Donald Trump’s election victory on November 5 sparked an explosion of enthusiasm among the jailed January 6 rioters and their supporters, with many expecting the former president to pardon them when he returns to power in 2025 .

“After four long years, I’m finally coming home. It’s so surreal,” said Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang, who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and was arrested the same month. News week Wednesday, the same day Trump was elected president for the second time. “Hollywood couldn’t have written a better story.”

Lang, who was 25 at the time of the Capitol riots, is accused of brandishing a dangerous weapon at Capitol Police officers and obstructing an official proceeding. Footage from the riot shows him smashing a bat at Capitol police officers “multiple times,” according to a FBI affidavit dated January 15, 2021. Lang, who describes himself as a political prisoner, is still awaiting trial.

In an article published Wednesday on X, Lang celebrated Trump’s victory as time to go home. “I’m coming home!!!! THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF JANUARY 6TH ARE FINALLY COMING HOME!!!!” he wrote. “In just 75 days, on January 20, 2025, when Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, he will pardon all J6 hostages,” Lang added.

His hope was echoed by other rioters and by those campaigning for their release, who are now clinging to Trump’s campaign promise to pardon some of those involved in the January 6 violence.

“As a Trump supporter, the only elected lawmaker prosecuted for January 6, and a peaceful protester in 2020, I am 100% confident that President-elect Trump will pardon non-violent protesters,” said Derrick Evans, a January 6 rioter who was sentenced to three months in prison in June 2022, said News week.

“And you might even see J6ers joining the administration or returning to Washington as members of Congress. Or Senate even,” he added.

Paula Calloway, who runs the Patriot Mail Project in support of the jailed rioters, said News week that “Trump’s well-deserved victory” was a victory shared by the January 6 community. “I’m waiting for pardons for everyone and we hope they come quickly, because this has ruined and ruined so many lives,” she said.

While Trump promised to pardon some of those who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he did not specify which of the more than 1,400 charged rioters would receive such treatment. Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt previously said her administration would decide “on a case-by-case basis when he returns to the White House.”

Of those federally charged in connection with the storming of the Capitol, more than 500 have been accused of assaulting, resisting or obstructing police; some 1,000 people pleaded guilty or were found guilty at trial.

The longest sentence was given to the former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a plot to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden. David Nicholas Dempsey, who repeatedly attacked Capitol police officers with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in August of this year.

The Trump campaign has not ruled out that any rioters, including the most violent ones like Tarrio and Dempsey, could benefit from a pardon. News week contacted the Trump campaign for comment by email early Friday morning, outside of normal business hours.