President Donald Trump is defending one of his most divisive actions since returning to the White House — pardoning nearly everyone convicted in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Trump in a news conference Tuesday was dismissive of the effort to prosecute nearly 1,

That figure would represent almost all of the nearly 1,600 people who were charged in the riot by the fourth anniversary Jan. 6, according to the Justice Department. About 1,270 had been convicted and 1,