Now that he's back in the White House, President Donald Trump is reportedly turning his attention toward pardoning the violent criminal who ransacked the United States Capitol on his behalf four years ago.
ABC News' Katherine Faulders reports that Trump "is preparing to issue a sweeping series of pardons" for January 6th defendants "including commuting the prison sentences of hundreds of his supporters who have been convicted of violent attacks against law enforcement."
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Additionally, writes Faulders, "Trump is expected to further direct the Attorney General to move to dismiss all pending indictments against Jan. 6 defendants who have not yet had their cases fully adjudicated, which would shutter roughly 470 ongoing cases according to recently released numbers by the D.C. US Attorney’s Office."
Some of Trump's allies, including Vice President J.D. Vance, had suggested that people who committed acts of violence against police should not be pardoned but apparently Trump has decided to free a wide range of January 6th prisoners, not just those who committed nonviolent offenses that day.
