Judges postpone Jan. 6 trials as Trump presidency approaches
Back on Nov. 14, 2024, two different federal judges agreed to postpone criminal trials for defendants who were accused of breaching the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The reason?
Donald Trump's status as the president-elect has potentially rendered the proceedings unnecessary.
The delay was an early sign of which way one of the most controversial topics in America would likely ultimately go.
On Jan. 7, of this year, Donald Trump confirmed that the judges' suspicions were correct in that his upcoming presidency could well make a lot of the charges against J6 demonstrators completely moot.
Trump verified the idea that he's planning to issue "major pardons" for many Jan. 6 defendants.
"People that didn't even walk into the building are in jail right now. So we'll be looking at the whole thing but I'll be making major pardons, yes," Trump said during a recent press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
Perhaps the judges back in November realized just how much Trump was going to be willing to do for the protestors.
Trump had previously called Jan. 6 rioters “warriors” and said at a rally in June that “there has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages.” In a December interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," the president-elect said he'd be looking at individual Jan. 6 cases for pardons and would act "very quickly," possibly as soon as Inauguration Day.