científicos actuales nunca podrán visitar.
El dióxido de carbono, por ejemplo, podría ser el resultado de miles de millones de años de bombardeo por rayos cósmicos de alta energía que modificaron los enlaces químicos de las moléculas de monóxido de carbono y agua. Una imagen del telescopio espacial Hubble del cometa interestelar 3I/ATLAS, tomada el 21 de julio de 2025, cuando el cometa se encontraba a 445,8 millones de kilómetros de la Tierra (NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Procesamiento de imágenes: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) vía The New York Times)
“Eso nos dice algo muy importante sobre cómo se formó y sobre su trayecto”, afirmó John Noonan, científico planetario de la Universidad de Auburn.
Los detalles sobre los isótopos específicos de carbono, nitrógeno y otros elementos podrían ofrecer pistas sobre el tipo de estrella en torno a la que se formó 3I/ATLAS.
Tras un mes en el que 3I/ATLAS fue inobservable desde la Tierra por estar demasiado cerca del Sol, ha vuelto a la vista mientras acelera hacia su salida del sistema solar.
En las próximas semanas, los telescopios James Webb y Hubble realizarán más observaciones.
Un nuevo telescopio financiado por Estados Unidos en Chile, el Observatorio Vera Rubin, encontrará muchos más objetos interestelares en los próximos años.
Kardashian no ha comentado públicamente si Duffy, el líder de la agencia gubernamental que según ella falsificó los alunizajes, la convenció de que el 3I/ATLAS no es una nave extraterrestre invasora.
Pero Loeb la ha invitado descaradamente a unirse a su equipo de investigación.
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Trump issues fresh pardons for Jan 6 defendants, including woman accused of threatening FBI on social media
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President Donald Trump has granted fresh pardons to two Jan. 6 defendants facing charges on other issues.
Suzanne Kaye, a Jan. 6 defendant, was also sentenced to 18 months in prison for allegedly threatening to shoot FBI agents in social media posts.
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice stated that on Jan. 31, 2021, the day before Kaye was set to meet with FBI agents regarding a tip that she was at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, she posted videos on social media in which she said she would «shoot» FBI agents if they came to her house. The FBI learned of Kaye’s social media posts on Feb. 8, 2021, and arrested Kaye at her Florida home on Feb. 17, 2021.
A White House official told Fox News Digital that Kaye is prone to stress-induced seizures and suffered one while the jury read its verdict in 2023. The official said that the case was one of disfavored political speech, which is protected under the First Amendment.
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President Donald Trump granted a Jan. 6 defendant another pardon to cover unrelated firearm charges. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
U.S. Special Attorney Ed Martin posted about the pardon on Saturday, thanking Trump in a post on X.
«The Biden DOJ targeted Suzanne Kaye for social media posts — and she was sentenced to 18 months in federal lock up. President Trump is unwinding the damage done by Biden’s DOJ weaponization, so the healing can begin,» Martin wrote.
Jan. 6 defendant Daniel Wilson remained incarcerated after Trump pardoned convicted rioters because he pleaded guilty to firearms charges. A White House official told Fox News Digital that the president made the decision to grant Wilson an additional pardon because the firearms were discovered during a search of Wilson’s home related to the Capitol riot.
Despite being included in the sweeping pardon granted to Jan. 6 defendants by Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, Wilson remained incarcerated due to the firearms charge and was set to be released in 2028. Prior to his sentencing on Jan. 6-related charges, for which he received five years in prison, Wilson pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of an unregistered firearm.
While the Trump administration Justice Department initially said that the firearm charge should not count under the Jan. 6 pardon, it later reversed course, citing «further clarity,» without going into details about what caused the shift.
A scene from the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. (Jose Luis Magana, File/AP Photo)
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In his original pardon, Trump declared that pursuant to his authority under Article II, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution, he was commuting the sentences of those «convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.» That pardon included Wilson’s Jan. 6 charges, but not the firearms-related ones.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee involved in Wilson’s case, rejected the expanded definition of what exactly Trump was pardoning, saying it stretched the bounds of the order too far. In her opinion, Friedrich criticized the use of the phrase «related to» from Trump’s original pardon to expand its meaning.
«The surrounding text of the pardon makes clear that ‘related to’ denotes a specific factual relationship between the conduct underlying a given offense and what took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,» Friedrich wrote in her opinion.
An appeals court later supported her objections, saying that Wilson had to remain behind bars during the appeal process.
Rioters try to break through a police barrier, on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Wilson previously identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers and the Gray Ghost Partisan Rangers militia, according to Politico.
«Dan Wilson is a good man. After more than 7 months of unjustified imprisonment, he is relieved to be home with his loved ones,» Wilson’s attorneys, George Pallas and Carol Stewart, told Politico in a statement. «This act of mercy not only restores his freedom but also shines a light on the overreach that has divided this nation.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department and Wilson’s legal team for comment.
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