It’s called a blanket pardon. Carter did it for all of the draft dodgers. It was not necessary to identify all of them individually or for them to have been charged. Trump could have issued a blanket pardon for anyone that entered the Capitol building on January 6th. He could have even excluded people charged with violent crimes. There are many ways he could have done it, and he didn’t have to know everyone involved and he didn’t have to wit for them to be charged. Calling someone else a moron when you are so very wrong in your statement might make people think the label more correctly applies to you.
That is a low-info opinion. It just is.
See that gif?
So how many of those Capitol tourists were actually arrested on the day of Jan6?
Bueller? Buelllllllerrrrrr? You don't know, do you.
Only 14.
And not many more by Jan20, and among those few, only one felony charge. ONE!
So the breadth of the tourists/offenses/eventual charges, was barely known by the time of the puppet-state White Hospice installation.
Asking Trump to gamble on a "blanket pardon" would have produced the unique sight of many of the DC Federal judiciary fighting each other on the Federal DC Courthouse steps to be the first to suspend/injunct/void Trump's "blanket pardon" the next day, if not the same day .. the next hour!
The first Marxist Federal Judge to demand a two-headed counter-attack would have gotten the job, likely a coin-flip between the down-low mustached hoodoo 'judge' v Stone's-cold biotch 'judge':
- The first attack would have been to challenge a "blanket pardon" for lack of a “specificity requirement,” or iow, failing to enumerate the offenses pardoned. In fact, this is the exact tack the Left plainly stated that they had fully pre-planned to do if Trump "blanket pardoned" anyone in his Administration or his family before Jan20.
- The second attack would have been the #MSM ginning a #Narrative to draw parallels between Ford's pardon of Nixon ruining Ford's chances in 1976 (a political strategy that sure as hell worked), and making certain any "blanket pardon" tar-babied Trump in identical fashion.
You are absolutely correct.