Trump Says He’ll Aim to Pardon Jan. 6 Defendants on ‘First Day’

President-elect Donald Trump said he would use his powers on his “first day” in the White House to grant pardons to rioters involved in the attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“I’m going to be acting very quickly,” Trump said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press recorded on Friday, his first network TV interview since his election victory. “I’m going to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases.”

Trump’s comments follow President Joe Biden’s decision to offer a pardon to his son Hunter Biden, a move that reversed his stance ...