A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.
By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal, militias.
Following his inauguration, Donald Trump offered clemency to all Jan. 6 defendants and commuted the sentence of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
Miamian Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys chair, was pardoned by President Trump after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
President Donald Trump enacted this pardon just hours after his inauguration, making it one of 46 presidential actions Monday.
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Stewart Rhodes, with his signature black eyepatch, waved to a crowd as he strolled out of a federal prison a free man after serving fewer than two years of his 18-year sentence...
This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: President Trump is defending his decision to grant “full, complete and unconditional” presidential pardons to over 1,
One of those defendants caught on camera was Polk County’s Jonathan Pollock, who federal authorities said fought with and used a riot shield against Capitol Police. After evading capture for three years, he was awaiting trial at the time of Trump’s pardon.
President Donald Trump's pardons of those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is raising concern among attorneys, former federal investigators and experts who follow extremism.