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White House Chief of Staff from 2020 to 2021
President Trump’s first term featured widespread refusal to comply with congressional information requests; reporting and legal summaries say his administration resisted or ignored subpoenas in “over ...
Donald J. Trump’s second-term clemency record includes at least one mass pardon on Jan. 20, 2025 that covered “nearly 1,600” people tied to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach, and by November 2025 report...
Available public accounts say rioters at the Capitol chanted “Hang Mike Pence” and that some witnesses told investigators President Trump reacted in ways that supported or did not oppose those chants ...
Donald Trump’s use of the presidential pardon has been described as both unusually expansive in raw counts by some analyses and unusually targeted toward political allies and January 6-related actors ...
During his first term, President Trump and his administration resisted or ignored multiple congressional and judicial subpoenas related chiefly to financial records, tax returns, and January 6 investi...
Multiple contemporary news accounts and eyewitness reporting establish that supporters of then-President Trump at the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” erected a makeshift gal...
Donald Trump’s most controversial pardons clustered around three themes: clemency for January 6 defendants and allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election; pardons for political allies, donors, an...
Donald Trump’s second-term use of clemency has been large and idiosyncratic: on January 20, 2025 he issued a sweeping mass action that pardoned roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with the Janu...
Reporting shows Virginia “Ginni” Thomas attended the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol attack, exchanged post‑election messages with Trump White House officials urging challenges to the 202...
President Donald J. Trump’s clemency actions are reported with widely different totals: an official Office of the Pardon Attorney listing shows in a narrow 2025 window, while multiple news and oversig...
Several former Trump administration officials and associates have faced criminal charges in years around and after the first Trump presidency — notable examples from the prior administration include M...
Donald Trump has used clemency far more aggressively in his second term than is typical: reporting and compiled tallies show mass pardons that include roughly 1,500 Jan.‑6 defendants on his first day ...
Multiple civil and criminal legal fights flowed from subpoenas served to Trump White House officials: senior aides sued to block congressional demands for testimony or records (notably Mark Meadows), ...
The available materials show that Donald Trump and 18 others were indicted in Georgia in August 2023 on allegations that they participated in a coordinated scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential res...
Maryanne Trump Barry’s most widely reported direct quotations about Donald Trump come from secret audio recordings her niece published; they include calls that he “has no principles,” is “cruel,” is a...
Donald Trump’s most high-profile clemency actions in 2025 include blanket pardons and mass grants for January 6 defendants (nearly 1,600 people), pardons of top allies who tried to overturn the 2020 e...
Video, journalists and fact-checkers agree that crowds at and around the U.S. Capitol chanted “Hang Mike Pence” on January 6, 2021, and a makeshift gallows and noose were visible outside the Capitol ....
President Trump’s second-term clemency spree has included a mass January 20, 2025, pardon for people prosecuted over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack (about 1,500 by White House count) and later targeted par...
Available official records and contemporaneous White House materials show that in his first term (2017–2021) Donald Trump issued 73 pardons and 70 commutations as announced on January 20, 2021 , and J...
Federal investigators and the House January 6 Select Committee used broad subpoenas to follow money tied to the Capitol attack—targeting rally organizers, social media platforms, militia groups, and i...