Senate Republicans were mostly evasive when asked about President Donald Trump’s pardon of both violent and non-violent offenders who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 four years ago.
On the first day of his second term in office, Trump, who had repeatedly said that he would pardon people who committed crimes on January 6, and who called them hostages while onstage with hostages recently freed by Hamas as part of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, issued pardons for 1,500 people criminally charged with the violent assault on the US Capitol in attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
