Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sharply criticized President Trump for issuing a sweeping pardon to nearly all defendants charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Schiff, a former member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, called the move a "grotesque display" of power in an interview on MSNBC's "Inside with Jen Psaki."

"It's obscene. It's a grotesque display of his new power as President to pardon these 15- or 1600 people, which I have to imagine includes people that committed violent assaults on law enforcement.

“It really is a terrible way to begin, but not a surprising way to begin the new........

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