Washington (CNN) — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday.

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Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday.

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President Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency for nearly 1,500 Jan. 6 protestors, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers.

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By Lauren Fox, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican senators struggled to defend Donald Trump’s decision to commute and pardon hundreds of January 6 protesters, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers, just hours after the president entered office Monday. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has warned before about giving a blanket pardon to the rioters, said, “I just can’t agree” with Tru…

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended President Trump’s sweeping pardons of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including numerous people who violently attacked police officers. “The President’s made his decision. I don’t second guess those,” Johnson said in a press conference on Wednesday. “It’s kind of my ethos, my worldview, we believe in…

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A growing chorus of Republican lawmakers is speaking out against President Trump granting sweeping pardons to Capitol rioters.

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The prosecution of some protesters who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was obsessive and political. Some pardons of nonviolent offenders were justified and, indeed, were needed to undo the damage their hounding has done to the First Amendment.  However, President Donald Trump went much too far in issuing a blanket pardon to... The post Trump’s blanket Jan. 6 pardons undermine the rule of law appeared first on Daily Truth Report • DailyTruth…

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Two major organizations that represent police officers issued a rare stinging rebuke to former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump over their recent pardons.Upon taking office, Trump issued pardons to about 1,500 people in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including many accused of attack...

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A handful of Republican senators pushed back against President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon roughly 1,500 Capitol riot defendants.

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Republican senators are mostly quiet on Trump’s sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 rioters

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