January 6 defendants Gregory Purdy (C), Edward Jacob Lang (2nd L) and Robert Turner (R), celebrate their release with friends and well wishers outside the DC Central Detention Facility where they were incarcerated for the 2021 attack on the Capitol, in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2025. On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump signed pardons for more than 1,500 people charged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters trying to overturn the 2020 election. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)