The Justice Department is considering indicting up to 200 more people for their alleged involvement in the incident. January 6, 2021, Riot at the U.S. Capitol, the report says.
New figures released on Monday, four years after the incident, include 60 suspects of assaulting or obstructing police officers. According to Politico.
President-elect Trump is scheduled to be sworn in as president-elect in just two weeks. In December, President Trump told NBC he wanted to pardon the Jan. 6 riot, the first day of his administration, and said members of Congress' Jan. 6 Committee were in jail.
“We're going to look at everything. We're going to look at each individual case,” Trump said at the time. “But I intend to act quickly.”
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A scene from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
About 1,600 people have faced federal charges in connection with the Capitol breach, including more than 600 on charges of assaulting or resisting police, Politico reported. are.
Nearly 200 of the defendants were charged with possessing a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds and 153 were charged with destroying government property, but the new numbers released Monday show that the Justice Department Politico added that this is the first estimate of the number of cases that have not yet been prosecuted.
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People are seen climbing the west wall of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
The news agency also reported that about 1,100 defendants had been convicted and sentenced on January 6, but 300 of the cases that had already been prosecuted had not yet entered the trial stage.
President Biden was asked by reporters on Sunday whether he still believed President Trump was a threat to democracy.
Protesters and Capitol Police fight over barricades as they breach the Capitol grounds in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We have to get back to establishing basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House. “I think his actions were a real threat to democracy. I hope we can move beyond that.”
FOX News' Sarah Rumpf-Witten and Hannah Panrec contributed to this report.
