Ex-U.S. Capitol Police Officer Remembers Jan. 6, CNN Defamation Trial, Golden Globes
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Donald Trump has said he will pardon the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. A retired Capitol Police officer says that feels like betrayal.
So it feels like sometimes, like, what did I risk my life for?
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Today is January 6th when Congress is set to certify Donald Trump's victory in the Electoral College.
We are expecting a much different scene than four years ago today when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. About 140 police officers were injured. The FBI calls the attack an act of domestic terrorism. Trump has referred to January 6th as a, quote, day of love, and he's promised to pardon people charged for their role in the attack.
NPR's Tom Dreisbach has been covering January 6th and its aftermath the last four years. He's with us now. Tom, I was sitting at the KPCC studios in Pasadena in stunned silence. I mean, an event that so many of us watched on TV has so many different interpretations. How can that be? Well, in a word, politics.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the FBI Justice Department launched what became the largest single investigation in their histories. More than 1,500 cases, hundreds of those for violent assaults on police officers. And the most serious cases were for seditious conspiracy against leaders of extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Most defendants pleaded guilty. The people that went to trial were virtually all convicted by juries or in some cases by judges. And as these prosecutions have gone on, the facts that emerged have only been more alarming. We've seen more videos of violence. We learned more people had weapons like guns, bats, tasers, pepper spray. But as Trump ran for president again, he embraced this idea that the violence on January 6th was overblown. He claimed there were no guns, which is not true. And he claimed to supporters that most got a little out of hand, that they've been unjustly prosecuted in his view. And that's a narrative, though, I should say, that judges that actually heard these cases saw the evidence and
including judges he appointed, they rejected those claims again and again. Okay, now that he won the election, what do we know about Trump's plan for pardons? Well, during the campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to issue pardons on day one, but he's been vague about exactly whom he would pardon. At times, he said it would be on a case-by-case basis.
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