US President, Donald Trump has risen to defend his granting of pardons for the US Capitol rioters.
During a press conference on Tuesday announcing the AI investment, reporters repeatedly asked Trump about his sweeping pardons for the roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with the US Capitol riot in January 2021.
"Aren't you sending the message that assaulting officers is okay", one reporter asked, referring to those who have been pardoned who were convicted for assaulting Capitol police.
Trump said that those people "spent years in jail" while "murderers don't even go to jail in this country".
He then defended his support of police by saying he was freeing two police officers from jail who had been arrested for "going after a criminal".
