Even some Republican lawmakers appeared unhappy aboutTrump's pardon or commutation of 1,600 Capitol riot defendants.

President Donald Trump quickly signed off on executive orders on Monday, his first day in the Oval Office. He also pardoned over 1,500 people charged with attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, 34 of them from South Carolina.

Senate Democrats are unveiling a resolution on Monday that would condemn President Trump’s pardons of those found guilty of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.  The

President Donald Trump said Monday evening he had pardoned virtually all of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendants and commuted the sentences of the remaining 14 — a broad move that gives some form of clemency to all those charged or convicted in the riot.

Two men from New England had very different reactions to their names being cleared for their roles in the Capitol riot.

Donald Trump issued pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, one of his first acts after being sworn in as the country’s 47th president on Monday.

Within a few hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed pardons for about 1,500 people involved in the U.S. Capitol riot four years ago on January

Pamela Hemphill said she was “in a cult” and got out, and called pardons a slap in the face of police officers who were attacked.

At least 11 Arizonans were convicted in connection with the riot. They ranged from Phoenix resident Jake Angeli, the “QAnon shaman” who became the worldwide face of the riot to a pair of Tucson siblings mostly forgotten among the more than 1,500 cases stemming from the violence.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president's pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it could lead to more violence.

A former U.S. Capitol Police officer is weighing on the rioters who were pardoned for storming the Capital on Jan. 6, 2021.