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The Justice Department is considering charging up to 200 people suspected of involvement in the case simple. 6th 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, a report said.
New figures released on Monday on the fourth anniversary of the incident include 60 people suspected of assaulting or obstructing police, According to Politico.
President-elect Trump will be sworn in as the country’s next president in just two weeks. In December, Trump told NBC that he Want to pardon the January 6 rioters On his first day in office, he said members of Congress’ January 6 committee should be jailed.
“I’ll look at everything. We’ll look at it on a case-by-case basis,” Trump said at the time. “But I will act quickly.”
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Scenes from the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
So far, about 1,600 people have faced federal charges for breaching the U.S. Capitol, with more than 600 of them suspected of assaulting or resisting police, Politico reported.
Nearly 200 defendants have been charged with carrying dangerous weapons inside the Capitol and 153 defendants have been charged with damaging government property, but new data released Monday is the first Ministry of Justice Politico added that it has estimated how many cases have yet to be prosecuted.
People climb the west wall of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
The news outlet also reported that about 1,100 defendants had been convicted and sentenced on January 6, but 300 of the cases that had been prosecuted had not yet reached trial.
President Biden was asked by reporters on Sunday whether he still believed Trump was a threat to democracy.
Demonstrators battled U.S. Capitol Police for barricades as the Capitol grounds were breached in Washington on January 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We have to reestablish basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House. “I think what he’s doing is a real threat to democracy. I hope we can move beyond this.”
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Hannah Penrek contributed to this report.
