Katherine Doyle | NBC News
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended the pardons and commutations of roughly 1,500 defendants charged in crimes connected to the Jan. 6 attack, including some convicted of assaulting police officers.
Trump, in one of the first presidential acts of his second term, commuted the sentences of 14 prisoners and pardoned all others convicted of offenses related to the 2021 riot at the Capitol. He also directed the attorney general to dismiss all indictments pending before judges related to what became the largest federal investigation ever...
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