Trump promised to pardon most people in prison for January 6 related offenses, and he has reiterated that he intends to do that within the first hour of his being in office.

According to NBC:

President-elect Donald Trump said he is looking to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as soon as his first day in office, saying those incarcerated are “living in hell.”

On his first day in office, Trump said, he will bring legal relief to the Jan. 6 rioters who he said have been put through a “very nasty system.”

“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump said, saying later about their imprisonment, “They’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”

He won’t pardon the ones he believes deserve to be in prison but for the vast majority, he indicated he would.

People were sentenced to years in federal prison for something like this and it’s unclear what crime this is.

And so much of this persecution was fueled by lies like this:

The claims were so bad that politicians continue to claim that day was worse than 9/11, which is nothing more than a deranged lie.

Anyone who claims that Jan. 6 was an insurrection is trying to deceive the masses or is objectively naive, there is no in-between. And while there were several bad actors that day, the vast majority did not deserve the persecution they received. And for that, Trump will hold to his promise and pardon those that should not be in there.