Former President Donald Trump teased a 2024 presidential candidacy and said he would consider pardoning those who were charged in connection with the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol if he wins the White House again.
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday teased a 2024 presidential candidacy and said he would consider pardoning those who were charged in connection with the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol if he wins the White House again.
Trump's comments came during a campaign-style rally in Texas in which he complained about the criminal prosecutions that Capitol rioters have faced as a result of their attempt to interrupt the counting of Electoral College votes after he lost the 2020 election. He said the rioters are being treated"so unfairly." 'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature.then {CNN.VideoPlayer.
See Stelter's big takeaway after Trump's rally 02:25"If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly," Trump said."And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.
Civil war expert reacts to Trump supporter. See her warning for the US 03:22"It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace," Trump said of the prosecutions and prison sentences rioters have faced.Read MoreThe Department of Justice has charged more than 700 in connection with the attack on the Capitol.Trump raised the prospect of pardons after a speech repeating his lies about widespread voter fraud causing his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020.
One year later, mentioning January 6 at a Trump event doesn't go well 04:44But he said, in 2024,"We are going to take back the White House." Trump also used the speech to rail against New York prosecutors' investigations into his business empire, calling for"the biggest protests we have ever had" if the prosecutors"do anything wrong or illegal.
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