AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.At least 97 of those who were charged in connection with the Capitol riot have reoffended in the years since the attack, the nonprofit publication Lawfare has found.Listen · 4:14 min President Trump has made clear that he believes the Jan. 6 rioters should not only be praised, but that they should be compensated with taxpayer money.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York TimesBy Luke BroadwaterLuke Broadwater covers the White House. He reported from Washington.June 4, 2026, 1:08 p.m. ETOne was arrested after allegedly threatening a person with a gun in a church parking lot. Another was convicted of felony charges of grand larceny and burglary. Still another was convicted of child molestation.At least 97 of the nearly 1,600 people who were charged in connection with the Capitol riot have been accused of new crimes since Jan. 6, 2021, according to a study released on Thursday from Lawfare, the nonprofit legal issues publication.The figure, which is larger than previously known, includes 19 cases that happened after Mr. Trump granted clemency to Jan. 6 defendants on the first day of his second term, according to the study’s author. The rest of the cases happened in the years after the riot.Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and the editor in chief of Lawfare, said his group researched names by mining court documents and calling county clerks’ offices.“The pardons closed a chapter for these individuals politically. What I found is that for a significant number of them, the behavior that defined Jan. 6 didn’t stop when they left the Capitol,” said Katherine Pompilio, the study’s author. She said the report likely misses some cases of recidivism by the Jan. 6 defendants.A previous study of Jan. 6 recidivism found at least 40 defendants faced other criminal charges, with 12 taking place after Mr. Trump’s clemency order. That study was done by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit legal watchdog group that has been critical of the administration. The Lawfare study found 19 criminal cases that occurred after the clemency.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT