His pardon powers ended after the Senate determined the election outcome.
That’s news to me. He was still president.
Billyboy Clinton issued pardons on his last day as prez IIRC.
It woulda even added MORE to the bullshiite theatre aspect of all those arrests. The President of the USA walks down to the jail where political prisoners are being held and demands that they be released because they are pardoned. Media gold for his next campaign.