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This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation,
Trump said in a proclamation posted on the White House website If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned,
So they’ve already been in jail for a long time,
Trump said as he signed the pardons It is shameful that the President has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who put their lives on the line to stop an attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power,
Tonight I'm going to be signing on the J6 hostages, pardons to get them out,
Trump said at the parade at Capital One Arena in Washington The President's actions are an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution,
Pelosi, who didn’t attend Trump’s inauguration Monday, said in a statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,
Biden said in a statement We won, we won, but now the work begins,
Trump said to start his remarks at the end of the parade in the packed Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me -- the worst kind of partisan politics,
These are the hostages -- approximately 1,500 people -- for a pardon, full pardon,
news agency AFP quoted Donald Trump as saying at a signing ceremony shortly after arriving at the White House We all believe God’s hand has been on this man to be elected,
said Pam Pollard, 65, a longtime Republican official from Oklahoma I think this is a better speech than the one I gave upstairs.”
He spoke for even longer than in his inaugural address, saying
