Ex-‘MAGA Granny’ jailed over Jan 6 riot reveals why she will REFUSE ‘felon’ Donald Trump’s pardon
A 71-year-old former ‘MAGA Granny’ arrested for participating in the January 6 riot has turned on Donald Trump and will refuse a pardon if he offers her one.
Pamela Hemphill, a retired substance abuse counselor, was gifted a trip to the “Stop the Steal” rally and it was revealed that she entered the Capitol that day after voting for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
The Idaho resident was also seen in photos released by the FBI at the Capitol that day.
Hemphill pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol and was sentenced to two months in prison.
Trump has promised sweeping pardons to many of those charged in connection with the attack, saying he would act “very quickly” on Day 1 of his presidency.
However, Hemphill is not interested and has completely attacked the president-elect, writing on social media on Monday: “I will deny a pardon to criminal Trump!”
She claims she is being “bullied by MAGA” and that some have tried to set her parole officer on her to get Hemphill in more trouble.
Hemphill says the bullies thought she would stop speaking out against Trump, but they “just give me more confidence to keep going!”
A 71-year-old former ‘MAGA Granny’ arrested for participating in the January 6 riot has turned on Donald Trump and will refuse if he pardons her
Pamela Hemphill (circled), a retired substance abuse counselor, was gifted a trip to the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally and was found to have entered the Capitol that day after voting for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020
The grandmother admitted in August USA today that she voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and is not moved by Trump’s victory in November.
Hemphill was seen pushing past police several times as the riot began, eventually shouting, “Come in, come on, have fun… This is your house!”
After her conviction in 2022, she apologized for “everything I said and did at the Capitol.”
She ended up serving her 60 days in a California jail cell.
Hemphill has previously resisted Trump’s attempts to curry favor with her, including in 2023, when he gave an example of how she received more jail time than Hunter Biden.
She replied: ‘Donald Trump please don’t use me for anything, I’m not a victim of Jan6, I pleaded guilty because I was guilty!’
Hemphill has since stated that supporting Trump is akin to joining a “cult” and even compared him to “his friend Jeffrey Epstein” in a CNN interview.
“I started seeing the narcissistic behavior. And I said, ‘Wait, wait, this is gaslighting. This is not true,” she said The everyday beast.
Trump has promised sweeping pardons to many of those charged in connection with the attack, saying he would act “very quickly” on Day 1 of his presidency. However, Hemphill is not interested
Hemphill has previously resisted Trump’s attempts to curry favor with her, including in 2023, when he gave an example of how she received more jail time than Hunter Biden
Trump has pledged to use his clemency power on behalf of many of those who tried to overturn the outcome of the election that Trump lost.
Critics have characterized it as a pledge by Trump to undermine the rule of law.
But Trump told Time late last year that not everyone would be entitled to a pardon.
“I’m going to take it on a case-by-case basis, and if they were non-violent, I think they would have been severely punished,” he said. “And the answer is I’m going to, yes, I’m going to see if there are a few that have really gotten out of hand.”
Trump said he would pardon rioters on “Day 1” of his presidency, which begins next Monday, January 20.
“Most likely I’ll do it very soon,” he said recently on NBC’s Meet the Press.
He added that “those people suffered long and hard. And there may be some exceptions to this. I have to look. But you know, if someone was radical, crazy.”
More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the siege that injured more than 100 police officers and sent lawmakers into hiding as they gathered to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
Hemphill was seen pushing past police several times as the riot began, eventually shouting, “Come in, come on, have fun… This is your house!”
Hemphill (circled) has since stated that supporting Trump is akin to joining a ‘cult’
Hundreds of people who were not guilty of destruction or violence were charged only with misdemeanors for illegally entering the Capitol.
Others were charged with crimes including assault for hitting police officers.
Leaders of the extremist groups Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as plots to use violence to stop the peaceful transition of power from Trump, the Republican incumbent, to Biden.
Some Republican lawmakers are urging Trump to pardon all the January 6 rioters.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said those in jail over the attacks — regardless of their crime — should be released.
“Even those who fought the Capitol Police caused damage to the Capitol. I think they have served their time, and I think they should all be pardoned and released from prison,” Greene said.