Trump pardons 1,500 people prosecuted for assault on the Capitol and commutes the most serious sentences
On his first day in the Oval Office, the president decrees a ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardon that includes January 6 prisoners who committed violent acts
Just hours after being sworn in at a ceremony held indoors due to the low temperatures in Washington, Donald Trump, the new president of the United States, signed an executive order on Monday to pardon or commute the sentences of 1,500 people convicted or prosecuted for participating in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In addition, he commuted six sentences, and it is understood these carried the most serious sentences. The Capitol riots took place during the final days of Trump’s first presidency and at the end of a rally in which the outgoing president encouraged his supporters to storm Congress. It was one of the darkest days in the recent history of democracy in the United States.
