A former top prosecutor from the D.C. U.S. attorney's office called Trump's pardons for those charged in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol "disturbing."

Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who had been serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were freed on Tuesday, after the new president pardoned more than 1,

They were very embarrassed. They had a great deal of remorse and shame,” said the attorney for a Glen Carbon man who traveled to Washington D.C. with his brother and cousin.