Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, after the forecast bitter cold prompted planners to move the ceremony under the building's neoclassical dome for the first time in four decades.

President-elect Trump is expected to make good on his promises to pardon at least some Jan. 6 rioters on Monday once he assumes the presidency and kicks off his second term in the White House. Though Trump and his top deputies have kept it vague on which rioters he intends to grant clemency,

The outgoing top prosecutor for the nation’s capital said that he doesn’t see a basis for President-elect Trump to pardon those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an exit interview with The Washington Post.

It all depends on how Trump decides to follow through on his repeated promises to help people involved in riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. One of the men, Timothy Desjardins, is only accused of violent offenses at this point;

Dozens of North Carolinians convicted of participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol four years ago could be pardoned when President-elect Trump takes office Monday. Why it matters: More than 50 current or past North Carolinians have been charged in connection with the Jan.

PARDONS FOR JANUARY 6TH would mark the first time in U.S. history that the leader of an insurrection pardoned insurrectionists. Globally, though, this brand of clemency is not original. For authoritarians,