
Jan 6th Rioters From Michigan Pardoned By President Trump
As many of us expected, President Donald Trump wasted no time making things happen once he was inaugurated into his role as the president of the United States. After being sworn into office he quickly signed over 100 executive orders that were set to go into effect immediately, setting the stage for states like Michigan to follow order or go against it.

There are millions of Americans across the country that aren't happy about the change in the country's leader and others are ecstatic. Although some of us may feel differently than others, one thing I can say is that none of us can forget the events that took place on Jan 6th, 2021.
If you happen to have been completely oblivious of what was happening around this time, there were many people who were upset that Joe Biden had won the election over President Trump and believed that the results were tampered with. They decided to storm the Capitol building in Washington D.C to try and stop the verification of the results.
This would lead to complete chaos across the country as people couldn't believe what was going on while also trying to find out who these people were. It didn't take long to find out that people from all over the country had traveled to participate and the fallout began shortly after.
Many of these people were fired from their jobs and had their lives turned upside down and some of them were arrested. President Trump was always in their corner and on January 20th, 2025, he held up a black folder that held an executive order inside. After signing this order, he officially pardoned over 1,500 of his supporters from their actions that day.
Of the 1,500 people who breached the Capitol and were federally charged include at least 26 suspects arrested in or from Michigan, of whom 20 received sentences ranging from home confinement to five years in prison, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office data and other media reports.
The order specifically named 14 convicted rioters whose sentences are to be commuted while granting “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses” and ordered the dismissal of pending indictments. Anyone currently in custody of the Bureau of Prisons was to be released immediately.
A pardon does not reverse the conviction but instead reduces the sentence and eliminates impact on rights like employment, voting, jury duty, and others.
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