President Donald Trump pardoned approximately 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants on Monday, marking his first major executive action after being sworn in as president and fulfilling a key campaign promise to release those he repeatedly called “hostages.

Trump's blanket order came the same day that Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue pre-emptive pardons for his brothers and sister, as well as members of the US House of Representatives committee whose investigation into the Capitol riot concluded Trump was to blame.

Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio were released from serving lengthy prison terms for convictions of seditious conspiracy.

Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison in August 2023. President Donald J. Trump commuted his sentence.

Tiger King star Joe Exotic slammed Donald Trump for again failing to pardon him and said he would have been better off if he had stormed the US Capitol on January 6. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

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Thompson encouraged Americans to pay attention to how Trump is starting his second term after he issued 1,500 pardons to Jan. 6 rioters.

US President Donald Trump has granted pardons to 1,500 individuals convicted or charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, where thousands of his supporters stormed the building in a failed bid to prevent the certification of his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.

Live: Rhodes and Tarrio were two of the highest-profile defendants Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what became the largest investigation in Justice Department history.

The US Constitution grants presidents with the authority of executive clemency for individuals convicted in federal criminal cases.