U.S. President Donald Trump has explained his decision to pardon offenders involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building in Washington.

Donald Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago began to leave prison on Tuesday after the newly installed president issued a sweeping pardon, signaling he intends to make aggressive use of his executive power.

Nearly everyone involved in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, received clemency from President Donald Trump on Monday in one of his earliest acts back in office. The new president cast his long-expected executive action as an act to heal a nation fractured over the 2020 election that Trump lost but again attributed Monday to a “rigged” outcome.

By Nathan Layne, Julio-Cesar Chavez, Andrew Goudsward and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans did not want Donald Trump to pardon all of the people convicted for their roles in the Jan.

By Sarah N. Lynch, Nathan Layne and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned nearly everyone criminally charged with participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.