On Jan. 6 pardons, Republicans struggle to defend the indefensible
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Pressed on Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, many Republicans said they want to move on. But as Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Just hours after his second presidential inauguration, Donald Trump kept his worst campaign promise : The Republican, taking a needlessly maximalist approach, issued roughly 1,500 pardons and commuted the sentences of 14 Jan. 6 criminals, including violent felons who clashed with police officers. Pressed a day later for some kind of justification
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