Over the weekend, former President Trump issued pardons to two individuals involved with the investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol riots.

Among those pardoned was Suzanne Ellen Kaye, who had served an 18-month prison term for threatening to shoot FBI agents during the probe into her participation in the Capitol events. Also pardoned was Daniel Edwin Wilson, who had remained incarcerated due to an unlawful firearms possession charge, even as Trump issued widespread pardons for those involved in the January 6 riots.

Pardon Attorney Ed Martin shared photos of the pardons on the social media site X on Saturday. Martin explained that he had actively campaigned for clemency for Wilson and accused the Justice Department under former President Biden of “targeting” Kaye.

Court documents from 2021 reveal that the FBI had been tipped off about Kaye’s potential involvement in the January 6 riots. Agent Arthur Smith subsequently contacted Kaye, who was based in Boca Raton, Florida, for a phone interview, during which she denied being present at the Capitol.

Kaye, known online as “Angry Patriot Hippie,” later posted two videos, one on Facebook and another on Instagram, both titled “F— the FBI.” In these videos, she was seen drinking alcohol from a bottle and declaring that she would “shoot your f—ing a– if you come” to her home. She also uploaded the latter video to her TikTok account.

Kaye was found guilty of threatening to shoot FBI agents in June 2022 and sentenced to 18 months in prison in April 2023. She was released last year.

A White House official told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company, Saturday that Kaye “suffers from stress-induced seizures,” which she experienced while the jury read its verdict.

“This is clearly a case of disfavored First Amendment political speech being prosecuted and an excessive sentence,” the official added.

The Hill has reached out to Andrew Adler, a federal public defender representing Kaye, for comment.

Wilson, meanwhile, was under investigation for his role in the riots when authorities found six guns and roughly 4,800 rounds of ammunition at his Louisville, Ky., home. Due to prior felony convictions, it was illegal for Wilson, who was involved with the far-right Oath Keepers group, to possess firearms. 

He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to impede or injure officers and two counts related to illegal possession of a firearm in May 2024. He was sentenced to five years in prison in August 2024.

The Justice Department argued earlier this year that the president’s mass pardons of Jan. 6 rioters applied to Wilson’s firearms convictions, receiving backlash from a Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing the case.

Wilson, previously scheduled to remain in prison until 2028, has been released, his lawyer, George Pallas, told The Hill on Sunday. Pallas added that Wilson “was a victim of prosecutorial overreach and weaponized government” who “committed no real crime.”

“His prosecution was a disgrace, his conviction a travesty, and his imprisonment an outrage,” Pallas added. “This pardon doesn’t just free him—it exposes the politically driven witch hunt that never should have happened.”