NPR - While Trump initially condemned the Jan. 6 attack, he soon switched his stance by embracing the rioters as “political prisoners.” On Jan. 12, 2025, just eight days before Trump’s inauguration, incoming Vice President Vance said that the administration would not pardon defendants convicted of assaulting police. But one of Trump’s first acts in office was to grant full pardons to most defendants. Only 14 defendants — all of whom were linked to extremist groups — received commutations, meaning they were released from prison, but the convictions remained on their records. The Trump administration then deleted a government database containing cases linked to the attack. Evidence began disappearing from a site that shared court exhibits with the media. Explore the aftermath of the pardons, including which Trump appointees advocated for Jan. 6 defendants.
To learn more, explore NPR's database of federal criminal cases from Jan. 6. You can also see more of NPR's reporting on the topic.
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