I don’t want to be a part of their trying to rewrite what happened that day,” said Pamela Hemphill, a 71-year-old resident of Boise, Idaho, who received two months in jail for her role in the Jan. 6 attack.
Following the inauguration, Trump has signed a slew of executive orders, including one that affects the future of wind energy in Idaho.
The Boise resident was one of five Idahoans whose convictions were pardoned. Two other ongoing cases have been dismissed.
A Boise woman who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejected Trump's pardon, saying accepting would insult police and help rewrite history of that day.
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order temporarily stopping the Lava Ridge project, among others.
The move is one of many executive actions focused on the federal workforce enacted since Trump took office Monday afternoon. His other actions addressed DEI hiring more broadly, froze hiring in most executive agencies and directed a return to in-person work for many federal employees, among other directives.
Idaho congressional leaders praise the president's action on a widely opposed development that BLM approved recently.
Originally published Jan. 17 on IdahoCapitalsun.com.President-elect Donald Trump appointed an Idaho businessman to serve as a top official in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA.
Terri Seymour said she watched a broadcast of Trump's second inaugural address before quickly leaving to join the "Trump Train" with other supporters. People adorned their vehicle
Idaho National Guard Soldiers helped support security operations at the inauguration of Donald Trump on Monday.
Pamela Hemphill said she was “in a cult” and got out, and called pardons a slap in the face of police officers who were attacked.