PHOENIX (AZFamily) — With the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 criminal defendants.

All were charged in the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol after the FBI spent years building cases for many .

Arizona’s Family Investigates has been tracking nearly two dozen of them in Arizona alone.

Because of the sweeping FBI investigation, the names of those behind the riot have been released.

David Crosby , 35, is charged with assaulting police that day after going into the Capitol.

Edward Vallejo was convicted of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors said he waited at a nearby hotel and prepared to deploy with an arsenal of weapons if needed.

“I remember all of it. I remember going in thinking I better stop the vandalism, the violence and the theft,” Chansley said.

In a recent interview with Arizona’s Family, he stressed that he had done nothing wrong.

He was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding and sentenced to 41 months behind bars.

Chansley is now one of the approximately 1,500 others who have received a pardon from Trump .

“He large majority of people that were there that day were peaceful,” he said.

Chansley took to X after learning of the development, writing, “I am gonna buy some motha f****n guns. I love this country!”

“It is incomprehensible to me that any president would do this when so many Capitol police officers and police officers were hurt in the line of duty in the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said.

Mayes sounded off on the move shortly after announcing plans to fight Trump on another front: birthright citizenship .

“I wasn’t terribly surprised. The numbers are surprising,” said Mark Kokanovich, a former federal prosecutor who worked under the Obama and Trump administrations.

He said he has friends who have spent much time working on these cases over the last few years.

“It didn’t mean that they didn’t happen. They did. Now are these people have been pardoned and that’s just an additional part of the history now of what went into Jan. 6,” Kokanovich said.

Arizona’s Family Investigates asked him what message this sends to these prosecutors and the public.

“Well, time will tell what messages the president wants to send. The president is very good at sending messages when he wants to send them,” Kokanovich said.

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