CNN —President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to pardon US Capitol rioters on Day One, but one month before Inauguration Day it’s not clear who among the hundreds of convicted rioters, defendants awaiting trial and remaining fugitives would receive clemency.
In a Time Magazine interview conducted last month and published Thursday, the president-elect said he would look at rioters’ cases individually.
Some judges in Washington, DC, have also been publicly critical of Trump’s attempts to whitewash the riot’s causes and violence.
One major question has been where a line might be drawn among the Capitol riot defendants who would be eligible for Trump’s clemency, and what would qualify as violent versus non-violent actions.
One judge, Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, made pointed comments in a hearing for a Capitol riot defendant two weeks after this year’s election.
Persons:
Donald Trump, Trump, ”, “ I’m, “, CNN they’ve, –, Royce Lamberth, Reagan, Lamberth, Martin Luther King Jr, ” Trump, Joseph McBride, ” McBride, Joe Biden’s, Hunter, they’ve, “ I’ve, it’s, Court haven’t, Carl Nichols, that’s, ” Nichols, Jacob Joseph Lang, Nichols, There’s, Stewart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, Nayib Hassan, Tarrio hasn’t, Joseph Biggs, Rhodes, Stewart, ” Rhodes, James Lee Bright, Bright, ” Bright, “ He’s, ” CNN’s Marshall Cohen, Curt Devine, Casey Gannon
Organizations:
CNN, Capitol, Trump, Justice Department, Justice, NBC News, DC, Court, Boys
Locations:
Washington ,, wasn’t