Zachary Alam spent four years in jail for his role in the Capitol attack before Trump pardoned him in 2025<\/p>\n
A convicted participant in the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack<\/a> who was pardoned at the start of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second presidency has been ordered to serve seven years in prison after a jury found him guilty of committing a burglary in Virginia<\/a> in May 2025.<\/p>\n Zachary Alam<\/a>, 34, had previously drawn one of the stiffest prison sentences \u2013 eight years \u2013 for his hand in the violence carried out at the US Capitol<\/a> in Washington DC by supporters of Trump after his first presidency ended in defeat to Joe Biden after the 2020 White House election.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zachary Alam spent four years in jail for his role in the Capitol attack before Trump pardoned him in 2025 A convicted participant in the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack who was pardoned at the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency has been ordered to serve seven years in prison after a jury found … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}