Federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou, who jailed numerous Capitol rioters, issued a chilling claim in The New York Times that the “purpose” of the pardon by President Donald Trump was to unleash a loyalist militia “unaccountable to the government.

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,

Three federal judges on Wednesday strongly condemned President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons of supporters who stormed the US Capitol four years ago in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.