Now, before I tell you who these people are that Donald Trump has been giving a pardon to, first let's talk about Donald Trump's first day in office, because that was the day when he Donald Trump gave 1550 pardons and grants of clemency to the insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol. hundreds of which beat police officers and gouged them and bear sprayed them. That was among the most egregious demonstrations of his abuse of the pardon power. (00:10–00:33)
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Asserts that Donald Trump pardoned 1550 insurrectionists from the Capitol attack.
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