President Donald Trump has continued to defend his controversial pardons of the Jan. 6 rioters during a Fox News interview, claiming that most were "absolutely innocent" despite being convicted. Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview that aired Wednesday night that he made the pardons and commutations for 1,

Biden shocked many of his supporters last month when he pardoned his son Hunter from all present and future crimes out of fear that the coming Trump administration would single him out. Monday’s pardons seem to be protecting some of the right’s favorite bogeymen from Trump’s vengeance, which could come soon after he is sworn in later in the day.

In his final hours in office, he pardoned Milley, Fauci and the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack.