There could be `exceptions’ to a pardon if individuals had acted `radical’ or `crazy’ during the assault, says Trump
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he would act on his first day in office to pardon rioters involved in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol attack, further building expectations for a broad granting of clemency.
But Trump described the prosecutions of his supporters as inherently corrupt and did not rule out pardoning the more than 900 defendants who had already pleaded guilty, including those accused of acting violently in the attack.The comments – Trump’s most detailed on the issue of pardons since he defeated vice-president Kamala Harris in the November 5th election – will likely add to already high expectations for broad action once Trump is sworn in to office on January 20th.
Biden said Hunter deserved a pardon because he was the victim of political persecution, an argument Trump will likely use to justify mass pardons. Some Biden critics said his decision would lessen the political cost for Trump. Of that total, more than 1,251 have been convicted or pleaded guilty and 645 have been sentenced to prison, with punishments ranging from a few days to 22 years, according to the latest data from the Justice Department.
“I think you would see a lot of unhappy people in the January 6th community” if pardons were granted on a case-by-case basis, he said. Pattis said Trump, in promoting the idea that the 2020 election had been stolen from him through widespread fraud – an assertion for which there is no evidence – prompted his clients to believe that they had to take drastic action.
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