PARDON PROMISE: Trump Says He Will Free 'Wrongfully Imprisoned' January 6 'Hostages'

According to a recent post on TRUTH Social, Donald Trump is promising to free people imprisoned due to their participation in the Jan. 6 protests at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump says they are “wrongfully imprisoned.”

“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!” Trump said in a post on his TRUTH Social account Monday night.

From NEWSMAX:

His Truth Social post came after the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Monday released an 81-page reportpointing out inconsistencies and the lack of corroboration for the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

Trump has often demanded that President Joe Biden release the defendants from Jan. 6, but his Truth Social post appears to be the first time he’s said that he plans to let them go as one of his day one priorities, reported NBC News.

The former president has also referred before to the defendants who have been jailed as “hostages,” which the White House has said is “grotesque.”

According to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., almost 500 people have been sentenced to prison or jail after being convicted over their role in the Jan. 6 incidents. Prosecutors, meanwhile, have secured more than 950 convictions in connection with Jan. 6, and 1,350 people have been charged.

More over at NEWSMAX:

Former President Donald Trump is promising that one of his first acts if elected president will be to free the people who were "wrongfully imprisoned" after being convicted of crimes in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 protests at the U.S. Capitol. More: https://t.co/tReNUABCXg pic.twitter.com/iEdM7JLfiH

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