Breaking: Trump Pardons 1,500 January 6 Defendants

President Donald Trump issued pardons for 1,500 defendants who were prosecuted for their role in the Capitol riot and said he would commute the sentences of 14 others, fulfilling a campaign promise on his first day in office.

The blanket pardon includes the roughly 900 defendants who were convicted on misdemeanor charges as well as the hundreds of others convicted of more serious offenses. Some 600 January 6 defendants were charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding police, including almost 200 rioters who carried weapons. The misdemeanor defendants, meanwhile, were largely charged for having trespassed in the Capitol without committing any violence or destruction and most received sentences of probation or home confinement.

Several notable defendants, including Infowars host Owen Shroyer and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffien, fall under this umbrella after pleading guilty to misdemeanors for approaching the threshold of the Capitol, even if they didn’t enter the building.

A handful of defendants with criminal histories, or those who showed a lack of remorse or who violated their pretrial conditions of release have served jail time of up to one year.

"If you protested peacefully on January 6th, and you had Merrick Garland's Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned," Vance said earlier this month.

Trump announced that he will commute the sentences of 14 other defendants whose cases he said require more investigation.

Vice President J. D. Vance said last week that violent defendants "obviously" shouldn't be pardoned.

But after receiving pushback, Vance clarified that Trump planned to look into each case. "I assure you, we care about people unjustly locked up. Yes, that includes people provoked and it includes people who got a garbage trial," he said, referring to defendants’ complaints that they received unfair jury trials in liberal Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of other defendants face charges for impeding police during a civil disorder. Many of those defendants pushed against police lines or used their bodies to interfere with law enforcement. Others faced charges related to destruction of government property or carrying firearms on Capitol grounds.

Perhaps the biggest January 6-related cases were the ten seditious conspiracy convictions against members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, including former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who is serving a 22-year prison sentence. Tarrio was accused of orchestrating the riot.

Oath Keepers founder Steward Rhodes is also serving an 18-year sentence for his own role in orchestrating the riot while also collecting firearms in preparation for a potential escalation.

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