He will not have waited long before carrying out his promise: the new American president, Donald Trump, took advantage of his return to the oval office of the White House to sign decrees graciating in turn of the people condemned by The administration of the Democrat Joe Biden. These graces demonstrate, once again, Donald Trump’s distrust of the American judicial system, as pointed out in a press release Nancy Pelosi, former Democratic president of the House of Representatives, who does not hesitate to speak of insult to the judicial system.
The Capitol attackers
Barely invested, on Monday, January 20, Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 attackers From the Capitole assault, the headquarters of the US Congress ransacked on January 6, 2021 to protest against the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential election. Including people recognized as guilty of aggression against police officers, which did not fail to cause anger of the latter. Among the GRACEED rioters is in particular ENRIQUE Tarrio, the former chief of the Proud Boys, sentenced in September 2023 to 22 years in prison, the heaviest sentence pronounced for the assault.
Released on Monday evening, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far -right militia Oath Keepers, saw him his sentence being commissioned during the already purged prison period. He had been sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment – one of the heaviest sanctions pronounced against the attackers of the Capitol. Come to wait for the release of his “brothers” to a prison, this far-right chief known for his black cache said that the decision of President Donald Trump “validates” in his action, and assured that he had “none “Regret on the Capitol assault.
According to The American agency APthese graces are the culmination of a campaign of several years led by Donald Trump to rewrite the history of the attack on January 6, which made more than 100 injured among the police. The new president also ordered the Attorney General to request the rejection of around 450 cases pending before the judges.
Anti-abortion activists
24 hours after relieving the Capitol’s attackers, Donald Trump set out to sign on Thursday before the press, a decree gracing 23 people prosecuted by the previous government for participating in demonstrations against abortion. The concerned had also been found guilty of having blocked the entries of the abortion clinics in 2020, recalls the daily The New York Times. These people “should not have been prosecuted,” said the Republican president, adding: “It is a great honor to sign this.”
Donald Trump thus pardoned Lauren Handy, sponsor of this invasion. She had been sentenced to almost five years in prison for having directed the blockade by ordering the demonstrators to bond between them with padlocks and channels to block the doors of the clinic, specifies AP. Police had found five fetuses at Lauren Handy’s home after his indictment. Its nine co -accused have also been pardoned. The announcement of this grace decree occurs on the eve of a large anti-abortion demonstration in Washington, called “march for life”. The 78-year-old billionaire must, according to the press, participate by videoconference, while vice-president JD Vance is expected on the spot.
The creator of an illegal drug sales site
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had pardoned the creator of the illegal site “Silk Road”, which served as an online platform for the sale of millions of dollars of drugs worldwide. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced in 2015 to life prison for drug trafficking and illegal commercial operations. Its site, created in January 2011, was used to sell many illegal goods on the “Darkweb”, including 200 million dollars of drugs, before being closed by the American federal police (FBI) in October 2013. 40 years old was also accused of having commanded five murders.
“I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let him know that in her honor and that of the libertarian movement, who supported me so ardently, I have the pleasure of signing total and unconditional grace for her son “Said the new American president on Truth Social. Donald Trump had promised to release him during a speech in May before the Convention of the Libertarian Party, a marginal movement which advocates individual freedoms and a minimum role of the government. The case of Ross Ulbricht has become famous in libertarian circles, which denounced his conviction as an attack on the principles of the free market.
Two police officers sentenced to murder and concealment
According to the American media, whose channel CnnPresident Donald Trump also granted “total and unconditional grace” to the police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and to officer Terence Sutton for their role in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, African-American.
The prosecutors argued that in October 2020, these police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington spotted Karon Hylton-Brown leading a motorcycle without a helmet and continued it at “unreasonable speeds” until it is Finally struck and killed by an unknown motorist, recalls the American channel. While Hylton-Brown was dying dying in the street, the officers hid the incident, according to the investigators, by turning off their body cameras, falsifying the scene and misleading their commanders on the nature of the incident.
Donald Trump had made these potential graces several times in recent days, notably Tuesday at a press conference unrelated to the case at the White House, when his decision was asked to pardon the rioters From the American Capitol of January 6, 2021 sent the message that it was acceptable to attack the police. “No, it’s the opposite. In fact, I will pardon two Washington DC police officers, I just approved,” he said. The DC police union welcomed Trump’s decision, saying in a statement that Terence Sutton had been “unfairly accused by corrupt prosecutors for doing his job”. For her part, Karon Hylton-Brown’s mother Karen Hylton said he sent a letter to the White House addressed to the president on Tuesday, asking him not to pardon the two police officers. She also wrote in this letter, of which she shared a copy with NBC Newsthat she thought that racism had caused her son’s death, and asked Donald Trump to re -examine the case before rendering a judgment.