Posted on 01/21/2025 4:17:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency for nearly 1,500 Jan. 6 protestors, including those who were charged and convicted of crimes against police officers.
Speaking from the White House, Mr. Trump pointed to left-leaning district attorneys across the country who have pursued light sentences for severe crimes.
“Murderers today aren’t even charged. You have murderers in this country that aren’t charged all over,” the president said. “Take a look at what’s gone on in Philadelphia. Take a look at what’s gone on in LA where people murder people and they don’t get charged.”
Mr. Trump said the Jan. 6 protesters served their term in an “inhumane,” “disgusting” prison.
He blamed the Biden administration for refusing to pursue sentences against those who rioted following the murder of George Floyd in Democratic-led cities in 2020 during Mr. Trump’s first term.
“Also take a look at Minneapolis because I was there and I watched it,” he said. “If I didn’t bring in the National Guard that city wouldn’t even exist today. People were killed and no one went to jail.”
Asked whether the pardons were sending a message that assaulting law enforcement officials is acceptable, Mr. Trump said “No, the opposite.”
“I’m the friend of police more than any other president that’s ever been in this office,” he said.
Mr. Trump on Monday pardoned well over 1,000 people who were charged in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of pro-Trump supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying President Biden’s election win.
Mr. Trump also commuted the sentences of 14 people in the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, who were charged with seditious conspiracy.
Democrats and some Republicans in Congress criticized the pardons.
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That a-hole reporter was obsessed with Jan 6th police
That was the first question .
He asked it again later
For those that missed it
Full President Trump Press conference and U.S. Infrastructure Investment remarks Jan 21, 2025
He’s exactly right. Dumbass far left, RAT females ask the murderers like Luigi if they could have his children.
I thought Trump was referring to the killer of Ashley Babbit...but either way, sounds good to me!
You can’t support the police and pardon the very people who attacked them.
I wanted to make commie Peter Alexander in the mouth, yelling at President Trump after he young bathed the dementa packet for four years.
Some who pled guilty to assaulting police didn’t actually do so but were threatened with much longer sentences if their case went to trial in DC so they figured it was the best they could get.
IMO Trump could’ve pardoned them all on his way out in 2021 & he wouldn’t have been vilified any worse than he already was.
I’m glad he supports LEOs but the part about wanting the death penalty to automatically be sought when a cop is killed is a bridge too far for me. Sometimes that would be reasonable but not always.
On Jan 6th, it isn’t real clear who attacked who....
They’re in prison for 4 years for breaking some glass.
Most of them didn’t even do that.
You can count on Susan Collins to complain.
But the lefty loons are just fine with this last minute commutation by Joey boy....murdered two FBI agents, not one, but TWO!
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-grants-leonard-peltier-clemency-killings-fbi-agents-2017887
Get lost, troll.
Early on I had an inkling that the press would be kinder this time around. I was wrong.
I just watched two examples on Laura Ingraham of the preposterous injustice against some J6 victims.
The male had to sign an admission of guilt for which he was innocent or go to prison for three levels of felony convictions. He was an innocent man using video-—broke no law. They made up his “crimes.”
Similar for woman who “stole a table” when she put her hand on top of it.
Owen Schroyer, Alex Jones’ co-host for seven years, spent four months in jail and he never entered a building. He stood outside with a megaphone and begged people not to go in.
exactly! Ashley Babbitt may be the only unarmed person ever shot by police that the left was ok with!
The left is STILL upset about Kent State all these decades later!
No. To be honest, they were all sent to prison for protesting, something that is supposedly guaranteed in the Constitution. Ashli Babbit was shot dead for just being next to some broken glass. None of the protestors were armed.
Did Trump mention that Komrade Kammy would bail out any violent criminal that just happened to get charged?
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