Exclusive: Jan. 6 defendant Colt McAbee on presidential pardon: 'Best day of my life other than my wedding'

Exclusive: Jan. 6 defendant Colt McAbee on presidential pardon: ‘Best day of my life other than my wedding’


When Ronald Colton McAbee walked out the front door of a federal prison in Rochester, Minn., on Monday night, he saw two silhouetted figures walking toward him.

It was dark. The Minnesota winter had an icy grip on the prison grounds.

“Is that them?” asked Chad Orum, executive assistant of the prison. McAbee peered again. “I think so,” he said.

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Then out of the darkness boomed a woman’s voice: “FREEDOM!”

“‘Yeah, that’s them,’” McAbee said.

Sarah McAbee and her mother, Kim, came forward in the bitter minus-18-degree weather to rescue Colt McAbee after he spent 1,252 days in government custody, brought on by a criminal prosecution that was marred by bald-faced lies. After a handshake with Orum, McAbee was off

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