Donald Trump said Friday that he would look very, very seriously at pardoning his supporters who were charged in last years violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol if hes elected president again.

Trump complained at a speech in Nashville, Tennessee, that people who were arrested after storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were having their lives totally destroyed and being treated worse than terrorists and murderers.

He added: If I become president someday, if I decide to do it, I will be looking at them very, very seriously for pardons. Very, very seriously. Theyve been treated very unfairly.

Trump hasnt yet declared hes running for the presidency.

He also falsely claimed that most of those arrested for the events of Jan. 6 were charged with nothing more than parading through the Capitol.

There is no such parading charge. The defendants have in fact been charged with assault including causing serious bodily injury to police officers as well as destruction of property, theft, conspiracy, seditious conspiracy and trespassing , among other offenses, according to the Department of Justice.

More than 840 people have been arrested. Rioters at the Capitol caused nearly $3 million in losses, including property damage, and some 140 police officers were injured in the violence.

Trumps comments follow three televised hearings by the House select committee investigating the insurrection. The committee has revealed how Trump and his allies threatened to topple the democratic system and how near former Vice President Mike Pence came to an angry mob that called for his hanging because he had refused Trumps orders to reject the 2020 election results.

Staunch Trump supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said earlier this year that a prior call by Trump to pardon the insurrectionists was inappropriate , leading Trump to angrily attack Graham as a RINO (Republican in name only). Lindsey Graham doesnt know what the hell hes talking about , Trump said.

The former president reiterated his position in his Nashville speech that Pence should have followed his orders and upended the election to keep Trump in the Oval Office.

I never called Mike Pence a wimp, he said, denying testimony at the hearing. I never called him a wimp. Mike Pence had a chance to be great I say it sadly, because I like him, but Mike did not have the courage to act .