Speaker Johnson Stands By Trump's Jan. 6 Pardons
January 22, 2025
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0:23Now PlayingSpeaker Johnson Stands By Trump's Jan. 6 Pardons
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump pardoned almost all of the people convicted for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and ordered charges dropped in any pending cases, fulfilling a controversial campaign promise just hours after he returned to the White House. #trump #jan6 #politics
Trump announced the mass clemency for more than 1,500 people to reporters on Monday evening and the official proclamation was released soon after. The pardons covered convictions that ranged from misdemeanor trespassing to assaulting police with weapons and immediately became a political lightning rod.
At the White House on Tuesday, Trump swatted away questions about freeing individuals who had been convicted of injuring law enforcement officers, saying that the individuals had already served lengthy sentences and that “the American public is tired of it.” Trump also argued that he favored leniency because, he claimed without evidence, “murderers don’t even go to jail in this country.”
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