President-elect Donald Trump’s long-held promise to pardon his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is drawing fresh scrutiny from a government ethics group.
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, issued a terse statement Monday calling out Trump and his repeated signals that he is willing to grant clemency to those who breached the Capitol as Congress worked to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.
“Some things are fights worth having,” CREW wrote in a social media post on X. “Not allowing Donald Trump to pardon January 6th insurrectionists is one of those things. Two-thirds of the country is with us on this.”
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The warning shot comes just weeks before Trump is set to return to the White House. The incoming president has said he will “most likely” pardon at least some Jan. 6 rioters on the first day he takes office, according to media reports.
A HuffPost analysis this week found that the potential presidential Jan. 6 pardons would put hundreds of violent criminals back onto the streets.