He made them pay their own defense while the RNC and PACS pay his. He could have pardoned every one of them but said, “screw em.” He could care less about them.
Re: 15 - be ready for the claims that “he didn’t know who to pardon!”. Even after going through the list of people arrested prior to President Trump leaving office and posting that number, the usual posters made excuse after excuse for him not issuing pardons to selected people.
Totally untrue.