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Published on: 23/01/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
President Donald Trump issuing “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol. He also commuted the sentences of 14 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members who were convicted or charged with seditious conspiracy related to the violence. The next day, Trump announced he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, a dark web marketplace. In more modern history, 14 US presidents since 1945 have together issued more than 9,000 presidential pardons and 6,500 commutations. In this 80-year period, Harry Truman, who served as president from 1945 to 1953, issued the most – 1,913 – followed by Trump, who has issued at least 1,644 in both his terms so far. Lyndon Johnson issuing the third most during his 1963-69 term. Trump granted pardons and commutations to several of those implicated. Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos convicted. In his first term, this included individuals implicated in Robert Mueller special counsel investigation. Biden commuted the sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes committed during his presidency. Many felt that the pardon continued the Watergate cover-up by preventing the possible indictment. Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr, who had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine after being caught trying to sell it to an undercover police officer in the 1980s. In 2020, Trump pardons his son-in-law’s father, Charles Kushner, who was serving two terms in prison for tax evasion. Biden pardoning his son Hunter despite previously saying he wouldn’t.
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I mean, no other US President encouraged his followers to attack the capital and disrupt the validation of an election.
So no other President has been in a position to pardon 1,500 violent, criminal followers.
