President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s planning to issue “major pardons” for the Jan. 6 defendants who breached the U.S. Capitol Building in 2021 as congressional lawmakers gathered to certify President Joe Biden’s victory.

“People that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now,” Trump said during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. “So we’ll be looking at the whole thing but I’ll be making major pardons, yes.”

According to the Justice Department, more than 1,500 people have been charged with crimes in connection with the breach and more than 1,000 have pleaded guilty to either felonies or misdemeanors.

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