Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s pardons for over 1,000 people charged with crimes related to the 2021 Capitol riot are “un-American.”
Trump on Monday issued pardons for about 1,500 people who were convicted or charged of crimes connected to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, “There is no other way to describe President Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 offenders than un-American. Let’s be clear. President Trump didn’t just pardon protesters. He pardoned some people convicted of assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.”
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