With the general elections just a few months away, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to share his first order of action when re-elected.
The Republican nominee wrote on Monday that one of his first acts was to liberate wrongfully imprisoned J6 demonstrators.
“My first acts as your next president will be to close the border, drill, baby, drill, and free the January 6 hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!” wrote Trump.
His post comes after the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight revealed inconsistencies in the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who claims that Trump was “irate” during the January 6, 2021 demonstration and grabbed the steering wheel from one of his security details.
Trump has long called for the release of the January 6 “hostages,” but it was the first time that he outright said that he would release the demonstrators as soon as he sat in office.
In 2022, Trump exclaimed during a rally that he plans to pardon those convicted of their participation in the January 6 protest, emphasizing that he will treat protesters “fairly.”
“If it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly,” he said at the time.
The Justice Department’s latest victim was a Maryland man, charged with felony and misdemeanor, which include offenses of civil disorder and assault, resisting, or impeding officers related to the January 6 events. The former president was also accused of election interference related to the events.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The former president also related his legal woes with the J6 defendants in his remarks on campaign activities.
“They’re policemen, they’re firemen, they’re accountants, they’re lawyers in some cases. They’re put in jail for extended periods [of time] for very long periods [of time]. They’re hostages.”
According to reports, at least 500 individuals were imprisoned for their alleged role in the J6 protest. Prosecutors, on the other hand, convicted 950 people in connection with January 6, and 1,350 are undergoing trials.
Early this month, a federal appeals court said that at least 100 January 6 protesters had their sentences improperly lengthened by the court.
With this, district court judges in Washington DC will be recalculating the verdict on more than 100 people illegally convicted of felony for their alleged role in the 2021 J6 protest.
The Justice Department argues that enhancement to the verdict of the J6 demonstrators should be applied, as the counting of electoral votes they alleged could considered a court proceeding.
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