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Over a thousand Jan 6th rioters pardoned in Trump's return to the White House

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Publish Date
Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 7:43am
People gather at the DC Central Detention Facility on on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump has alluded to pardoning January 6 rioters after taking office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. (Photo by Bryan Woolston/Getty Images)
People gather at the DC Central Detention Facility on on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump has alluded to pardoning January 6 rioters after taking office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. (Photo by Bryan Woolston/Getty Images)

Over a thousand Jan 6th rioters pardoned in Trump's return to the White House

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 7:43am

There's outrage over Donald Trump's decision to release convicted Capitol rioters from prison.  

The new President has signed off a flurry of executive orders following his inauguration, many sparking national and global concern. 

Trump's issued pardons and commutations to more than a thousand felons involved in the attacks to disrupt the transfer of power on January 6th, 2021.  

US correspondent Richard Arnold told Ryan Bridge that includes those convicted of assaulting police officers, many of whom are feeling betrayed.  

He says Trump's taken to calling those tried and convicted of crimes, 'hostages', and has often played a recording of them singing The Stars and Stripes Forever from prison. 

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