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Trump says he would look ‘very, very seriously’ at pardons for Jan 6 defendants if reelected
The HIll ^ | 06/17/22 | CAROLINE VAKIL

Posted on 06/17/2022 6:15:42 PM PDT by American Number 181269513

Former President Trump said on Friday that he would look “very, very seriously” at pardoning those charged in connection with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, if he ran for and became president again.

Speaking during a Faith and Freedom event in Nashville, Tenn., Trump said the defendants charged in the Capitol riot were “having their lives totally destroyed and being treated worse than terrorists and murderers,” claiming that most had been “charged with parading through the Capitol.”

“And 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,” he added.

Trump has not yet announced whether he will run for president again in 2024, though he has at times teased the possibility that he will.

The former president has previously said that if he ran for president again and won, he would “treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” including potentially giving pardons to defendants charged in the riot.

One of his close allies, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), signaled after Trump made those earlier comments that he thought the idea of offering pardons to Capitol riot defendants was “inappropriate,” leading the former president to call the South Carolina Republican a “RINO,” or “Republican in name only.”

The former president’s Friday remarks come amid a slate of public hearings this month from the the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.

During its latest hearing on Thursday, the panel showed evidence that conservative lawyer John Eastman, who advised Trump on a plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election, sought a pardon from the White House following the Jan. 6 attack.


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KEYWORDS: jan6; pardons; trump
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To: bitt

Hopefully DAY ONE!


41 posted on 06/17/2022 8:34:08 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump said "if Biden's elected markets will crash and gas could go to $7.99 a gallon.")
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To: Taxman

Ping


42 posted on 06/17/2022 8:37:46 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: American Number 181269513
The entire speech was terrific. I don't know how to hot link it but here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdvg6n5uAzA

Well worth the time to watch.

43 posted on 06/17/2022 8:46:30 PM PDT by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: proust

If I recall correctly Nixon was already in the process of getting impeached before Ford’s pardon was issued. In other words Ford did not pardon him before every congress critter was made aware of Watergate break in.


44 posted on 06/17/2022 8:47:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/DeSantis & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: winterystorm

I never knew Trump has a money printing machine at Mar-a-Lago. Lawyers for hundreds of people would be astronomically expensive.


45 posted on 06/17/2022 8:49:34 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/DeSantis & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: winterystorm

Up until last year, I lived in the DC Metro area. Lived in the Maryland suburbs and commuted to work in the Virginia suburbs. Virtually every day I commuted down Bladensburg Road to Maryland Avenue and down Constitution Ave. (If you’re familiar with the area, you’ll know what I’m talking about)

I knew days beforehand that on that day, I would take the Beltway (and double my commute distance). I didn’t even want my cellphone to ping off of a DC tower from midnight to midnight. Not anywhere in the District.

I’m not the smartest guy in the world, not even close. How that number of people didn’t realize what was patently a setup was crazy to me.


46 posted on 06/17/2022 8:49:58 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force in the US -- already gone Galt TYVM)
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To: entropy12

Ex Parte Garland

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/71/333/

…The power of pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission,

either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.

The power is not subject to legislative control...


47 posted on 06/17/2022 8:51:32 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: LibertyWoman

bookmark, thanks


48 posted on 06/17/2022 9:00:17 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: markomalley; DoughtyOne
He could’ve done that any time before 1/20/2021@11:59AM. He should’ve done that by that time.

Not so fast. Trump would have to be sure he wasn't pardoning somebody who actually deserved jail time. No way he could have foreseen the unjust treatment that did occur to Jan 6 protesters.

49 posted on 06/17/2022 9:04:15 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Think about Blackstone’s Ratio: “better than 10 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man suffer.”


50 posted on 06/17/2022 9:08:29 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force in the US -- already gone Galt TYVM)
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To: jjotto

Doesn’t matter.

Nobody prior to Trump leaving office was upset that the rioters weren’t pardoned. Nobody was really asking for it either and when they did they got made fun of.

People are just using the Trump should have pardoned line now for political purposes or don’t realize it is the BIDEN regime who is abusing the system.

See here...

