President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office on Monday that he was granting pardons and commutations to about 1,500 defendants charged over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, marking one of the most expansive clemency announcements in history.
Trump’s pardons and commutations for the defendants, a stunning repudiation of the Justice Department’s wide-ranging four-year investigation into the Capitol attack, extended to nonviolent rioters, including those who damaged and stole property, and those who engaged in violence.
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“They’ve been treated very unfair,” Trump said. “The judges have been absolutely brutal. The prosecutors have been brutal,” Trump announced to reporters as part of his day one executive actions.
Trump said the violent defendants, who had stormed
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