Of all Donald Trump’s supporters in the November 5 elections, at least one group had an extra reason to celebrate the Republican’s victory: the more than 1,500 protesters who were accused of participating in some way in the November 6 riot. January 2021, which culminated in the invasion of the Capitol, Washington.
Of this group, 645 were sentenced to prison and 143 are under house arrest. And at least 10 of those individuals were convicted by juries of seditious conspiracy — conspiracy to use force to oppose the authority of the U.S. government — as they attempted to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump.
The hope of many of them lies in promises that candidate Trump made during the campaign.
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“The moment we win, we will quickly review the cases of all political prisoners wrongfully victimized by the Harris regime [sua oponente democrata, Kamala Harris]and I will sign your pardons on day one,” Trump said at a rally in Wisconsin in September.
In another event organized by CNNhe was a little more careful with his promises. “I’m inclined to forgive a lot of them,” he said. “I can’t say for every one of them, because some of them probably got out of control.”
The president-elect even minimized the violence of January 6, recently saying that it was “a day of love”.
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“Every January 6th defendant is hoping and eager for some relief from President Trump,” he told the website The Hill Carmen Hernandez, defense attorney who represented several defendants in the riot, including in cases of conspiracy committed by extremists from the right-wing groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. “I will ask for pardons and commutations,” he said.
Hours after Trump was announced elected, defendant Christopher Carnell asked a federal judge to postpone a hearing, understanding that a Trump pardon was imminent. Carnell was 18 years old when he participated in the riot and was convicted of disorderly conduct in a restricted building.
His lawyer told a federal judge that Trump’s campaign promises of clemency would likely affect her client. “Mr. Carnell is now awaiting further information from the Office of the President-elect regarding the timing and expected scope of clemency actions relevant to his case,” attorney Marina Medvin wrote.
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Also according to the website, another protester, Jaimee Avery, asked a judge to postpone her sentence after pleading guilty to two charges of picketing the Capitol. Prosecutors are seeking a one-month prison sentence.
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