The president’s pardon of two D.C. officers gets treated like an opportunity to make friends.
WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 defendant has been rearrested on a firearm charge just one day after federal prosecutors moved to dismiss his Capitol riot case following President Donald Trump’s clemency order.
WASHINGTON ― Current and former police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from President Donald Trump’s mob on Jan. 6, 2021, were outraged Monday by Trump’s mass pardon of the rioters.
Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,
President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 defendants charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack on Monday.
A few lawmakers spoke out, but most GOP senators gave Trump a pass for pardoning violent offenders who assaulted police officers on Jan. 6, 2021.
Within a few hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed pardons for about 1,500 people involved in the U.S. Capitol riot four years ago on January
The Boise resident was one of five Idahoans whose convictions were pardoned. Two other ongoing cases have been dismissed.
Pamela Hemphill said she was “in a cult” and got out, and called pardons a slap in the face of police officers who were attacked.
President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, says the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. is “sending the wrong signal.”