Utterly Deplorable, but it's what you'd expect from our POS felon president
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President Donald Trump is poised to pardon all nonviolent Jan. 6 defendants and commute the sentences of most or all of those convicted of the most serious charges, according to people briefed on the plans. The plans could change before the pardons are announced.
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Declining a case-by-case review sought by some top advisers, Trump would grant some form of clemency to virtually everyone prosecuted by the Justice Department, from the plotters imprisoned for seditious conspiracy and felons convicted of assaulting police officers to those who merely trespassed on the restricted grounds on Jan. 6, 2021.
The department would also dismiss about 300 cases that have not yet gone to trial, including people charged with violent assaults, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss pending plans.
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Trump had repeatedly promised the pardons before and after voters returned him to office in November, as early as “the first nine minutes” of taking office, he told Time magazine.
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Overall, more than 1,580 defendants have been charged and more than 1,270 convicted in the Capitol riot investigation, on charges ranging from misdemeanor parading to seditious conspiracy. More than 700 of 1,100 people sentenced so far have received no prison time or have completed their sentence, and would receive limited immediate impact from a Trump pardon. But about 400 others remain incarcerated, serving sentences after admitting they committed the crimes they were charged with or being found guilty by a jury or judge. A small number of others are being held on court orders pending trial or sentencing.
Such a blanket action for Jan. 6 defendants would be an extraordinary statement about one of the most divisive chapters of recent U.S. history. In recent days, Vice President JD Vance, attorney general-nominee Pam Bondi and lawmakers including Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), have strongly condemned rioters who attacked police.
Even in late November, Trump told Time magazine he would not use a blanket approach: “I’m going to do case-by-case, and if they were nonviolent, I think they’ve been greatly punished.”
But core parts of his base have made clear they want everyone accused in the riot to be cleared, with Joey Mannarino, a podcast host with a large social media following, calling for the defendants to be honored as well.
“Not only should the J6ers be pardoned in a mass blanket pardon, they should be given Presidential Medals of Freedom for standing up when the country needed fighters the most,” Mannarino wrote on X this month. “Yes, the violent ones too.”
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President Donald Trump is poised to pardon all nonviolent Jan. 6 defendants and commute the sentences of most or all of those convicted of the most serious charges, according to people briefed on the plans. The plans could change before the pardons are announced.
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The department would also dismiss about 300 cases that have not yet gone to trial, including people charged with violent assaults, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss pending plans.
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Trump had repeatedly promised the pardons before and after voters returned him to office in November, as early as “the first nine minutes” of taking office, he told Time magazine.
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Overall, more than 1,580 defendants have been charged and more than 1,270 convicted in the Capitol riot investigation, on charges ranging from misdemeanor parading to seditious conspiracy. More than 700 of 1,100 people sentenced so far have received no prison time or have completed their sentence, and would receive limited immediate impact from a Trump pardon. But about 400 others remain incarcerated, serving sentences after admitting they committed the crimes they were charged with or being found guilty by a jury or judge. A small number of others are being held on court orders pending trial or sentencing.
Such a blanket action for Jan. 6 defendants would be an extraordinary statement about one of the most divisive chapters of recent U.S. history. In recent days, Vice President JD Vance, attorney general-nominee Pam Bondi and lawmakers including Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), have strongly condemned rioters who attacked police.
Even in late November, Trump told Time magazine he would not use a blanket approach: “I’m going to do case-by-case, and if they were nonviolent, I think they’ve been greatly punished.”
But core parts of his base have made clear they want everyone accused in the riot to be cleared, with Joey Mannarino, a podcast host with a large social media following, calling for the defendants to be honored as well.
“Not only should the J6ers be pardoned in a mass blanket pardon, they should be given Presidential Medals of Freedom for standing up when the country needed fighters the most,” Mannarino wrote on X this month. “Yes, the violent ones too.”
