The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood,

Trump issued broad, across the board pardons for roughly 1,500 January 6 rioters — and he made no distinction between those who were violent and those who weren't. One of the many defendants who was pardoned was Daniel Ball,

Though Trump started off his first full day as president by unceremoniously firing four prominent appointees from Biden’s administration, several of them pushed back on his characterization of events.