{"id":2387443,"date":"2025-01-07T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signals-major-pardons-on-the-way-for-jan-6-defendants\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:12:16","slug":"trump-signals-major-pardons-on-the-way-for-jan-6-defendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-signals-major-pardons-on-the-way-for-jan-6-defendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signals \u2018major pardons\u2019 on the way for Jan. 6 defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-signals-major-pardons-on-the-way-for-jan-6-defendants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2387443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-cuomo-shunned-experts-embraced-lobbyists-drove-top-health-officials-to-quit-over-pandemic-response-report\/\" title=\"NY Gov. Cuomo Shunned Experts, Embraced Lobbyists, Drove Top Health Officials To Quit Over Pandemic Response: Report\">recent press conference<\/a> at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald Trump indicated his intention to grant meaningful pardons to defendants charged in \u2062connection with the January 6 Capitol riot. He responded to \u2062questions about whether he\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">woudl pardon individuals\u2062 charged<\/a> with violent \u2062offenses, stating \u200cthat he is evaluating the matter\u2064 and \u200dhas identified injustices in the prosecutions related to the \u2064events of the riot.Trump expressed that\u2062 some individuals who committed serious offenses were not prosecuted,\u200d while others who merely entered the \u200bCapitol are facing imprisonment. His comments came\u200d a day \u200bafter the four-year anniversary\u200b of the riot,during which a mob stormed the Capitol \u2064following his speech protesting the 2020 election results.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump signals &lsquo;major pardons&rsquo; on the way for Jan. 6 defendants<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1929741\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> offered his latest signal that he plans to grant sweeping pardons for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3275525\/democrats-jan-6-messaging-trump-election-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jan. 6 defendants <\/a>during a Tuesday press conference, vowing to address what he called injustices stemming from the 2021 Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A reporter asked Trump at Mar-a-Lago, &ldquo;You said on your first day of office you were going to pardon Jan. 6 defendants. Are you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3278951\/trump-rename-gulf-of-mexico-gulf-of-america-mar-a-lago-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP SAYS HE WILL CHANGE THE NAME OF GULF OF MEXICO TO &lsquo;GULF OF AMERICA&rsquo;\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS HE WILL CHANGE THE NAME OF GULF OF MEXICO TO &lsquo;GULF OF AMERICA&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;re looking at it, and we have other people in there,&rdquo; Trump said, later adding there were people who were &ldquo;doing some bad things weren&rsquo;t prosecuted, and people that didn&rsquo;t even walk into the building are in jail right now. So, we&rsquo;ll be looking at the whole thing. But I&rsquo;ll be making major pardons, yes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s comments come just one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3276112\/jan-6-defendants-rally-pardons-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the four-year anniversary of the riot<\/a>, when a violent mob entered the Capitol after Trump gave a speech at the Ellipse in protest of his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump just announced that he&rsquo;ll be making &ldquo;major pardons&rdquo; for the January 6th political prisoners! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8GPZqQl4GL\">pic.twitter.com\/8GPZqQl4GL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryann McEnany (@RyannMcEnany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyannMcEnany\/status\/1876678324782592489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>He stood firm in his defense of the late Ashli Babbitt, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-impeachment-updates-house-reconvenes-to-debate-trump-impeachment\/\" title=\"Live impeachment updates: House reconvenes to debate Trump impeachment\">rioter fatally shot<\/a> by Capitol Police during the breach. &ldquo;The only one that was killed was a beautiful young lady named Ashli Babbitt,&rdquo; Trump told reporters, adding she &ldquo;should have never been shot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In fact, they say that she was trying to hold back the crowd, and the crowd was made up of a lot of different people, so we&rsquo;ll see,&rdquo; Trump said, lacking clarity about the scope of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-defendants-rally-for-trump-pardons-on-riot-anniversary\/\" title=\"Jan. 6 defendants rally for Trump pardons on riot anniversary\">broad pardons<\/a> that could potentially affect more than 1,500 people prosecuted for participating in the riot.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also criticized the Justice Department&rsquo;s handling of the events, calling it the &ldquo;only insurrection in history&rdquo; without weapons. <\/p>\n<p>The former president notably made a bold assertion against the FBI, accusing the bureau of withholding information about the person who planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The FBI knows who it is. The status of the FBI has gone down,&rdquo; he asserted, claiming the agency&rsquo;s credibility has been damaged under President Joe Biden and suggested his administration would investigate any alleged involvement by the bureau in the riot.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re looking at it and other people are there, and 26, 28 people from the FBI came out very quietly, and nobody reported it,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But they had people in some form related to the FBI. They had four or five people strongly related to the FBI. We have to find out about that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s remarks follow last month&rsquo;s inspector general&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3258901\/watchdog-reveals-fbi-had-26-undercover-sources-in-dc-during-jan-6-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;from the Biden Justice Department, which detailed the FBI&rsquo;s use of confidential informants and prompted questions about their roles in the Jan. 6 protest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE&nbsp;TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump repeatedly made comments condemning the treatment of Jan. 6 defendants during his 2024 presidential campaign but has maintained a vague approach to his plans, not specifying any number of pardons he may issue as he returns to the Oval Office at noon on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>While he stopped short of naming specific individuals who could receive pardons, his allies, including Article III Project founder Mike Davis, have pushed him to initiate broad pardons for anyone charged in relation to the protest and to commute the sentences for defendants facing years of prison time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1929741\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1929741\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump hints at significant pardons for Jan. 6 defendants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2387444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25007597250587.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21072,32087,4133,12559,3634],"class_list":["post-2387443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-defendants","tag-jan-6","tag-news","tag-pardons","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25007597250587.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387447,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387443\/revisions\/2387447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}