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Republican senators are mostly quiet on Trump’s sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 rioters [Video]

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Post author By Curator
Post date January 22, 2025

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., hugs Miriam Adelson before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Pool)

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By Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican senators say they do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people who assaulted police officers, broke into the building or committed other crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol four years ago.

But they aren’t pushing back on the decision.

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