Pardoned by Trump, Georgia’s Phillip Crawford reflects on Jan. 6, house arrest, and the toll on his family and business.
WACO, Ga. — A north Georgia defendant in the January 6 case said he and his family are greatly relieved by a pardon from newly inaugurated President Donald Trump.
Phillip “Bunky” Crawford was one of the hundreds arrested, more than three dozen of whom are from Georgia.
“Five and a half months on house arrest. And I wasn’t even indicted yet,” Crawford mused during a Tuesday visit to his rural Haralson County home.
Crawford said it has been an unsettling two and a half years.
“They come to my house,” he said. “Took my guns.”
Monday, Crawford was a convicted felon – one of hundreds prosecuted by the Justice Department for breaching the US capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Wearing a “stop the steal” hoodie, images gathered by prosecutors showed …