President Donald Trump issued a sweeping series of pardons for defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Donald Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on Monday night at the Oval Office, after promising at his inaugural parade to sign an executive order on the matter.

Prisoners convicted of participating in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are awaiting their release from prison following President Donald Trump's pardon of around 1,500 rioters on Monday. A mob of angry Trump supporters,