Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt told Newsmax on Friday that once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, he would like “to see these political prisoners released.”

Hundreds of people have been imprisoned over the last four years for their participation in the Jan. 6 protests on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Trump has promised to pardon them “if they are innocent.”  

Holt said it’s imperative that Trump “preserve their right to go at the federal government for wrongful prosecution.”

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