The shooting on Monday in Vermont near the Canadian border followed the surveillance of an armed couple who dressed in black tactical-style clothing.

Trump’s pardons will encourage more violence.

More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. police were injured when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol four years ago.

To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.

Officials said the agent was shot on Interstate 91, which was closed for several hours near the border with Canada.

Dozens of people with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol gathered outside the detention facility in Washington to celebrate Trump’s pardons of those convicted of crimes that day.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

Officer Daniel Hodges said he had come to grips with the idea that his professional duty now required him to protect a man whose supporters beat him, kicked him and tried to gouge his eyes out in 2021.

At least eight rioters who have faced criminal charges have been granted permission to attend. Most were accused of relatively minor offenses.

Jeffrey Maddrey, the former chief of department, built ties when he walked beats in Brooklyn. That seemed to insulate him as lawsuits and serious accusations against him piled up.

Donald Trump is promising to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. But we can’t let him rewrite history.