Posted on 01/12/2025 7:56:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Vice President-elect JD Vance said on Jan. 12 that individuals who were violent during the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021, “obviously” should not be pardoned. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to use his clemency power for people who have been charged in connection to the incident over the past four years.
Those who “protested peacefully” on Jan. 6 should receive a pardon, Vance told Fox News. He added that there is also a “little bit of a gray area” in some of those cases.
“I think it’s very simple,” Vance elaborated.
“If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes in connection to the Capitol breach, according to records from the Department of Justice. A number of people were charged with misdemeanor offenses for entering the Capitol in an unauthorized manner, while some were charged with felonies.
Leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys groups were convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as plots to use violence to stop the peaceful transfer of power from Trump to then-President-elect Joe Biden.
Vance said on Jan. 12 that he believes that “a lot of people” have been “prosecuted unfairly” over the past several years.
“We need to rectify that,” Vance said. “We’re very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law.”
Also on the morning of Jan. 12, Vance responded to critics on social media who said that his comments to Fox News didn’t go far enough, with some saying that all Jan. 6 defendants should be pardoned.
“I’ve been defending these guys for years,” Vance wrote on social media platform X.
“The president saying he’ll look at each case (and me saying the same) is not some walkback ... I assure you, we care about people unjustly locked up. Yes, that includes people provoked and it includes people who got a garbage trial.”
That comment came in response to a prominent conservative social media account’s statement on Jan. 12 that new footage has shown “cops shooting innocent J6 protesters and [Vance] goes on Fox News and tells the world that only non violent protesters should get pardoned ... better rethink what you just said JD.”
Vance noted that he donated to a Jan. 6 “political prisoner fund” and was criticized over it during his run for Ohio’s Senate seat.
In a wide-ranging news conference last week at his Florida Mar-a-Lago residence, Trump suggested he would initiate “major pardons” for individuals arrested in the aftermath of Jan. 6.
A reporter asked him, “You said on your first day of office you were going to pardon Jan. 6 defendants. Are you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses?”
“Well, we’re looking at it, and we have other people in there,” Trump said, adding that “people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now.”
“We’ll be looking at the whole thing. But I’ll be making major pardons, yes,” he added.
The president-elect has said on multiple occasions that he would carry out the pardons quickly after he is sworn into office on Jan. 20.
However, even the ones who committed violence should have their cases reviewed to ensuring the same kind of sentencing guidelines were used that would have been used on other defendants.
Sounds good to me - the violence mostly came from the paid agitators anyway.
Bkmrk
100s of innocent protestors were charged with false crimes of violence.
But I doubt any of these agitators and provocateurs were ever charged, or put in prison. They were protected, and let to walk from the get go.
The only 'violent' people in jail were those who were attacked and were trying to defend themselves, or others. Or were just pissed off that they were getting shot at by gas grenades or rubber bullets. My opinion...
They can’t take the kangaroo Democrap court’s word for anyone being violent. Get real people.
I don’t know what he’ll do but this makes sense. If you broke doors and windows etc, you deserve some punishment. But if all you did was meander around, or even read the Bible and pray, you should never have been charged so heinously by this maniacal justice department.
You have grandmothers in jail for taking selfies at OUR capitol so yeah release them now
I tend to agree. That guy Ray Epps seen on 3 videos saying “we’re going into the Capitol” and whispering into someone’s ear a minute before they breached the barrier got 6 months probation, after a year of no investigation. Only because of public outrage. Clearly there was a set up.
“JD Vance Says Trump Won’t Issue Pardons For Violent Jan. 6 Defendants: ‘Only Those who “protested peacefully” on Jan. 6 should receive a pardon...’”
As I see it, EVERYONE around Trump, and Trump himself, has to be VERY CAREFUL regarding what they say as there are a lot of nominees that need to be confirmed and a lot of ‘sensitive’ Senators (also known as RINOs) that need to be coddled.
I’ll wait on Trump to see what he does.
100s of innocent protestors were charged with false crimes of violence.
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That’s right. Each case needs to be reviewed.
Vance is wrong, and going squishy.
None of these people would be locked up if the FBI hadn’t incited the situation and ENTRAPPED them.
Even if they had done something wrong, the time has long since passed for a normal period of incarceration.
Vance needs to find the balls he used to have.
Every J6er should be pardoned.
For those namby pamby church ladies saying there should be punishment, check the record they have ALL been punished.
Equal justice under law, you’ll find that on the SCOTUS building.
It ain’t been happening lately.
Go back to the PHONY Michael Brown riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
A relative of Brown is on videotape inciting the crowd when he said “burn this bitch down”, and they did.
That was an INSURRECTION and he was never charged let alone punished.
J D Vance is kissing up to Elite Stream Media just like all the Deep Staters and GOPe globalist scum who characterized the Republican wing of the Uniparty before Trump came along.
I agree, 100%!
wrong Vance.
we need to pardon everyone prosecuted by the DOJ. all those prosecutions are tainted.
I vote for commutations for the violent ones and then go after all the prosecutors and feds that went after the peaceful protesters who broke NO laws!
My dear friends, Mark and Jalise Middleton, were caught up in that. They were at the front, got shoved, the cops thought they were attacking and went for Mark. Jalise saw her husband getting grabbed and pepper-sprayed by the police and jumped in the defend him.
Both are in jail serving several years each.
These are good people. Mark has a Bachelor’s in Marketing and a Doctorate in Theology. He is a pastor who officiated my son’s wedding. Both are hardworking, God-fearing country people who volunteered countless hours to their church and community. They are the first to lend a hand to someone in need and until the Great Steal, lead peaceful, law-abiding lives.
When I hemmoraghed with my 2nd child, Jalise saw the ambulance pull up and without hesitation hit the door to help. While I was fighting for my life and the life of my unborn child, my toddler firstborn was safe in her care. She cleaned up the blood, straightened up the house, fed and played with my son and even kept him the following day so my frazzled husband could get some rest. Mark and Jalise started a prayer chain for us and even acted as character witnesses when CPS came knocking on totally bogus charges (my son had colic but someone reported my husband as abusing my son because he cried and vomited after eating...until we found the right formula).
These people do not belong in prison.
If Antifa goons can burn down cities and get a slap on the wrist, everyone should get a pardon.
Pardon them all.
What about those who were peaceful but fought back in self-defense?
You’re apos. And be be banned for banned for life
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