WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump granted pardons on Monday to more than 1,500 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a sweeping gesture of support to the people who assaulted police as they tried to prevent lawmakers from certifying his 2020 election defeat.

While Europe was sleeping, the storm broke over Washington DC. Within hours of being sworn in as the 47th President, Donald Trump pardoned all but 14 of the people convicted over the 6 January 2021 assault on the US Capitol.

Two of the most high-profile defendents from the 2021 US Capitol riot were included in Trump's sweeping pardons.

US President Donald Trump's pardon has quashed hundreds of pending cases with leaders of the far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers among those pardoned.

Those pardoned include the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Rhodes and Tarrio were two of the highest-profile 6 January defendants.

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,500 people, including some who assaulted police officers. The Federal Bureau of Prisons said 211 people…

Their sentences for seditious conspiracy over the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order by Donald Trump.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who graduated from UNLV and was involved in the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff, had his 18-year prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump.

Trump has repeatedly referred to convicted criminals of both violent and nonviolent offenses related to Jan. 6 as “hostages.”

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 1,500-plus of his supporters charged in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

“The implications are clear,” said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University historian. “Trump will go to great lengths to protect those who act in his name. This is the culmination ...

President Donald Trump has fulfilled a campaign promise by granting clemency to approximately 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, including prominent far-right figures. The pardons, signed during a ceremony in the Oval Office, were described by Trump as an effort to free "patriots" and "hostages" of what he has labeled a politicized judicial system.

Hours after his inauguration, Trump pardoned nearly all individuals charged in connection with the January 6th U.S. Capitol riot, wiping away legal consequences.

More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. police were injured when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol four years ago.

President Donald Trump's decision to pardon roughly 1,500 defendants charged and/or convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol isn't going over well with one high-profile Senate Republican.On Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — who was the Republican leader in th...