President-elect Donald Trump has previously said that on day one, he plans to pardon those charged tied to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Justin Smith, a Brunswick native, doesn’t care if his name is on the list.
“My charge is a misdemeanor, so a pardon isn’t going to do me really good,” he said.
Smith pleaded guilty to that misdemeanor in 2023 and was sentenced to 3 years probation.
News 5“I was home-schooled growing up, so I never had the opportunity to go down to D.C. on a school trip,” he said. “So I wanted to go down and experience it myself as an adult for the first time.”
Court records state that Smith only spent 10 minutes inside the Capitol walking around that day.
“I didn’t damage anything, I didn’t hurt anybody, I didn’t steal anything, I was just there,” he said. “You can feel the stench in the air, there’s pepper spray everywhere. They’re throwing sound grenades. You can hear loud booms inside the building.”