No ‘process of national reconciliation’ can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified," Judge Beryl Howell wrote.

President Donald Trump defended the pardons he issued to January 6 participants in his first interview since returning to the presidency. "They were very minor incidents, and it was time," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview held at the Oval Office.

Following Trump's executive action, two people who pleaded guilty for their actions at the Capitol that day have spoken out against their pardons.