Following President Donald Trump’s historic comeback, defendants who were persecuted in the Democrats’ politically motivated Jan. 6 cases are now hoping to soon receive pardons from the incoming 47th POTUS.
Defendants convicted over the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests are now preparing for the possibility that their nightmare will soon end.
Multiple Jan. 6 protesters have asked the courts to pause their cases as they await a potential reprieve from the president-elect, the Daily Caller reported.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump often defended the Jan. 6 participants as patriots who have been treated unfairly by the justice system.
Over 1,5000 people have been charged in the Biden-Harris Justice Department’s “investigations.”
More than 1,000 have already been sentenced.
Trump has floated pardons for some of those who entered the Capitol, many of whom were non-violent.
“I am inclined to pardon many of them,” Trump told a CNN town hall in 2023.
“I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”
Lawyers for Christopher Carnell, a non-violent offender, cited a hypothetical pardon in a request to delay a November 8 hearing.
The judge shot it down, however.
“Mr. Carnell, who was an 18-year-old nonviolent entrant into the Capitol on January 6, is expecting to be relieved of the criminal prosecution that he is currently facing when the new administration takes office,” his lawyers wrote.
Jan. 6 defendant Mitchell Bosch, while seeking a trial delay, argued he could face retaliation over Trump’s re-election from a jury in deep blue Washington D.C.
That request was also shut down.
Meanwhile, Trump has received a pardon from the voters.
The American people overwhelmingly chose to send Trump back to Washington with a resounding mandate despite his alleged role in starting an “insurrection” on January 6, 2021.
The judge in Trump’s “election interference” case pressed pause in the proceeding on Friday.
The case was paused after a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Smith is expected to drop his prosecutions against President-elect Trump.
The Biden-Harris Justice Department has dropped some charges against January 6 defendants.
It came after the Supreme Court rebuked the DOJ for stretching a federal obstruction statute to charge hundreds of Trump supporters.
Trump told the National Association of Black Journalists in July that he would “absolutely” pardon those who are innocent.
“They were convicted by a very tough system,” Trump noted.
In a statement to the Daily Caller, Trump’s campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said:
“President Trump will make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis.”
