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Sen. Ernst: Bothersome Trump Calls January 6 Prisoners ‘Hostages’
Breitbart ^ | 01/14/2024 | Pam Key

Posted on 01/14/2024 8:49:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) said NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it bothered her former President Donald Trump called those convicted and jailed for their actions on January 6, 2021 “hostages.”

Anchor Kristen Welker said, “I want to stay on this topic of hostages. Donald Trump has gotten a lot of attention for labeling those who are serving time for the January 6 attack as hostages. You obviously know the difference between those convicted of crimes related to January 6 and hostages. Does it bother you that Donald Trump is using that language?”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: botheredbylaw; bothersome; capitolriot; demonicrat; ernst; jan6; january; joniernst; rinosaretraitors; rinosedition; trump; trumppersecution
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I call her Helmet Head. She is a RINO loser and needs to be booted.


41 posted on 01/14/2024 9:29:04 AM PST by battletank
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The enemies are revealing themselves.


42 posted on 01/14/2024 9:37:20 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yep, remember her campaign pledge that if elected, she would make the D C establishment squeal? So far, she is the only one squealing with compliance and submission because she obviously likes it.


43 posted on 01/14/2024 9:37:40 AM PST by odawg
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To: chopperk
wbat is the truth?

How many people are still in jail / prison from Jan 6th that have not had a trial?

I need particulars, ie: who set the trial dates?

what were the charges?

did the defense file to postpone the trial?

all we're getting is " these people are still in jail for crimes committed on jan 6 2021" . .

no specifics. using trigger words like " hostages" sounds like a wag the dog type thing.

tell a lie with a little truth and it becomes a big lie that everyone belives.

44 posted on 01/14/2024 9:38:00 AM PST by Ikeon (this space for rent)
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To: battletank

I. O. W. A

I
Owe the
World an
Apology

OR

Idiots
Out
Wandering
Aimlessly


45 posted on 01/14/2024 9:41:08 AM PST by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What is wrong with you Senator Ernst? You are good with people Bering held in jail without trial? What is scary is that you are in the military and don’t seem to know the Constitution. What’s even worse is you are in the Senate.


46 posted on 01/14/2024 9:46:16 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: FLT-bird
Welker said there was ...a difference between those convicted of crimes related to January 6 and hostages.

...and Ernst blindly accepted the premise - while she could well have argued there is no difference.

Consider even those who were over-charged and are no longer imprisoned. They were badgered into pleading to a lesser offense just to get out of a harsh prison environment likely far from home and family.

They now will be held "hostage", likely with fewer personal choices for a lifetime with the shadow of a criminal record.

47 posted on 01/14/2024 9:49:53 AM PST by frog in a pot (The Dem/Com admin's "Open Borders" policy is clearly less than 5% about compassion.)
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To: Paladin2
They are political prisoners held in a ‘Rat Gulag.

That D.C. jail is certainly a gulag for those that are far from home, family and resources.

48 posted on 01/14/2024 9:52:35 AM PST by frog in a pot (The Dem/Com admin's "Open Borders" policy is clearly less than 5% about compassion.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is Joni OUT as a possible veep pick?


49 posted on 01/14/2024 9:54:45 AM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hostages is the correct word... and ONE at least is a martyr


50 posted on 01/14/2024 9:58:06 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Sen. Ernst: Bothersome Trump Calls January 6 Prisoners ‘Hostages’”

In her defense, she is a woman, after all.


51 posted on 01/14/2024 10:08:46 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s right. They aren’t hostages.

They are political prisoners.

A hostage can be redeemed by paying a ransom, or doing a demanded action.


52 posted on 01/14/2024 10:17:07 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: FLT-bird

As you say.


53 posted on 01/14/2024 10:17:33 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: sasquatch

And you.


54 posted on 01/14/2024 10:18:09 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Paladin2

And you, too. (Three?)


55 posted on 01/14/2024 10:18:39 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: 38special

Asa Hutchinson? A one term governor, no longer, of Arkansas a nobody who dropped out of the R nomination race bc he was getting less than one percent of the vote. He has no following, other than the media, and he has his own legal troubles with his son. He was there as the voice of the Bush family to try to defeat Trump and his voters.


56 posted on 01/14/2024 10:18:46 AM PST by laconic
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s bothersome that Ernst won’t admit the J6 prisoners are hostages and political prisoners.


57 posted on 01/14/2024 10:24:52 AM PST by Kazan
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To: EinNYC

Back then, I liked Joni’s political view on most issues, but I never got why that video of her castrating pigs was so celebrated and applauded. I get the symbology of “de-balling those elite politicians who feed at the trough of govt. funds, but I was a bit less fascinated with seeing her ‘work’ than others.


58 posted on 01/14/2024 10:25:39 AM PST by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joni is firmly in Mitch McConnell’s hip pocket and has been for some time. As the picture unfolds through this election it seems much of Iowa’s “conservative” leaders aren’t that conservative after all. I’d guess for all the money Iowa vacuum’s up from the government and world trade our “conservative” leadership has trended globalist rather than populist in their outlook. There seems to be a deepening chasm between big business handlers and the common folk. This election should be interesting to see where the “family” farmers shake out. In that sense, Iowa is a microcosm of the world stage vis-à-vis the Netherlands and Germany.


59 posted on 01/14/2024 10:30:48 AM PST by Paraclete
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To: sasquatch

I vote for political prisoners. All aye say aye. All
no say no. Motion carried.

I also vote to primary the traitor Ernst. All aye say aye.
All
no say no. Motion carried.


60 posted on 01/14/2024 10:49:13 AM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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