Within a few hours of being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed pardons for about 1,500 people involved in the U.S. Capitol riot four years ago on January

Michael Tyler Roberts: Roberts, of Knoxville, was sentenced in December to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. The DOJ says Roberts assaulted a line of police officers in a tunnel entrance to the Capitol.

On his first day in office after four years away from the White House, President Donald Trump granted clemency to more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.