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Reacting to Donald Trumps increasingly vocal support for pardoning all of the Jan. 6 rioters who took part in the insurrection, one Democratic lawmaker raised the prospect that the former president will unleash a new wave of violence on America. As the country observes the third anniversary of the Capitol riot, Trump has promised that well be looking very, very seriously at full pardons which is casting a dark cloud over what could happen if he is re-elected in November. As the Guardians Ed Pilkington is reporting, The scope of Trumps pardon pledge is astonishing both for its quantity a