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In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, in violation of his constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, issued pardons or commutations on January 20, 2025, Granting Pardons and Commutations of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, to more than 1,500 insurrectionists aiming by force and violence, to overturn the Presidential election of 2020, including aiming to hang Vice President Mike Pence. The crimes committed before and after January 6, 2021, by individuals who received pardons included child sexual assault, production of child pornography, rape, conspiracy to murder Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, kidnapping, and domestic violence by strangulation.