President Trump pardoned on Monday nearly all of the 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, hours after outgoing President Joe Biden immunized from prosecution family members and other potential targets of the incoming administration.
Trump’s sweeping clemency delivered on his polarizing campaign pledge to pardon supporters who joined in what federal judges and prosecutors have called an attack on American democracy.
The new president made the announcement after arriving at the White House, effectively wiping away four years of prosecutions, including more than 1,100 convictions in what Justice Department officials have described as the largest investigation in U.S. history. While pardoning virtually all of those charged, Trump commuted the sentences of more than a dozen others. Continue here....
-- WSJ, Catherine Lucey, Ken Thomas, C. Ryan Barber
Lot's of related opinion, of course (here's one by Ali Breland and another from Lisa Murkowski); not to mention overt fear. Apparently, we going to need means of preserving the truth, too; so, here's Adam Kinzinger's perspective.
