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EPISODE · Jan 21, 2025 · 16 MIN

Why Jan. 6 Pardons Could Stoke More Political Violence

from In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons

On President Donald Trump’s first day back in office, he granted clemency to all rioters, violent and non-violent, involved with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Reset discusses who was pardoned, what’s next and what this action means for the future of political violence and civil society in the U.S. with Robert Pape, director of The Chicago Project on Security & Threats at the University of Chicago and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ investigative reporter on government and politics. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

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On President Donald Trump’s first day back in office, he granted clemency to all rioters, violent and non-violent, involved with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Reset discusses who was pardoned, what’s next and what this action means...

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