To say President Donald Trump "came in hot" on his first few days in office would be a massive understatement.

Perhaps one of the most impactful and headline-generating decisions he made was the one involving giving 1500 pardons to those who were charged and/or jailed as a result of their alleged actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

According to the New York Post, in a "Face the Nation" interview, Vice President J.D. Vance proclaimed that he fully backs Trump's decision to issue the pardons, after saying previously that he didn't agree with pardoning any of the "violent offenders" from that day at the Capitol. 

Vance reiterated that Trump held true on his promise to offer the pardons on a "case-by-case" basis, and praised the president for sticking to that.

What did he say?

Vance held nothing back during the interview, heaping praise on his boss for making the controversial move -- a move he had promised for several months leading up to his massive election victory in November.

"What the president said consistently on the campaign … is that he was going to look at a case by case basis … and that’s exactly what we did," Vance said.

Vance told CBS host Margaret Brennan that he and Trump -- and many others -- believe that there was a massive "denial of due process of liberty" for many of the J6 cases.

"We looked at 1,600 cases. And the thing that came out of it, Margaret, is that there was a massive denial of due process of liberty, and a lot of people were denied their constitutional rights," he told Brennan. "I think he made the right decision."

The vice president added, "If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned."

The New York Post noted:

There were 608 people charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding or obstructing officers during the civil unrest, and of that group, 174 were accused of using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.

Doubling down

Vance explained that while not everyone did "everything perfectly" during the J6 chaos, the unfair legal process afterward was far out of line.

"Violence against a police officer is not justified. But that doesn’t mean that you should have Merrick Garland’s weaponized Department of Justice expose you to [an] incredibly unfair process," Vance said.

Some Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), disagreed with pardons for anyone involved in violence against police officers.

"When you pardon people who attack police officers, you’re sending the wrong signal to the public at large. And it’s not what you want to do to protect cops. But he has that power," Graham said.