All GOP 2024 candidates promise Jan. 6 pardons

Published January 15, 2024 1:14pm ET



All of the top Republican presidential candidates are pledging to grant pardons to hundreds of suspects rounded up and jailed in the Justice Department’s prosecution of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

While President Joe Biden has followed a lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key approach to the suspects, all five of the leading GOP candidates plan to pardon those facing nonviolent charges, one as early as “day one” of his presidency.

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