US President Donald Trump granted pardons on Monday to more than ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January SIX TWENTY TWENTY TWO
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Trump, just hours after taking office, also ordered that all pending criminal cases against Capitol riot defendants be dropped.
Among those receiving a pardon was Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, who was sentenced to TWNETY TWO years in prison for directing a military-style assault on the Capitol.
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another far-right group, the Oath Keepers, had his EIGHTEEN-year prison sentence commuted to time served. Both Tarrio and Rhodes had been convicted of seditious conspiracy.
