Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Will Trump pardon all those convicted for January 6 assault?

Following Joe Biden's dramatic change of mind and his declaration of a full, unconditional pardon for his son Hunter, will Donald Trumo do likewise for the people charged and convicted for crimes associated with the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021? He will feel that he has the right to pardon the lot and cite Biden as an example of how the Justice Department should be ignored. Nearly 1,000 people have been convicted for crimes related to January 6, many with prison sentences. Trump will be tempted to let them all out of jail. He has in the past described them as patriots because they were trying to reinstate the 2020 election result in his favour which was right and proper and constitutional because, in his view, he won and Biden lost. Trump, when he is president, might go ahead and do this anyway, but Biden's pardoning of his son Hunter has just made it easier for him to justify such action. Forty-eight days left before Trump takes over from Biden and it seems the whole of Washington and every nation around the planet are waiting and holding their breath for the first of Trump's executive decisions. Pardons, I suspect, will be one of then, followed closely by an edict on illegal immigration, a plan to end the war in Ukraine and a massive boost to Israel to destroy the last remnants of Hamas in Gaza.

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