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Capitol Rioter Says She Would Refuse Pardon From Trump
The Daily Beast ^ | January 13, 2025 | Zachary Folk

Posted on 01/13/2025 7:10:06 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

A former Capitol rioter who publicly turned on President-elect Donald Trump after serving 60 days in federal prison has said she would “refuse” a pardon from the incoming president, who has previously promised to free nonviolent offenders who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Pamela Hemphill, a grandmother in her seventies who pleaded guilty to charges related to the riot, sounded off on social media about her thoughts on her prospective pardon. “I’m not going to be bullied by MAGA anymore, as those who went as far as calling my Probation Officer trying to get me in trouble backfired on them, thinking I would stop speaking out, just give me more confidence to continue!” Hemphill wrote in a post on X. “I will refuse a pardon from felon Trump!” Trump previously highlighted Hemphill’s case in a very brief post on his Truth Social app in 2023—but by that time Hemphill had already distanced herself from the MAGA movement.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allthegovtplants; didshepostit; fed; fedretread; fishypost; idaho; january6; pamelahemphill; pardons; rayepps; trump; zacharyfolk
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1 posted on 01/13/2025 7:10:06 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Sometimes you even get them to drink.


2 posted on 01/13/2025 7:11:19 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

glowie?


3 posted on 01/13/2025 7:12:03 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Per Dershowitz, a recipient of a pardon has no power to accept or reject. The pardon event is 100% on the part of the person giving the pardon.


4 posted on 01/13/2025 7:12:09 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
as those who went as far as calling my Probation Officer trying to get me in trouble

Why would anyone do that?

Our side as it's share of cretinous jackasses.

5 posted on 01/13/2025 7:12:47 AM PST by Fido969
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Her time in the Re-education Camp seems to have worked.


6 posted on 01/13/2025 7:13:03 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

She slammed a five-gallon jug of the Lefty Koolaid...


7 posted on 01/13/2025 7:13:55 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MayflowerMadam

I think Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a pardon can be refused but not a commutation? Something like that.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 7:15:00 AM PST by frogjerk
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ooops. Unintended theme change changes sentence meaning. Early morning rejection. Return to coffee mess for reflection.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 7:15:19 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Dersh is wrong. Accepting a pardon removes the 5th Amendment rights if one is later called to testify. Many have (and are) refusing pardons.

More here.....

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/can-one-refuse-a-presidential-dR_IEbvDSiS65pY75MKZXw


10 posted on 01/13/2025 7:16:07 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Pardon her anyway because her conviction was still wrong. Would send a message that kangaroo courts are bad even when fools like them.


11 posted on 01/13/2025 7:16:50 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Chump wants no help, chump gets no help.


12 posted on 01/13/2025 7:16:55 AM PST by OldHarbor
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Not everyone is sane.


13 posted on 01/13/2025 7:17:23 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: Fido969

How do you know it’s MAGA people that did it?


14 posted on 01/13/2025 7:17:25 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Fido969

I doubt it’s “our side”.

This little old grandmother is being threatened and harassed by leftists (including the State) to keep quiet.


15 posted on 01/13/2025 7:18:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Just passing on what I heard him say a couple weeks ago. (Dersh is almost always wrong. 🙄)


16 posted on 01/13/2025 7:18:28 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Okay. Your choice.


17 posted on 01/13/2025 7:20:25 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Per Dershowitz, a recipient of a pardon has no power to accept or reject.”

I can’t wait to see people forced OUT of jail, that will be different.


18 posted on 01/13/2025 7:21:34 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Attention getting move, sees herself as a new media darling.


19 posted on 01/13/2025 7:21:50 AM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Cool. No need to pardon her then.


20 posted on 01/13/2025 7:23:56 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Drill Baby Drill!)
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