President Trump has granted a full pardon for a disabled 69-year-old Navy veteran who was prosecuted by the Biden regime for "seditious conspiracy" over January 6th.

Trump had already commuted Thomas Caldwell's sentence, but the pardon wipes the slate fully clean.

Caldwell, of Virginia, never entered the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. He was tried alongside Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and others over an alleged militia plot to forcefully install President Trump in power after the 2020 election.

"Seditious conspiracy" case

The government's "seditious conspiracy" cases against right-wing activists in the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys formed the core of the DOJ's January 6th narrative. The cases resulted in some of the toughest sentences handed down to January 6th defendants, but prosecutors never identified plans to carry out any seditious plot.

Prosecutors in the Oath Keepers case focused on a so-called "quick reaction force" to store weapons that were never used at a hotel in Virginia.

Caldwell was accused of helping to coordinate the effort. Prosecutors also scrutinized his text messages, in which he discussed "civil war" and ferrying "heavy weapons" across the Potomac.

Taking the stand in his defense, Caldwell said his rhetoric before the Capitol riot was just bluster - "creative writing" as he put it.

His lawyers pointed out that Caldwell, who uses a cane to walk and never entered the Capitol, “couldn’t storm his way out of a paper bag.”

Navy veteran vindicated

The case against Caldwell collapsed bit by bit. A jury in liberal Washington, D.C., acquitted Caldwell of seditious conspiracy and other conspiracy counts, but he was found guilty of obstructing Congress and obstructing justice by deleting messages after the riot.

The obstructing Congress count was then tossed after the Supreme Court rebuked the Biden Justice Department for stretching the law in the case Fischer v. United States.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, sentenced Caldwell to time served in January. Prosecutors wanted four years in prison.

Caldwell received a commutation from Trump as part of the president's sweeping day-one clemency for over 1,500 January 6th participants.

Attorney David Fischer said Caldwell is "first among equals for a pardon."

“When a progressive D.C. jury acquits him of most of the charges and an Obama-appointed judge sentences him to basically time served and a fine, I think it’s safe to say the government got it wrong,” Fischer said.