President Donald Trump quickly signed off on executive orders on Monday, his first day in the Oval Office. He also pardoned over 1,500 people charged with attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, 34 of them from South Carolina.

Even some Republican lawmakers appeared unhappy aboutTrump's pardon or commutation of 1,600 Capitol riot defendants.

President Donald Trump said Monday evening he had pardoned virtually all of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendants and commuted the sentences of the remaining 14 — a broad move that gives some form of clemency to all those charged or convicted in the riot.

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned nearly everyone criminally charged with participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, in a show of solidarity with supporters who stormed the seat of American power in his name.

Within a few hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed pardons for about 1,500 people involved in the U.S. Capitol riot four years ago on January

Two men from New England had very different reactions to their names being cleared for their roles in the Capitol riot.

Pamela Hemphill said she was “in a cult” and got out, and called pardons a slap in the face of police officers who were attacked.

At least 11 Arizonans were convicted in connection with the riot. They ranged from Phoenix resident Jake Angeli, the “QAnon shaman” who became the worldwide face of the riot to a pair of Tucson siblings mostly forgotten among the more than 1,500 cases stemming from the violence.

President Donald Trump grants pardons and commutations to over 1,500 individuals involved in the Capitol riot, including several from Arkansas.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president's pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it could lead to more violence.