On Friday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” NBC News Senior Justice Reporter Ryan Reilly said that “because of the conspiracy theories”, the pipe bomber case is “the one investigation” surrounding January 6 “that really moved forward during the Trump administration.”

Reilly said that he thinks the suspect’s defense team will argue that the Trump pardon of January 6 defendants applies to him, but he’s not sure if the courts will buy that argument.

He added, “[T]he language of the pardon itself mostly spoke to charges that were looming at that moment. And, since that point, it’s essentially been prosecutorial discretion, them deciding not to charge hundreds of other people they could have charged who were never charged — including people who viciously assaulted law enforcement offic

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