Jan. 6 rioter allowed to attend Trump inauguration
Left: Jan. 6 defendant Eric Peterson inside the U.S. Capitol (Department of Justice). Right: President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).

Left: Eric Peterson, a defendant from Jan. 6, seen inside the U.S. Capitol (Department of Justice). Right: Donald Trump, the President-elect, pictured arriving to address a House GOP conference meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).

A military vet from Missouri who “knowingly and unlawfully” stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bright pink shirt during the Jan. 6 riot has been given the green light to travel back to Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump‘s inauguration — with the same federal judge who agreed to dismiss the President-elect’s election fraud case granting him permission to go — as others await approval.

Eric Peterson, who pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021, after being hit with misdemeanor charges in August, will now be allowed to skirt his probation and travel to Washington next month to attend Trump’s swearing-in after Barack Obama-appointee U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan approved his request on Dec. 19, according to court records viewed by Law&Crime. Prosecutors did not file an objection.

“Mr. Peterson respectfully requests that he be provided limited permission to travel to the District of Columbia for the purpose of attending President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on Monday January 20, 2025,” Peterson’s lawyer, Michael Bullotta, asked in a Dec. 17 motion. “Mr. Peterson, as the government will agree, was not alleged to have done anything related to assault or vandalism at the January 6, 2021 protests. His offense was entering and remaining in the Capitol for about 8 minutes without proper authorization.”

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