<p>Vice President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a> has offered insight into the &#8220;simple&#8221; process by which President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> plans to conduct <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> pardons, suggesting that people who were convicted of non-violent crimes only will receive clemency.</p>
<p>With a little more than a week before Inauguration Day, Vance took aim at the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland during an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with anchor Shannon Bream.</p>
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<p>&#8220;January 6th <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardons</a>: President Trump says there&#8217;s a process. Where is the line drawn? And who will and wouldn&#8217;t be considered for a pardon?&#8221; Bream asked.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> lays out President-elect Trump’s pardon process for January 6th participants. Tune in tomorrow for the rest of Shannon&#39;s exclusive interview with Vice President-elect JD Vance. <a href="https://t.co/RvqXrL6rO3">pic.twitter.com/RvqXrL6rO3</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s very simple,&#8221; Vance replied. &#8220;Look, if you protested peacefully on January the 6th, and you&#8217;ve had Merrick Garland&#8217;s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn&#8217;t be pardoned.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also said: &#8220;And there&#8217;s a little bit of a gray area there. But we&#8217;re very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law. And there are a lot of people, we think in the wake of January the 6th, who were prosecuted unfairly. We need to rectify that.&#8221;</p>
<p>More than 1,500 people have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-still-aggressively-prosecuting-january-6-defendants-as-pardons-loom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prosecuted</a> in connection to the U.S. Capitol riot four years ago, according to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/47-months-jan-6-attack-us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the DOJ</a>. Many of the defendants pleaded guilty or were found guilty, and several hundred of them were sentenced to prison.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-attorney-behind-january-6-prosecutions-stepping-down-before-trumps-inauguration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: U.S. Attorney Behind January 6 Prosecutions Stepping Down Before Trump’s Inauguration</a></strong></p>
<p>The Associated Press <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-where-jan-6-trials-stand-on-the-fourth-anniversary-of-the-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> hundreds of defendants &#8220;who did not engage in destruction or violence were charged only with misdemeanor offenses for entering the Capitol illegally,&#8221; while others faced more serious charges related to violence or conspiracy.</p>
<p>Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-interview-meet-press-kristen-welker-election-president-rcna182857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News in December that his team was &#8220;looking at&#8221; the prospect of pardoning January 6 defendants on the first day of his second term.  &#8220;Those people have suffered long and hard,&#8221; Trump said. However, Trump also conceded &#8220;there may be some exceptions&#8221; when it comes to dolling out pardons.</p>
<p>Last week, a federal appeals court gave Garland <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/special-counsel-report-smith-trump/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">permission</a> to release <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-prosecutor-jack-smith-resigns-from-doj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-former</a> special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s report volume on his 2020 election interference investigation into Trump, though it <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-orders-doj-respond-trump-defendants-allegations-smith/story?id=117585664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remained unclear</a> as of press time whether such a disclosure will ultimately get blocked.</p>

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