Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued full commutations and pardons to those indicted and/or sentenced in relation to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. His order explicitly granted clemency for nine members of the Oath Keepers and five members of the Proud Boys, two well-known violent extremist groups. His Department of Justice has also fired officials who worked on the criminal cases against Donald Trump and launched investigations into other “political opponents,” as part of Trump’s new Executive Order “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” This, is a move every dictator makes to capture the power of the law.
