Posted on 01/18/2025 8:09:58 AM PST by Libloather
The outgoing top prosecutor for the nation’s capital said that he doesn’t see a basis for President-elect Trump to pardon those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an exit interview with The Washington Post.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, who spearheaded the Justice Department’s (DOJ) investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, officially stepped down on Friday.
When questioned if there is anyone among the Jan. 6 cases who could legitimately by offered some type of clemency, Graves said, “As the prosecutor who prosecuted these cases, I don’t see a basis for a pardon or clemency.”
“And that shouldn’t be in any way controversial,” he added. “Because if I thought that the case shouldn’t have been prosecuted, I wouldn’t have prosecuted it. And if I thought that there was some reason for a lesser sentence, I would have advocated for that lesser sentence.”
Graves announced last month that he would step down before Trump returns to the White House. His office has charged more than 1,500 defendants accused of participating in Jan. 6, their charges underpinned by tens of thousands of hours of video and photo evidence, cellphone data and eyewitness testimony. Of those defendants, 996 people have pleaded guilty, and 255 people were convicted by a jury or judge.
Earlier this week, Graves also ensured that investigations and information related to the insurrection would be preserved and will be available later for public review.
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He stands by what he did. He has no choice but to double down.
Because he’s running from Justice as he’s committed some of the most heinous injustices in American history.
“Top” prosecutor my a**. Nothing but an Inquistionist. Might as well be quoting Torquemada.
and what basis did biden use?
Lock this a$$hole up.
The "dood" who quits is not a president, and his opinion is just PR for the headline mongers. This is what passed for journalism and what passes for Democrat thinking. That toilet needs a good flushing.
Show of hands. Who cares what this A-hole “sees”?
This guy is a nazi. You can tell by the way he paints himself as the good guy, above reproach, despite having violated the Bill of Rights again and again vis a vis the J6 defendants.
After you light the fuse on an M80 and drop it in.
I voted for Trump. And enough other people did to provide the basis.
And if Biden issues more unjustified pardons, Trump should play the same game.
No one who matters cares what he thinks.
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“Because if I thought that the case shouldn’t have been prosecuted, I wouldn’t have prosecuted it. And if I thought that there was some reason for a lesser sentence, I would have advocated for that lesser sentence.”
IOW, he’s sees himself as Judge/Jury/Executioner, the only one whose opinion counts.
He was a Clinton campaign operative in the ‘90s, nothing more then a political hack. He was literally persecuting his political opponents. Nothing impartial or just about him, a little weasel who imprisoned thousands on the “insurrectionist!” soundbite.
And he knows damn well that the 2020 election was stolen.
Does Biden have a basis for the pardons granted to 37 prisoners who were on death row?
Why now? Because he figures that it will lessen his chances of being indicted! BWAHAHAHA!
There was no basis for going whole prosecutorial hog against 99% of the velvet-rope-respecting Jan 6 visitors to the Capitol.
He’s not a Nazi. He’s an avowed Communist, just ask him.
The better comparison would be to Beria or Vishinsky.
Graves is just znother DEI UNTOUCHABLE!
Or how about the destructive looters and rioters in DC after Trump's inauguration in 2017 - how many of them did you hunt down and prosecute, Mr. Graves? I suspect the answer is 0.
Fedsurrection weaponizations.
Matthew Graves needs to be ground into grounds [legally].
no basis needed not that he would see things DJT’s way. but Prez has power and no need to justify - period.
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