The Justice Department is considering charging up to 200 additional people for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report.
New figures released Monday on the fourth anniversary of the incident include 60 people suspected of assaulting or obstructing police officers, according to Politico.
President-elect Trump is expected to be sworn in as the nation’s next president in just two weeks. In December, Trump told NBC he wanted to pardon the Jan. 6 rioters on his first day in office and said members of the Jan. 6 Commission in Congress belonged in prison.
“I’m going to look at everything. We’ll look at individual cases,” Trump said at the time. “But I will act very quickly.”
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A scene from the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
So far, about 1,600 people have faced federal charges related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 600 who allegedly assaulted or resisted police, Politico reported.
Nearly 200 of the defendants were charged with carrying a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds and 153 were charged with destruction of government property — but the new numbers released Monday are the first time the Justice Department has estimated how many Cases have yet to be prosecuted, Politico added.
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People are seen scaling the west wall of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. (AP/José Luis Magana)
The outlet also reported that about 1,100 defendants as of Jan. 6 have been convicted and served their sentences, but 300 of the cases already charged have not yet entered the trial phase.
On Sunday, reporters asked President Biden if he still thinks Trump is a threat to democracy.
Protesters and U.S. Capitol Police fight over a barricade as the Capitol building grounds are breached in Washington on January 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We have to get back to establishing fundamental democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House. “I think what he did was a real threat to democracy. I hope we’re past that point.”
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
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