"It is shameful that the president has decided to abandon and betray police officers who have risked their lives to halt an effort to block the transfer of power and has done so 1 of his priorities," Pelosi wrote in a communication.
On Monday, after being sworn in as president of the United States, Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 people convicted of participating in the Capitol assault and shortened the sentences of six others. He called them hostages, whose life was destroyed.
When signing acts of grace in the Oval Office, Trump did not find whether pardoned persons were violent.
— They've been in prison a long time. These men have been destroyed. What they did to these people is outrageous. This has not happened in the past of our country, he said.
