Trump says he plans to pardon January 6 rioters on day one: Meet the press
President-elect Donald Trump amnesty plan January 6 rioters on their first day back at the White House, according to a new exclusive interview with NBC Kristen Welker.
the Meet the press host sat down with the former and future president on Friday, before Mr traveling to Paris to meet other world leaders. In the interview broadcast Sunday morning, Trump said he would “act very quickly” because hundreds of individuals attended the meeting. attack on the US Capitol in 2021.
“I’m looking at day one,” Trump said when Welker asked when he planned to grant clemency More than 900 people have pleaded guilty. “How long have these people been there, three or four years, by the way, you know, they’ve been there for many years. And they’re in a dirty, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be open.”
Trump has previously mentioned several January 6 dates rioters as a “hostage” mistreated by the Justice Department — although it’s unclear exactly who he was referring to.
According to report from NBC News, “More than 1,350 people have been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack and prosecutors have handed down more than 950 convictions.” The network found that low-level defendants “regularly received probation, but about 500 received time in custody. The majority of those charged were released before trial.” NBC News identified only 15 defendants who have not been convicted or pleaded guilty and are currently in custody.
Bipartisan Senate report released in June 2021 showed at least seven deaths related to the Capitol insurrection. A month after that report was released, two Capitol Police officers—Gunther Hashida and Kyle DeFreytag—died by suicide in July. “Approximately 150 officers from the Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department and local agencies were injured, and hundreds of workers were injured by the mob,” per report from New York Times. The attack caused, according to one report Since October 2022, the Capitol building and its grounds have suffered an estimated $2.8 million in damage, along with costs borne by the Capitol police.
During their interview, Welker also asked the president-elect about the January 6 Commission, the bipartisan panel tasked with investigating the events that took place that day. Their last 845 pages report called on Congress to bar Trump from holding public office again and noted, at the top of the executive summary, that “None of the events of January 6 would have happened without him.”
