Trump’s Sweeping Pardons & ICE Teams Deployed | 1.22.25
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Hundreds of J6 defendants are liberated following sweeping pardons from President Trump.
Four years of fighting, four years of struggling, and I'm finally free. I don't even have the words to thank President Trump. We discuss how the president has handled the cases and who else may be poised for a pardon.
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During his first two days in office, President Trump issued a host of pardons, including to nearly all January 6th defendants.
Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Prestigiacomo. Hey, Amanda. So we noted yesterday that Trump signed a sweeping pardon to J6 defendants. He's fulfilling a key campaign promise in a really expansive way. What exactly did the order say?
Right, so the order grants full pardons for every person convicted in relation to Jay Sixth, with the exception of just 14 commutations. Those individuals had their sentences commuted, but their convictions still stand as of right now. Trump said he would look further into those cases and said potential pardons could be forthcoming. Additionally, the hundreds of cases still pending indictments, those will be dismissed with prejudice. That means they can never be tried again for those charges. Trump was questioned about the order in the Oval Office on Monday. Here's what he said about the protesters that were actually violent being pardoned.
Well, I will say this. They've been in jail for a long time already. I see murderers in this country get two years, one year, and maybe no time. So they've already been in jail for a long time. These people have been destroyed. What they've done to these people is outrageous.
Everyone who was given a full pardon was supposed to be released right away. However, there were reports of delays at a D.C. jail. Utah Senator Mike Lee expressed outrage over those delays, and he said he was working to verify what was going on. Morning Wire reached out to William Shipley, an attorney representing dozens of J6 defendants, including the so-called QAnon shaman, and he said that all the prisoners should now have been released. We also asked Shipley about the complaint that Trump has pardoned some defendants who were engaged in some violence. He defended Trump's decision, and he said that the blame for the demise of these cases falls on the Biden Justice Department.
The reality is that January 6th defendants could not receive a fair trial in the District of Columbia, given the juror pool. the fact that the government never moved off of that position, which is reflected by the fact that so many defendants opted for bench trials to avoid the D.C. jurors. I mean, that speaks volumes. That very fact that January 6th defendants could not get their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to a fair trial in the District of Columbia justifies the pardons. The Biden Justice Department has themselves to blame for that fact.
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