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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Brian Osgood

Why does Donald Trump want to pardon the rioters from the January 6 attack?

Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump scale the west wall of the the US Capitol in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021 [File: Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo]

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, his proposals on issues such as immigration, taxes, and trade have sparked furious discussion.

But two weeks away from returning to one of the world’s most powerful political offices, Trump remains animated by past grievances, laying out a plan of attack against political rivals, critics and a loss in the 2020 election that he has never accepted.

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