Both Matthew Brackley of Waldoboro and Benjamin Bowden of Orrington were not surprised by the president's pardons.
President Donald Trump had commuted the extremist group leader Stewart Rhodes' 18-year prison sentence in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Rhodes was convicted by a federal jury of sedition conspiracy in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, ...