During Wednesday night’s exclusive Hannity interview from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump defended his decision to pardon nearly all of the roughly 1,500 defendants charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.
“Most of the people were absolutely innocent, okay? But forgetting all about that, these people have served horribly, a long time,” Trump said, adding that “it would be very, very cumbersome to go” through the roughly 1,500 individuals charged.
“And the other thing is this,” Trump continued. “Some of those people with the police, true, but they were very minor incidents, okay? You know that they get built up by that couple of fake guys that are on CNN all the time. They were very minor incidents. And it was time.”
Watch the clip above.