Vance: People responsible for violence in Capitol riot should not be pardoned
Vice President-elect JD Vance says people responsible for the violence during the Capitol riot “obviously” should not be pardoned, as President-elect Donald Trump is promising to use his clemency power on behalf of many of those who tried on January 6 2021 to overturn the results of the election that Mr Trump lost.
Mr Vance insisted in an interview on Fox News Sunday that the pardon question is “very simple”, saying those who “protested peacefully” should be pardoned and “if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned”.
