Inside Trump’s Effort to Free Three Minnesota Child Porn Defendants Who are Ex-Lawmen

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on January 18, 2026

An Editorial Opinion

For reasons that were never disclosed on the 2024 campaign trial, President Donald Trump has established five protected classes of federal criminals. They are:

1. Elite Epstein pedophiles who benefitted from Trump’s July 2025 directive to Attorney General Pam Bondi to close this notorious child sex trafficking case without any further prosecutions (beyond Epstein companion Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 conviction).

2. MAGA loyalists in Congress like former Congressman George Santos, who was convicted of identity theft and wire fraud and had his sentence commuted shortly after he was imprisoned.

3. Soiled Democrats like former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (who was convicted of public corruption), former U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas (who was convicted of bribery and money laundering), and former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (who was indicted on charges of bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud, and solicitation of illegal foreign campaign contributions), all of whom may be useful Trump surrogates in the political arena.

4. Imprisoned federal inmates who have the financial resources and/or political connection to purchase a presidential pardon from Trump much like racketeering kingpin Ross William Ulbricht, former Honduran President and narco-terrorist Juan Orlando Hernández, and twice pardoned fraudster Adriana Camberos.

5. Law enforcement officials like Border Czar Tom Homan, whom the FBI secretly recorded taking a $50,000 cash bribe from undercover agents posing as business executives seeking future government contracts, and former Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was convicted of taking bribes and whom Trump pardoned in October 2025.

This article exposes Trump's expansion of the 5th category of protected criminals to include three Minnesota law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges and are awaiting sentencing.  Trump wants these ex-lawmen freed, too.  They are Jeremy Francis Plonski, Anthony John Crowley, and Timothy Ryan Gregg.

Plonski’s Victim was a Female Toddler Between the Ages of 1 and 2

From April to October 2023, former Minnesota State Trooper Jeremy Francis Plonski produced 23 child porn videos of a female toddler between the ages of 1 and 2.  Plonski repeatedly and personally abused this toddler while he wore his uniform and sidearm.  The videos, which were 2 to 3 minutes in length, were transported across state lines via Plonski’s cellphone.

Plonski agreed to forfeit “a pink sex toy” and a “wearable prosthetic sex toy” that he used to sexually abuse the toddler.

Plonski was an open and proud Trump supporter on his X social media.

Crowley’s Victim was a Prepubescent Girl Under the Age of 12

On August 21, 2022, former DHS Border Patrol Agent Anthony John Crowley distributed child porn videos across state lines.  One of these videos depicted a prepubescent girl under the age of 12 engaged in explicit sexual conduct.

Crowley confessed to acting voluntarily and knowingly, in violation of federal child porn criminal laws.

Gregg Produced, Starred In, and Distributed Child Porn involving an Underaged Teen

From March to October 2025, DHS Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Timothy Ryan Gregg engaged in explicit sexual conduct with a 17-year-old teenage girl. Gregg used the law enforcement data base to confirm that she was underage.  Gregg engaged in sex with this girl nearly about a dozen times and photographed their explicit sexual activities.

Gregg sent the girl numerous text messages containing the explicit sexual photos of their encounters.  The girl’s father discovered the photos and text messages on her cell phone and notified law enforcement authorities.

The Trump Administration is Intent on Freeing these Three Sex Offenders

Attorney General Bondi, acting on private verbal orders from Donald Trump, is working to free these three convicted child sex offenders.  In Trump's view, law enforcement officers who are aligned with his violent crackdown on undocumented migrants and sympathetic protestors are above the law – regardless of their abusive conduct toward toddlers, prepubescent children, and underaged teens.  

Trump has never advocated the strong and aggressive enforcement of laws designed to protect children from child molestation, child rape, and child pornography.

Last Tuesday, Bondi forced the resignation of Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson, the lead federal prosecutor in the District of Minnesota.  Five additional prosecutors in Thompson’s office, including the Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to Timothy Gregg’s child porn case (Harry M. Jacobs), resigned as well. 

This move was the first step on the road toward freedom for these child sex offenders. This was also the first step in the successful effort to free Eric Adams on his bribery charges.

The planned dismissal of the child porn cases will use a pretextual basis that alleges the Department of Justice (DOJ) discovered acts of prosecutorial misconduct after Thompson and the other prosecutors resigned.  DOJ is expected to argue that this misconduct was gross in nature and warrants setting aside the three convictions and closing the cases.

Absent state charges against these men, Crowley and Gregg will be freed and reinstated as DHS agents.

Last week, DOJ placed Minnesota Gov. Tim Watz under federal criminal investigation for allegedly impeding immigration agents in Minnesota. This move provides Donald Trump with considerable leverage to get Plonski cleared of any companion state charges and reinstated as a state trooper or hired as a DHS agent.

Today, the only bright light shining on Pam Bondi’s steps to vacate the child porn convictions of Plonski, Crowley, and Gregg and dismiss all charges against them is the one our news team is shining on these men.