Exclusive: Jan. 6 defendant Colt McAbee on presidential pardon: ‘Best day of my life other than my wedding’
When Ronald Colton McAbee walked out the front door of a federal prison in Rochester, Minnesota, Monday night, he saw two silhouetted figures walking toward him. It was dark. The Minnesota winter brought ice to the prison grounds. “Is that them?” asked Chad Orm, the prison's administrative assistant. Maccabee peered again. “I think so,” he […]
Speaker Johnson won’t ‘second guess’ Trump pardons of violent Jan. 6 rioters
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) defended President Trump's sweeping pardons for those who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, including numerous people who violently attacked police officers. “The president has made the decisions. I'm not going to second-guess them,” Johnson said at a press conference Wednesday. “This is kind of my ethos, my worldview, […]
Fox News Highlights – Jan. 6, 2025
Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld bring Fox News viewers their fresh takes on the top news of the … source
Pro-Trump police union blasts president’s Jan. 6 pardons
The nation's largest police organization, which supported Donald Trump in the past three elections, condemned the president's decision to pardon 1,500 rioters on January 6, some of whom were accused of assaulting law enforcement officers. was convicted of. “Crimes against law enforcement are not just attacks on individuals or public safety, they are attacks on […]
Rep. Eric Swalwell nailed with backlash after peddling fake news about Jan. 6 rioting
California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell tried to spread falsehoods about the January 6 Capitol riot, but quickly faced backlash from critics on social media. Swalwell was seeking to criticize a sweeping order by newly sworn-in President Donald Trump to pardon approximately 1,500 defendants involved in the 2021 riots. The other 14 cases were given reduced […]
Jan. 6 journalist Steve Baker fights back tears while thanking Trump for ‘ending this nightmare’
President Donald Trump on Monday fulfilled a major campaign promise, granting “full, complete, unconditional” pardons to most of the January 6 defendants, whom he called political “hostages.” He handed down sentences to more than a dozen Oath Keepers, citing the need for further investigation into their cases, and suggested they too might eventually receive full […]
Trump pardons 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, commutes the sentences of 14
January 20, 2025 marks the release of virtually all people born on January 6th, for whom President Donald J. Trump granted a “full and unconditional” pardon for their January 6th crimes. It is day. This was one of the president's major campaign promises and was the beginning of what he and many others have called […]
Two Jan. 6 prisoners, Andrew and Matthew Valentin, released from DC jail after Trump’s Day 1 pardon
Two brothers convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack were the first to be released late Monday after President Trump granted a first-day pardon to hundreds of participants. It became a mob. Andrew and Matthew Ballentine, from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, were released from the Central Detention Center in Washington, D.C., just before midnight, […]
Schiff calls Trump's' Jan. 6 pardons a 'grotesque display' of power
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) harshly criticized President Trump for granting sweeping pardons to nearly all defendants charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Schiff, a former member of the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack, called the move a “grotesque display” of power in an interview on MSNBC's “Inside […]
Michael Fanone calls Trump's Jan. 6 pardon a betrayal
Michael Fanone, a former District of Columbia police officer who was attacked by a mob at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, said he feels betrayed by President Trump's pardon for the rioters. “I was betrayed by my country and I was betrayed by those who supported Donald Trump, whether I voted for him because […]