A Capitol rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection is asking the court to drop unrelated child pornography charges against him. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, David Daniel argued that the pardon “requires dismissal” of his charges related to possession of child pornography
Braun was arrested last weekend on Long Island on state charges of assaulting an acquaintance and that man’s three-year-old child, The New York Times revealed Tuesday.
Before that, he was arrested multiple other times on state charges, including for allegedly assaulting his wife and his 75-year-old father-in-law, groping a nanny’s breast, menacing health-care workers with an IV pole at a Long Island hospital, and petty larceny,
Braun’s family used connections it had to the family of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was a senior White House aide at the time, to set in motion the clemency.
Braun was fined $20 million in February 2024 by Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in a civil case where the Federal Trade Commission had sued Braun for predatory lending practices.
