Former U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he will pardon the individuals charged and prosecuted for their involvement in the January 6 Capitol Hill riots if he runs for the Presidential elections again in 2024 and wins it.
“Another thing we'll do, and so many people have been asking me about it, if I run and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly," Trump said to applause. "We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly,” Trump said while addressing a rally in Conroe, Texas.
On 6th January 2021, a mob of Trump supporters gathered at the Capitol Hill and forcefully entered the U.S. Congress, the heart of the country’s democracy. The objective was to disrupt the newly-elected lawmakers from certifying Joe Biden’s Presidency.
Also read| No plans to send combat troops to Ukraine if Russia invades: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg
Recently in a rally in Arizona, Trump once again reiterated his claim that the 2020 Presidential elections were not honest. “The radical Democrats want to turn the United States into a communist country. We won those elections. We won them big. We can't let them get away with it… If an election were held today, we would trounce them so badly in a landslide in every way, just as we really did on Nov. 3. We trounced them. If we had an honest press, the election would have been much different,” Trump claimed.
The "U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol” is a committee formed by the U.S House of Representatives formed on 1st July to investigate the Capitol Hills attack. As per the official website of the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia, as of 30th December 2021, more than 725 arrests have been made across the country. More than 225 people have been charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees,” and 25 people have been charged with “using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.”
Donald Trump has yet to reveal whether he will take part in the 2024 Presidential race after his defeat to President Biden in the 2020 elections.
Also read| N.Korea confirms test-firing of intermediate-range ballistic missile
Watch video:
President Trump: “If I run & if I win, we will treat those people from January 6th fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.” #TrumpRallyTX
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) January 30, 2022Advertisement
