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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the president Donald Trump’s The decision to pardon more than 1,000 people involved in the January 6, 2021 riots was “un-American.”
Schumer told reporters Tuesday that the pardons were “deeply un-American,” noting that some of those pardoned were convicted of crimes such as seditious conspiracy.
“There is no other way to describe President Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 defenders as un-American,” Schumer said. “It’s very un-American to do that, to pardon. And let’s be clear, President Trump didn’t just pardon protesters. He pardoned people convicted of assaulting police officers. He pardoned people convicted of seditious conspiracy. And he pardoned those. who tried to undermine our democracy.”
Trump signed pardons late Monday for roughly 1,500 defendants accused of crimes stemming from the riots at the U.S. Capitol, keeping a promise he made in December to act quickly and pardon them.
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President Donald Trump signs pardons for the Jan. 6 indictees in the Oval Office of the White House on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
In addition, on Monday he commuted the sentences of six people, including the leaders of the extremist groups Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Schumer echoed sentiments that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., shared about the pardons. Pelosi called the pardons “disgraceful” and said to remember the “courage” of law enforcement “heroes” who “made sure democracy survived.”
“The president’s actions are an outrageous insult to our justice system and to the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma while protecting the Capitol, Congress and the Constitution,” said Pelosi, who did not attend Monday’s impeachment. Trump possession. statement sent to X.
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In addition to the pardons, President Donald Trump commuted the sentences of six people on January 20, 2025, including the leaders of the extremist groups Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
“It is shameful that the president has chosen to make one of his highest priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who risk their lives to stop an attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power,” Pelosi wrote.
The rioters assaulted approx 140 police officers of both the United States Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, the Department of Justice reported.
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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it at an inauguration parade indoors in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Trump announced plans to issue the pardon on Monday, calling those charged with crimes for their involvement in the Capitol storming “hostages.”
“Tonight I’m going to sign the J6 hostages, pardons to get them out,” Trump said at an inaugural parade at Capital One Arena. “I’m going to the Oval Office and we’re going to sign pardons for a lot of people.”
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Trump signed a series of executive orders Inauguration daytogether with pardons. Other directives included the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord that the U.S. initially signed under former President Barack Obama’s administration in 2015, but which Trump withdrew during his first term.
