They’re Doing It: Jan 6 Pardons Drafted and Ready to Go
After being inaugurated as America’s 47th president, Donald Trump plans to grant pardons to individuals he believes were unjustly persecuted following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. As reported by CNN, Trump has already prepared the pardons and emphasized they would be a priority during his presidency. At a rally in washington, D.C., he hinted that the public would be pleased with his decisions regarding the individuals referred to as “J6 hostages.” Even though specific details about the number of pardons have not been disclosed, Trump mentioned he would issue “major pardons” and expressed a desire to focus on those who did not engage in violence during the Capitol incident.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan have voiced support for Trump’s intentions, highlighting the need to restore faith in the justice system, which they claim has been weaponized in recent years. approximately 1,270 individuals were convicted for their roles in the January 6 events, and Trump has often criticized the treatment of these defendants compared to others involved in protests. Trump’s upcoming pardons are viewed as a means to address perceived injustices faced by these individuals and to signal a new direction for his administration.
After he becomes America’s 47th president on Monday in a Capitol rotunda ceremony, President Donald Trump will begin pardoning Americans he believes were wrongfully persecuted in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, demonstration and the Capitol incursion that followed.
The pardons have been drafted and await Trump’s signature, CNN reported, citing sources it did not name.
“Tomorrow everyone in this arena will be very happy with my decision on the J6 hostages,” Trump said Sunday night at a Washington, D.C., rally, according to WUSA.
“I think you’ll be very, very happy,” he said,
Although Trump has not said how many pardons will be issued he said in a recent news conference he would issue “major pardons,” according to The New York Times.
The CNN report noted that Trump said in a December interview that the Jan. 6 pardons are a priority.
“I’ll be looking at J6 early on, maybe the first nine minutes,” he said.
About 1,270 people were convicted for their activities on Jan. 6, 2021, as Trump supporters converged on the Capitol for a protest march over the results of the 2020 election that grew into a riot.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance believe“peaceful protesters should be pardoned, but violent criminals should not.”
“What President Trump is getting at is the lack of faith that people have right now in our system of justice. It was abused for the last few years, under the last four years on the Biden administration, the Department of Justice itself was weaponized when the people lose their faith in our system of justice,” Johnson said.
“That is what leads to all these other concerns, and President Trump’s going to restore that we’re going to have new leadership,” he said.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said Trump reviewed the sentences “case by case.”
“It’s a power solely with the president, case by case, person by person, and the President has complete authority to pardon who he wants to pardon,” Jordan said. “But I think he’s going to focus on those … all the people who didn’t commit any violence.”
Trump has long been vocal in his support for the Jan. 6 defendants.
“There’s never been a thing like this has happened in our country and I want to tell everybody that’s listening ‘We’re with you.’ We’re working with a lot of different people on this,” Trump said when he called into a 2022 rally.
Trump said the incursion participants are being subjected to different treatment than all others arrested in various protests.
“You look at all of the riots that took place for the last long period of time, not just in 2020, the last long period of time, and almost nothing has happened to those people,” he said. “And what they’re doing here is a disgrace; it’s a disgrace to our country and it cannot be allowed to happen and it cannot be allowed to continue.”
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