
Trump's pardon pledge is more theatrics than substance, lawyers for US Capitol rioters say
CNN
"The comments by Trump are, for J6 Defendants, more than a day late and a dollar short," said the attorney representing the so-called "QAnon Shaman."
Even defendants who are holding out hope for clemency are clinging to a false hope. Most of their cases are likely to be resolved in court long before the 2024 presidential election. This week alone, following Trump's comments, seven people have cut guilty plea deals.
"What we have learned from the year that has gone by, is that my clients, apart from their families and their lawyers who are representing them, is that no help is coming," Joe McBride, a lawyer representing five riot defendants, including ones in jail, told CNN.
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