He said day one he’s pardoning us,” Brandon Fellows, who served three years in prison, said as he harassed pedestrians with his face squished in a window.
Jan. 6 insurrectionists who’ve been convicted over their role in the violent Capitol riot are feeling confident that President-elect Donald Trump will pardon them once he takes office.
The president-elect said during the campaign that he would grant clemency to some of those who took part in the assault by his supporters on the Capitol nearly four years ago.
Moments before a convicted Jan. 6 rioter was sentenced Thursday, he sought a full pardon. He claimed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory vindicated his actions.
It remains unclear if he will follow through on his promise to offer pardons to those convicted. "If I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly ...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to focus on arresting the "most egregious" Jan. 6 rioters — particularly those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers but have not yet been arrested — in the remaining 72 days before ...
"In delivering both an electoral victory and popular vote majority, the American people gave President Trump a mandate to carry out the agenda he campaigned on, which includes ending the January 6 prosecutions and pardoning those who exercised First Amendment rights at the Capitol," Pope wrote.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Jan. 6 rioter convicted of smashing a door window inside the U.S. Capitol right before Ashli Babbitt was shot sentenced to eight years in prison.
President-elect Trump vowed on the campaign trail to pardon rioters accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress certified the 2020 election win of his Democratic opponent.