On his first full day in office, the president of the United States defended his decision to grant full pardons to the perpetrators of the January 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol. He suggested that far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers could take part in politics.
Donald Trump, the newly inaugurated president of the United States, defended the decision to grant amnesty to people found guilty. attacked police officers During the attack on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021.
Trump suggested it might be a place in politics American for far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath KeepersOrganized in the chaos that broke out on January 6 and called on his followers to violence. Leaders of both groups were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States.
Trump evaluated his first hours in the Oval Office of the White House Delete records from more than 200 people He is the man who pleaded guilty to attacking agents in the Capitol siege four years ago and released from prison nearly 1,500 people convicted of trying to overthrow the Government.
riot triggered after Refuses to accept defeat in 2020 presidential election against Democrat Joe Biden. At least 140 police officers were injured, many of whom were beaten, bloodied and trampled by the mob as Trump supporters tried to overturn Trump’s election defeat.
Before the attack on the Capitol, the Proud Boys were a group best known for themselves. Street fights with anti-fascist activists. The group’s former leader, Enrique Tarrio, and three of his aides were convicted of seditious conspiracy in a violent plot to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Trump to Biden.
Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prisonIt was the longest of all the Capitol riot trials before Trump pardoned him on Monday. To a reporter’s question about the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and whether there was a place for them in politics, the 47th US president responded: “Well, we’ll have to see. They’ve been granted amnesty.” ridiculous and excessive.”
Trump continued: “These were people who truly loved our country.”He noted that some group members were sentenced to “many years in prison” for actions as trivial as “taking down an anti-American flag.”
Trump’s vice president J.D. Vance“Obviously, those who previously committed acts of violence on January 6 they should not be forgivenResponding to a reporter who asked him why he thought the vice president was wrong, Trump said, “They spent years in prison, and murderers don’t even go to prison in this country.”
Trump claimed his decision was fair, saying the nearly 1,500 people who received full pardons did not do enough to justify their sentences. He emphasized that: 16 switching The reason for his sentencing of some defendants was that “they may have done things that are unacceptable for a full pardon.”
Trump emphasized that he won the 2024 elections “overwhelmingly” against former US Vice President Kamala Harris. Americans are tired of “horrible, one-sided people.” The new American president serving his second and third term last termHe claims his presidency will be one that will “shock people” and insists that his policies will always “put America first” and return the country to its former glory, tarnished by the four-year Biden administration.
