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The Economist
The Economist
23 Jan 2025


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United States | Politics and mercy

Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th

By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice

|Raleigh, North Carolina

“THIS IS A big one,” Donald Trump said as he signed a clemency order for nearly 1,600 January 6th rioters just hours after being sworn into office. By evening Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, who had served three years of a 22-year sentence in federal prison for choreographing the attack on the Capitol in 2021, was in a holding cell in Louisiana awaiting release. Back in Miami, Mr Tarrio says a full pardon was what he expected “from day one after the election”.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Liberation day”

Voters in North Carolina

An unfinished election may shape a swing state’s future

A Supreme Court race ended very close. Then the lawyers arrived.

Migrants from Mexico and Guatemala are apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers after crossing a section of border wall into the U.S.

Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown

His executive orders range from benign to belligerent


A child is silhouetted against a U.S. flag at a rally in support of immigration rights.

To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution

A change would also create huge practical problems


Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime

His dark website, the Silk Road, was to crime what Napster was to music

Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both made indefensible decisions

Following Trump’s pardons, the Proud Boys are back in the game

Enrique Tarrio tells The Economist he is still figuring out what is next for the group