Trump has big plans…
President-elect Donald Trump shared that he plans to immediately pardon “most” rioters accused or convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 after his inauguration.
“It’s going to start in the first hour,” Trump told Time Magazine Thursday, during an interview for his feature as the publication’s 2024 Person of the Year. “Maybe the first nine minutes.”
However, Trump has remained vague on the exact details. More than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack, their conduct ranging from trespassing misdemeanors to assaulting police and seditious conspiracy against the U.S. government.
In court filings, many rioters have expressed they expect immediate relief once Trump returns to the White House. Their lawyers have asked judges to delay sentencing, trials and other proceedings as Inauguration Day nears. However, Judges have largely denied those requests.
Top leaders of the right-wing extremist Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, many convicted of sedition, face decades in prison for their roles in the riot, leading to questions about just how far Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons will go.
Prosecutors in court filings Wednesday argued to a judge that, although Trump’s pardons might erase the penalties for Jan. 6 rioters, they won’t “unring the bell of conviction.”
“In fact, quite the opposite,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Holvey wrote. “The defendant would first have to accept the pardon, which necessitates a confession of guilt.”
On Thursday, President Biden commuted jail sentences for nearly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
Sentences were commuted for inmates placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who “have successfully reintegrated into their families and communities,” according to the announcement. The 39 individuals pardoned were convicted of non-violent crimes, the White House said.
“I will take more steps in the weeks ahead. My Administration will continue reviewing clemency petitions to advance equal justice under the law, promote public safety, support rehabilitation and reentry, and provide meaningful second chances,” Biden said.
Thursday’s pardons come as the president has faced bipartisan criticism for pardoning his son, Hunter, of felony gun and tax charges.
So it remains that even though Joey Biden pardoned his criminal son Hunter, Hunter is still a POS!
Yep. It would be near impossible to wash the turd off of Hunter.
Only criminals need pardons. And from the sweeping nature of the Big Guy’s ‘benevolence’, Hunter has been a criminal for at least 10 years. I guess it beats being a criminal for 50 years, like his dad.
Release them all. Pardons all around. Several years in that hell hole DC jail should be enough for anything that any of them did. It’s time to send these Americans home to their families.
What ‘rioters’??? Show video of specific identifiable individuals before calling all protesters ‘rioters’. And FWIW, no cognizant Law Enforcement org declared Jan6th activity to be a Riot.
He needs to raid the Ukrainian POC and give each and every political prisoner about $2 million for their troubles and illegal incarceration!
‘PAC’
Hooray awesome needed
It is still very annoying that the press never mentions the hard left thugs who started that mess. We know Pelosi bussed in both the antifa and blm disrupters, but apparently none of those clowns were arrested and convicted of any crimes. How convenient!