“Does Joe Hunter’s pardon include the January 6th hostages who have been held captive for years? Such abuse and failure of Justice!” wrote the re-elected President Trump on Monday on his own social network Truth Social.
It is not the first time that Trump has publicly supported convicts whose rampage claimed five human lives. Another four police officers who stood in the way of the enraged crowd then committed suicide in the days and months after the event. The entire incident led to one of the largest criminal investigations in US history. Almost 1,500 people were charged, of which a thousand were either found guilty or confessed themselves, reports The Guardian.
In addition, this investigation is still ongoing. Just last month, the FBI announced that it was looking for nine more people in connection with the violent assault on police officers during the attack on the Capitol. Regardless of the seriousness of their crimes, Trump has long publicly indicated that he will pardon the criminals, whom he calls either “hostages” or “political prisoners.” President Biden has now given him a useful argument by pardoning his own son despite his promise not to do so.
He is innocent, US President Biden decided and pardoned his son Hunter
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However, the re-elected president publicly denies that he would declare a complete amnesty for all persons convicted in connection with January 6, 2021.
“I can’t vouch for all of them because a few of them probably broke off the chain,” he told CNN.
Extremists celebrate
Some of those sentenced with the longest sentences did not participate in the violence in the Capitol, but were convicted of “seditious conspiracy” and others of charges related to the organization of the attack. These include, for example, the founder of the far-right militia Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes or the leader of the neo-fascist organization Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio. It is not clear how Trump views these cases, but there is currently high hope in their camps that they will be pardoned.
The lawyers of another member of the Proud Boys, Joe Biggs, who was sentenced to seventeen years in prison, for example, for seditious conspiracy or intimidation of election officials, have already stated that they will directly apply for clemency. Biggs himself defended himself in court that he followed Trump’s orders.
“HE’S COMING HOME!!!! POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM JANUARY 6 ARE FINALLY COMING HOME!!!!” Jake Lang, accused of several crimes including assaulting police officers, celebrated on social networks after Trump’s election victory.
I’m getting ready for a real uprising, the man convicted of breaking into the Capitol told Novinka
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