Just hours after his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, President Donald Trump pardoned the more than 1,500 people charged in connection to to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The pardons and commuted sentences were extended to members and leaders of far-right groups,

President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and commuted the sentences for 14.

Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.

The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.

The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

Forty-seven-year-old David Moerschel, of Punta Gorda, is one of the 14 people whose sentences were commuted by President Donald Trump.

Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan.

A Capitol Police Department officer didn't hold back when responding to the news of one of the most violent January 6 defendants being pardoned by President Donald Trump. During a Wednesday interview on CNN,

The implications are clear,” said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University historian. “Trump will go to great lengths to protect those who act in his name. This is the culmination

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan. 6, 2021,

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