President-elect Donald Trump announced on Dec. 8 that he will move to “very quickly” pardon those pursued by the Department of Justice in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
“I’m going to be acting very quickly,” Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker, clarifying that he would begin the process of considering pardons for the nearly 1,500 people charged in connection with the event starting on his first day in office.
“These people have been there for how long? It’s three, four years. You know, by the way, they’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open,” Trump said, referencing the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Jail, a facility that has long been dubbed the “gulag” by its critics….