Trump compares campus protests to deadly Jan. 6 attack, broadens offer to pardon Capitol rioters

NEW YORK — Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump compared the current wave of encampments and civil disobedience on college campuses to the deadly riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

He suggested Tuesday to reporters that students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza should face punishments similar to those meted out to his supporters who were charged in the Jan. 6 attack. And in a separate interview, he expanded a pledge to pardon Jan. 6 defendants by saying he would consider clemency for all of them.