Lawyer for ‘Q Shaman’ Urges Trump to Pardon Rioters
National Review ^ | 1/15/2021 |
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3925654/posts

(Bunch of comments making fun of the rioters and claiming Trump should not do pardons ensues.)

1. Dang ol’ Qtards. Is there no bridge too far for them?
posted on 1/15/2021, 3:16:40 PM by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)

2. Trump had to undergo a fake impeachment for their actions, and they want him to pardon them? ‘Scuse me, they can go straight to the Hot Place.
4 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:18:34 PM by EinNYC

3. Number 1, eff National Review
Number 2, put rioters in jail.
6 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:21:46 PM by Titus-Maximus

4. I’m telling you guys that at least a solid minority of Q leadership are Leftist PsyOp types. Not all of them (I believe most are good citizens in need of a mystery novel), but a small part of the leadership are Leftist PsyOps. You think someone who was pro-Trump would a) go on CNN and b) liken the protestors to those poor souls that drank that that poisoned Flavor-Aid at Jonestown ....?

Don’t be duped FRiends.
9 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:23:44 PM by spetznaz

5. It really doesn’t speak well for the strength of your case when your first attempt at defending yourself is requesting a pardon for your actions.
11 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:24:23 PM by 2aProtectsTheRest

6. Would pardoning them be considered a High Crime or Misdemeanor? Can President Trump get the impeachment hat trick by Wednesday?
12 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:26:32 PM by KarlInOhio

7. No way.

Those who participated, especially those who were violent and destructive, must be held legally accountable.
13 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:28:04 PM by Theo

8. The short answer is no! Don’t ask for the long answer because it gets profane!
15 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:28:15 PM by eeriegeno

9. No pardons for Antifa/BLM rioters!
19 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:43:42 PM by diatomite

10. Your client is going to get hard time. Ten to twenty years.
25 posted on 1/15/2021, 3:52:32 PM by Meatspace

11. No Pardons!!!
They took part in a riot. Actions have consequences.
29 posted on 1/15/2021, 4:10:30 PM by BuffaloJack

12. OH HELL NO!
35 posted on 1/15/2021, 4:54:57 PM by farmguy

13. Pardon Antifa terrorists? Not surprised.
37 posted on 1/15/2021, 5:33:37 PM by deadrock

14. Why? The instigators were BLM/Antifa. Just like they were at the 2015 / 2016 Trump rallies.
41 posted on 1/16/2021, 1:18:59 AM by tbw2


51 posted on 06/17/2022 9:13:06 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Yep.

Timelines can be very important.


52 posted on 06/17/2022 9:15:18 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: BenLurkin

I agree 100%!


53 posted on 06/17/2022 9:48:41 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://ThereIsHopeInJesus.com)
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To: winterystorm

“If no one went inside the Capitol or broke windows things could have been different.”

It was fbi/antifa that broke windows

Ashli Babbitt and other REAL Trump supporters are seen and heard on video telling them to stop.

That may be why Pelosi put out a hit on Ashli, and had her killed.

J6 was a Pelosi designed riot.

She did a good job blaming it on Trump and you and me.


54 posted on 06/17/2022 10:45:11 PM PDT by Syncro ( God is Good)
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To: rbmillerjr

What was it Mark Twain said?

“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.”


56 posted on 06/17/2022 10:55:29 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

But he saved us from covid by masking, travel restrictions.. common sense stuff including bumpstock bans and mail in ballots. More common sense leadership to come, yay.


57 posted on 06/18/2022 1:06:12 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: American Number 181269513

One of his close allies, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

NOw that’s a problem in waiting right there.

Linda is a living wind sock.

When the winds of political change are harbingers for a Red Tsunami, Linda is all in.But when the going gets tough? Linda is a bailer.

He side lined Nicky Haley quite skillfully.But then her sins were no worse than Linda’s. Both bailers.


58 posted on 06/18/2022 3:34:19 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: markomalley

Taking that to an extreme, you get the Los Angeles D. A. Gascon, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, etc.


59 posted on 06/18/2022 3:34:49 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Candor7

The Hill is saying close ally and are lying PiecesOS . Don’t use Democrat Party propaganda against Trump.


60 posted on 06/18/2022 3:42:14 AM PDT by conservative98
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