Nearly 500 people have been sentenced to incarceration over the Jan. 6 riot, and prosecutors have secured more than 950 convictions.

Former President Donald Trump said Monday that one of his first acts as president if he wins in November would be to “free” those charged and convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.

It appeared to be the first time that he has definitively referred to releasing the Jan. 6 defendants as a Day One priority.

A spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s campaign, Sarafina Chitika, said in a statement in response to Trump’s comments that the former president “has shown he’ll do whatever it takes to hold on to power — including excusing and encouraging political violence.”

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    A lot of people attended January 6th and weren’t prosecuted - these folks are the ones that had really clear insurrectionist intent and most have a history of similar actions. Trump is proposing pardoning the most anti-American people in the country.

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    I sure as shit hope all the law enforcement people are seeing that apparently it is ok to break the law and kill police officers in his book.

    Next to that some of these people where actually convicted of insurrection. So, accessory after the fact?

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    If you are curious why Trump has any support at all, note that his statement fits in a tweet, while the Biden administration response took paragraphs. Like it or not, he knows how to hold his supporters’ attention, and have them believe what he wants them to believe.

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    Ddnt he promise them pardons/protection before they did it?

    and they were shocked and awed over the fact he ignored them immediately after?

    I guess that means his idiot base will suck this up again, despite already lying about it once.

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      Amazingly, he could have put out a blanket pardon of everyone before leaving office but didn’t. This is because he doesn’t think about other people, he only thinks about what he can get from them.

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    Lmao, he won’t do anything, just like all the bs he said he’d do last time, and instead focus on grifting as much money as he can for himself and his family by selling secrets by any means necessary

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      He’ll not have to worry about (legal) reelection, so he’ll be free to do those things without political repercussions now.

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    He will regret that once he gets to the second paper he would have to sign. His wittle hands will start to hurt. If he doesn’t flush the papers first.

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      His advisors probably wouldn’t let him. I don’t think he really expected to win the first time, so he had to fill his staff out with career Republicans who weren’t so high on the Insurrection thing. He won’t make that mistake again . All the advisors in the second Trump administraton will owe their loyalty to him, exclusively.

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        I kind of doubt that, actually. He’s already proven himself to be a useful idiot, and he’s becoming less useful and more idiot as the days go by. If he does manage to get elected again he’s not the one that’s going to be in charge, he’ll almost certainly be swamped with handlers who will instruct him on which bills to sign and what words to say in order to advance their own agenda.

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          Right, but last time some of those handlers were more traditional Republicans. This time, it’s Nazis all the way down.

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      He does not and he will not. Dude is going to grind through the federal court system until the SCOTUS throws out all the charges. Then maybe a NY court will establish some kind of criminal charge, but it’ll fizzle out once he’s sworn in again.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    A spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s campaign, Sarafina Chitika, said in a statement in response to Trump’s comments that the former president “has shown he’ll do whatever it takes to hold on to power — including excusing and encouraging political violence.”

    "The American people haven’t forgotten the violent attack at our Capitol on January 6 — they know Trump is too dangerous to be let anywhere near the Oval Office again, and they’ll turn out to protect our democracy and keep Trump out of the White House this November,” Chitika said.

    Trump has repeatedly called on Biden to “release” the Jan. 6 defendants and has suggested he would be likely pardon a large number of them if he is elected in November.

    He also regularly characterizes the defendants as “hostages,” a comparison the White House has called “grotesque.”

    Last year, Trump promised that he would pardon a “large portion” of Jan. 6 defendants, adding that he would do it “very early on.”

    The charges included conspiring to defraud the country and obstructing an official proceeding.


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