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."

The president pardoned nearly everyone convicted in connection with Jan. 6. Other Trump supporters had their sentences commuted pending “further research,” the president said.

In pardoning more than 1,500 supporters charged in the Jan. 6 attack, Trump went further than he had suggested just a month earlier.