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President-elect of the United States, Donald Trumpsaid in an interview on Sunday that on his first day in office he would take steps to forgive those who participated in the attack on the Capitol from January 6, 2021
“I will act very quickly, on day one,” Trump said on the program. Meet the Press with Kristen Welkerfrom NBC News when asked when he plans to pardon his supporters accused of an attack aimed at overturning his 2020 election defeat.
Trump told Welker there could be “some exceptions” to his pardons if individuals acted “with some exceptions.”radicalor “crazy” during an assault that left more than 140 police officers were injured and caused several deaths.
But Trump called the persecution of his supporters corrupt in nature and did not rule out pardon more than 900 accused who have already pleaded guilty, including those accused of using violence during the attack.
“I’m going to watch everything. “We’re going to look at individual cases,” Trump said.
Comments – Trump has spoken in most detail on the issue of pardons since defeating the vice president. Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election—will likely add to already high expectations of massive action once Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20.
“He continues to deliver a public message that is increasingly closer to what the Jan. 6 community is asking for, which is clemency for all those charged in the Jan. 6 events,” said Suzanne Monk, a longtime advocate for those accused of the riots. Reuters.
hope for mercy Widespread divisions between those accused of the events of January 6 and their supporters have intensified over the past week after President Joe Biden He pardoned his son Hunter, breaking his promise not to interfere in his son’s criminal affairs.
Biden said Hunter deserves a pardon because he was a victim. political persecutionan argument Trump is likely to use to justify mass pardons. Some Biden critics said his decision would reduce Trump’s political costs.
Kimberly Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, said she was concerned that a broad amnesty for accused January 6or serves to wrongly encourage incitement of disorder or even violence in the name of the president.
“The idea that he’s going to reward people for breaking the law on his behalf in an attempt to overturn a legitimate election result … is unprecedented,” said Wehle, author of a recent book on the president’s pardon power.
In what has been called the largest criminal investigation in United States history, at least 1,572 defendants have been charged in the Jan. 6 attack, with crimes ranging from trespassing to seditious conspiracy and brutal aggression.
From this amount more than 1251 people were convicted or pleaded guilty, and 645 people were sentenced to prison terms ranging from a few days to 22 years, according to the latest Justice Department data.
John Pierce, a lawyer who represented dozens of people charged in the Jan. 6 attacks, called on Trump to grant full pardons to all those accused of participating in the attacks. disorder.
“I just don’t know how to do it any other way,” he said, noting that it would be difficult to parse which behavior among the dozens of cases already working its way through the court system would merit clemency.
“I think there would have been a lot of dissatisfaction in the Jan. 6 community” if pardons had been granted on a case-by-case basis, he said.
In an interview with NBC, Trump lamented people being held for long periods of time, saying they were being held in a “disgusting, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be opened.” He called them victims of a “very disgusting system.”
Defense attorney Norm Pattis believes the pardon should include his clients, Zachary Rehl and Joseph Biggs, two former militant group leaders. Proud Boys sentenced to 15 and 17 years in prison after a jury found them guilty of conspiracy to commit sedition.
Pattis said Trump, by promoting the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud (a claim for which there is no evidence), encouraged his clients to believe they needed to take drastic action.
“He has to acknowledge the fact that he created a huge sense of anticipation with his claims of a fraudulent election, and people responded to him as the president of the United States,” Pattis said. “I expect him to be very forgiving.”
Pattis said it was unclear how Trump could draw the line against pardoning some defendants because of acts of violence.
Jake Lang, a New York resident charged with Assault police officers and was held in prison pending trial, said he hoped for a general pardon.
“I think on Jan. 20, 2025, we’ll see a Hunter Biden-like situation,” Lang said in a phone interview. “Everyone has been pardoned, a complete acquittal. Get them all out of jail and put an end to this case so we can begin the process of national healing.”
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