U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to issue sweeping pardons for defendants charged in the Jan. 6 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, ABC News reported on Monday, citing unidentified sources.

The action laid waste to the Justice Department’s four-year drive to punish the first disruption of the transfer of power in American history.

U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to issue sweeping pardons to defendants charged in the Jan. 6 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and intends to cut short sentences for people who attacked police,

President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 people Monday charged in the Capitol attack Jan. 6, 2021, fulfilling a campaign pledge critics said would "endorse attacks on democracy." That figure would represent almost all of the nearly 1,

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By Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned about 1,500 people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a sweeping gesture of support to the people who assaulted police as they tried to prevent lawmakers from certifying his 2020 election defeat.