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Jeffries: Trump's release of violent Jan. 6 felons 'undermines public safety'

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23.01.2025

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President Trump on Thursday for pardoning those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, warning that the liberation of hundreds of incarcerated felons endangers public safety.

“The release of violent felons who brutally beat police officers and women doesn't make America safer,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “It undermines public safety in community after community after community in the United States of America.”

Trump on Monday issued an executive order pardoning almost all of the more than 1,500 people prosecuted for their actions at the Capitol four years ago, when a mob of his supporters stormed the building in a failed........

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