The soon-to-be president plans to start the process within minutes of taking office.
In an interview with Time magazine on Thursday, December 12, President-elect Donald Trump said he would immediately pardon “most” of the people who have been charged for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The once and future commander-in-chief’s promise follows sitting President Joe Biden’s record-breaking spree of pardons and sentence commutations – and the release of a report from the Office of the Inspector General that revealed more than a dozen FBI confidential informants participated in the Jan. 6 riot.
Trump Tackles Jan. 6
“It’s going to start in the first hour,” Trump said. “Maybe the first nine minutes.” The interview was a part of his feature in the magazine, which named him the 2024 Person of the Year….
