Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 rioters on ‘day one’

President-elect says he will ‘act quickly’, claiming convicted Capitol rioters had been put through a ‘very nasty system’

In his first sit-down television news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021.

He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker – the latter of which he acknowledged could cause Americans to pay more after riding voters’ complaints about higher prices back to the White House at the expense of Vice-President Kamala Harris.

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