Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 230
Jan. 6 pardons would be case-by-case and exclude the violent
Broken“[paraphrase] We'll look at each individual case — if somebody was out of control, we'd look at that differently.”
- Promised
- , NBC 'Meet the Press' interview
- Re-promised
- 5 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Justice & the courts
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
On Jan. 20, 2025 — his first day — Trump issued blanket clemency to more than 1,500 people charged in the Capitol attack, including people convicted of assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy, rather than the case-by-case review he had described. PolitiFact rated the underlying pardon promise Kept, but the promised individualized screening never occurred.