By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

WASHINGTON — As it became clear that Donald Trump was returning to the White House, the Florida man who posed for photos with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during the Capitol riot came out a bottle of Trump brand sparkling wine. “You’re all in trouble,” he said after taking a sip in a video. shared on social networks.

The rioters who stormed the Capitol January 6, 2021are celebrating Trump’s victory and hoping he keeps his campaign promise to pardon them.

Trump did not mention the Jan. 6 defendants, whom he called “hostages” and “patriots,” during his victory speech Wednesday. But his defeat against Vice President Kamala Harris casts doubt on the future of the largest lawsuit in Justice Department history following the unprecedented attack on a seat of American democracy.

More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot that left more than 100 police officers injured and forced lawmakers into hiding as they gathered to certify Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. More than 1,000 defendants pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial, including crimes of trespassing, assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

Trump’s praise of the Jan. 6 defendants has been a focus of his campaign, with rallies honoring them as heroes, featuring a song he collaborated with a group of imprisoned rioters. Trump has not explained how he will decide who will be pardoned. But he suggested he would consider granting them even to people accused of assault as well as the former Proud Boys leader convicted of orchestrating a violent plot in 2020 to keep Trump in power.

During his first presidential term, Trump deployed his pardon power in an overtly political manner, granting pardons during his final days in office to a wide range of political allies – including five defendants convicted under the Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation – as well as celebrities, Republican Congressmen and father of Jared Kushner, his son-in-law.

Jacob Langa Capitol riot defendant jailed while awaiting trial in Washington, posted hours after Trump’s victory that he and other Jan. 6 “political prisoners” were “finally going home.”

“There will be no bitterness in my heart when I leave these doors 75 days from now on Inauguration Day,” Lang wrote.

Lawyers for some Jan. 6 defendants cited Trump’s victory in asking to stay their clients’ sentencing.