— comic thing is, possibly sad that he didn't pardon himself. And if you look at it, it was all about him. The money went to him," said the president during an interview on Fox News with publicist Sean Hannit, his friend and informal advisor. Trump thus referred to charges against his predecessor in connection with abroad contacts and interests led by members of his family. Trump expressed surprise that Biden had preventively pardoned his household members, but not himself.
When asked if he would order the national prosecutor to analyse Biden, Trump stated he did not know. Republicans in legislature investigated Biden and his household for almost 4 years as part of the impeachment procedure, but could not find evidence incriminating Trump's predecessor.
In another passage of Trump's conversation, he stated that during his first word he could "have pulled off the number" of Hillary Clinton, but he did not. erstwhile asked if he regretted it and whether he intended to launch an investigation against his another opponents, the president stated that he had "passed through hell" under criminal investigation and that "it is truly hard to say that they should not go through it either."
Donald Trump defends his decision to pardon the participants of the Capitol assault
At the same time, Trump defended his pardoning on the first day of the presidency of more than a 1000 participants in the Capitol assault, including, contrary to his and vice president JD Vance's announcements, besides guilty of attacking police officers. The president explained that analyzing all cases would be tedious, so he pardoned everyone. He added that these people were active in “very insignificant incidents” and that they had served long sentences and were “treated as the worst criminals in history”. According to Trump, the vast majority of the convicts “had quite a few patriotism in themselves”.
Among the pardoned by Trump were Enrique Tarrio and Steward Rhodes, leaders of utmost right-wing fighters, arrogant Boys and Oath Keepers.Who were sentenced to 22 and 18 years in prison for organizing a revolt. Rhodes met in the Capitol on Wednesday with a number of Republican politicians. Outside Rhodes, Daniel Rodriguez, sentenced to 12 years, besides escaped from prison and attacked a Capitol Police officer with a taser.
Trump's actions criticized police unions and Capitol police on Tuesday, while Rodriguez's officer Michael Fanone stated that he had been "successed by his country." However, according to CNN Trump is considering accepting any of the participants in the White home riots.
