“If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned,” JD Vance said last week.

Trump’s pardons and commutations include dozens of people who assaulted police officers with baseball bats and chemical sprays. Prosecutors had video and photographic evidence of their crimes. Most admitted guilt and pleaded guilty to the charges. They include those who plotted to use violence to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

Daniel Rodriguez beat Officer (and army veteran) Michael Fanone while Albuquerque Cosper Head and other rioters held him down. Rodriquez fired a stun gun at the base of Fanone’s skull, twice. He also sprayed a fire extinguisher at the police and shoved a wooden pole at a line of officers. A judge called him a “one-man army of hate” and sentenced him to more than 12 years in prison.

Julian Khater blasted chemical spray at a group of officers as the mob overran the police on the west side of the Capitol. One of the officers, Brian Sicknick, died the next day from exposure to the chemicals.

Enrique Tarrio of the far-right Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes with his militia group, the Oath Keepers, planned the insurrection and placed a “quick reaction force” of heavily armed Oath Keepers to rush into Washington with their weapons if called upon. A jury convicted them of seditious conspiracy, which requires proof of violent force against the government.

Many of the officers injured in the Jan. 6 riot said they felt betrayed.  Trump’s near-total pardon of Jan. 6 rioters was denounced by the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the U.S., and the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday.