These people and others with Tennessee ties were initially convicted of crimes and sentenced to as long as 90 months in prison. Now, they've all been pardoned. In one of his first actions during his second term,

President Donald Trump dodged then rambled Tuesday when asked why he pardoned a violent Capitol rioter. (Watch the video below.) Trump granted clemency on Inauguration Day for about 1,500 convicted in the Jan.

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.