Donald Trump shared his thoughts about Jan 6 cases on a recent tv-show saying hes ready to move fast with pardons right after becoming president (which happens in about a month-and-a-half)
The president-elect told NBC that while he plans to act quick there might be some limits: those who acted too wild during the capitol events could be left out. However he didnt close the door on helping people who already said they were guilty
Iʼm going to look at everything; weʼre going to look at individual cases
The numbers behind this case are huge — over fifteen-hundred people got charges and more than twelve-hundred already got convicted or said theyʼre guilty. Many sit in jail with time-spans from a couple days to twenty-two years
Legal pros have different ideas about this whole thing. Some say its better to pardon everyone at once while others think each case needs its own look. John Pierce who helped many Jan 6 people in court thinks checking cases one-by-one would make lots of folks un-happy
The talk about pardons got more steam after Hunter Bidens recent pardon. Trump described current jail conditions as really-bad and called the system nasty: saying these people are stuck in “a filthy disgusting place that shouldnt even be open“
Some lawyers like Norm Pattis who works with Proud Boys ex-leaders think Trump needs to take some blame — he pushed the stolen-election idea (which had no proof) and made people think they had to do something big