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 the U.S. Senate for 17 years — openly criticized the 47th president of the United States in an interview with Semafor. McConnell referenced Vice President JD Vance's remarks a week before the inauguration in which he said that January 6 rioters who attacked police...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a former member of the Jan. 6 committee, sought to distinguish between the pardon he received from former President Biden compared to those President Trump gave to those who stormed the Capitol. Just hours apart, both Biden and Trump issued a number of pardons. An order from Biden gave a preemptive pardon to all nine members of the panel that investigated the attack on the Capitol, while Trump, through a series of pardons and commutations, cleared the slate for the more than 1,500 people being prosecuted...

President Donald Trump’s pardoning of all Jan. 6 Capitol protesters has prompted demands that he investigate the dragnet used by former President Joe Biden’s FBI and Justice Department to charge over 1,500 people. “What’s needed next is for the new Department of Justice and congressional leadership to conduct investigations, hold the criminals who perpetrated this injustice accountable, and provide restitution to the victims,” said Matt Braynard, executive director of Look Ahead America, which sought to free rioters and draw attention to Ashli Babbitt, shot dead by a U.S.

The proof is in the report. Former GOP congresswoman turned Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney welcomed the president back to the White House with a social media jab. “Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor Center today were a reminder that neither lies nor the liar who tells them get better with age. The Select Committee evidence is available on multiple websites and, as a criminal defendant, Donald Trump has had access to all the transcripts…” Cheney posted to X. The final report was released in 2022. It asserted Trump criminally...

And, up until Monday evening, Niemela was still on federal probation , restricted from traveling outside 70 miles of her home in Southern New Hampshire. HUDSON, N.H. — Kirstyn Niemela served eight months in a federal prison in West Virginia for entering the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, part of a massive crowd determined to stop lawmakers from certifying results of the 2020 election. 06NHjan6 - Kirstyn Niemela, 36, of Hudson, N.H., who was among those convicted for entering the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, adjusts a...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned nearly all the January 6 defendants, and commuted the sentences of others, in a major first move in office he had been promising for over a year on the campaign trail. Trump signed a slew of executive actions upon his return to the Oval Office on Monday night after his inauguration ceremony and celebration, including massive pardons for January 6 offenders. While some the right was celebratory on social media, others on that side were decidedly less so. And on the left the reaction...

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney responded to insults lobbed at her by President Donald Trump in a speech on Inauguration Day. Trump was addressing supporters in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall when he talked about a pardon issued to Cheney by former President Joe Biden just before he stepped down from his office. 'Neither lies nor the liar who tells them get better with age.' “Why are we helping some of these people? Why are we helping Liz Cheney? She’s a disaster — she’s a crying lunatic,” he said. "One day, when...

Minutes after his second inaugural address concluded Donald Trump unloaded on his political enemies to a friendly overflow crowd and said his wife Melania got him to excise language calling January 6 defendants 'hostages.' Speaking inside the Capitol Visitors Center, Trump weighed in on his reservations about bringing the inauguration inside, called Nancy Pelosi 'guilty as hell', and fumed about President Biden's pardon of Liz Cheney.

President Donald Trump wasted no time in criticizing former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) on Monday. Trump took aim at the two former lawmakers hours after former President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. “I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the ‘unselect...

President Trump, whose inauguration audience was limited in size because of the decision to move it indoors in inclement weather in Washington, met shortly after his speech with a rally of his fans, to deliver another speech. In this one, he repeatedly said there were things he “shouldn’t” be saying. But he did. “You’re a younger, far more beautiful audience than what I just spoke to,” he said. “More powerful than them, look better than them.” That, he said, we want to keep “off the record.” He noted that during...