Washington – Democratic and Independent US senators introduced a resolution on Monday to condemn the grace of President Donald Trump for the rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, injured numerous law enforcement officers and attempted to hide the presidential election 2020 To certify results.
The chairman of the Senate Minister, Chuck Schumer from New York, together with Sens. Patty Murray from Washington, Chris Murphy from Connecticut and Andy Kim from New Jersey lead all democrats and independent senators who have signed this resolution That “pardons for people who were found guilty were found to be guilty for Capitol police officers”.
A first press release did not include the democratic Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania as a co-sponsor, but Report He showed himself on social media. Fetterman’s office did not confirm immediately.
Murray will obtain unanimous approval on the ground to pass the resolution. Only a senator has to object to prevent it from being accepted.
In a statement on Monday, Murray said that she refuses to “allow President Trump, what happened on January 6th – armed uprising that Trump himself was displayed.”
The condemnation of the pardons and commutations for those who have caused cracked ribs, shredded spinal discs and other injuries should be “the simplest thing in the world,” said Murray.
“I hope and expect and expect that my Republican colleagues enable this very simple resolution as support for the officers who risk their lives to protect the senators,” said Murray.
Republicans quietly at 6 January
States newsroom asked 22 Republican senators How they felt on the day after signing the order about the pardon and commutations. Apart from some exceptions, most of them either refused to answer, they hadn’t seen Trump’s top -class order or only spoken Forgives Exhibited by former President Joe Biden in the hours before leaving the office.
GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump allied, told NBC News’ “Make the press with Kristen Welker” on Sunday that the accusation of the President of January 6th was “a mistake because it indicates that this is a good thing.”
Trump diverted the prison terms of 14 of the ring loaders of the attack and members of the paramilitary groups, the Swiss federal and proud boys. The President granted everyone else who was charged with crime after the attack.
Among the approximately 1,572 defendants, 608 were accused of being attacked, resisting or hindered, including 174, using a fatal or unsafe weapon or causing earnest physical injuries. Of those who were charged, owed in 172 to have attacked the police – 69 of them who guilty had known to have attacked the officials with a kind of weapon.
The investigators found that the rioters brought and improvised numerous types of weapons, including firearms, chemical sprays, taser, knives, flag masts and broken furniture.
Violent criminals
Murray, Schumer, Murphy and Kim have highlighted several specific cases of violent criminals, which were pardoned by Trump. Here are some:
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Christopher QuaglinFrom North Brunswick, New Jersey, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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Tyler Bradley DykesFrom Bluffton, South Carolina, was sentenced to almost five years in prison because he had stolen a police picture and hindered and attacked in several places in the Capitol.
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Robert Sanford Jr.From Chester, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to just over four years in prison because he had met three officers with a fire extinguisher with a fire extinguisher.
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Robert Scott PalmerFrom Largo, Florida, was sentenced to a little more than five years in prison because he thrown a woodenbage on the officers and sprayed the entire content of a fire extinguisher before he threw it to beat her.
Bids, on January 20, were satisfied with all members of the Congress Committee who examined the attack and four police officers who testified before the committee. Trump is only recorded in December and says that the committee members “should go to prison. “”
Last updated 2:40 p.m., January 27, 2025
