January 2025 The Mass January 6 Clemency

On his first day back in office, the President pardoned roughly 1,500 people convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack — the largest federal criminal investigation in U.S. history — and ordered all pending indictments dismissed. The pardons covered offenses ranging from misdemeanor trespass to assaulting police with weapons. The DOJ had recorded approximately 608 defendants charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, including roughly 174 charged with using a deadly weapon or causing serious bodily injury.