Posted on 01/21/2025 6:57:50 PM PST by Morgana
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that President Donald Trump’s pardoning the January 6 protesters was to create a “reserve army of political foot soldiers.”
Raskin said, “The question is why? Pardons have generally been used when people are actually innocent or there was some procedural miscarriage of justice. Nobody’s claiming that these people were innocent. We’ve got them on tape, you know, hitting the police officers over the head with pipes and bats and Confederate battle flags and all of that’s been established. Most of them pled guilty. The others have been convicted. There was no procedural miscarriage of justice. On the contrary, they’ve had every benefit of due process.”
He continued, “So pardons in that case are reserved for people who are reformed, people who are rehabilitated and no longer constitute a threat to public safety. So that’s what’s missing in this conversation. If President Trump had come forward and said, ‘We’ve spoken to these people, they are not going to be attacking police officers in the future the way that they bloodied and wounded and hospitalized 140 of them in Washington, D.C., they are not going to be attacking the rule of law and democratic institutions, they are not going to be interrupting the peaceful transfer of power, and they’re not going to be a threat to their communities.’ We haven’t heard anything like that.”
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What a moronic suggestion!
Nobody’s claiming that these people were innocent. We’ve got them on tape, you know, hitting the police officers over the head with pipes and bats and Confederate battle flags and all of that’s been established. Most of them pled guilty. The others have been convicted. There was no procedural miscarriage of justice. On the contrary, they’ve had every benefit of due process.”
What a lying sack of chicken waste! These cretins have no shame.
Raskin conveniently overlooks Bronco’s and Brandon’s far more dangerous BLM/Antifa fifth-cloumn.
despicable human like schumer
despicable human like schumer
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They cut out his brain and left the tumor. He lived anyway.
Ratskin's boy committed suicide when he found out that he was spawn of that POS.
You know, I’m half-inclined to make his prediction come true.
Speaking of political foot soldiers — a brigade sized domestic terror outfit, in various guises, has been plaguing this country for the last eight-plus years. One year antifa, in the following year BLM, and climate kooks the next.
What, if anything, can be done about them?
Does anyone have to wonder why this guy’s son committed suicide?
As compared to what the left routinely hires as paid protestors?
I think that was Obunga that wanted a civilian force, equal in size and funding to the military. Nice try, though, Ratskin.
Hey Jamie. When you become president you can decide who y pay do. And why. Until then you can suck my #%^*.
Who you pardon. Jeez.
There is no bottom for these scumbags.
“Raskin Suggests Trump Pardoned J6 Defendants to Be ‘Reserve Army of Political Foot Soldiers’”
Other than changing the word “Political” to “MAGA”, I have to agree with Raskin. At least one of them, probably more, are planning to run for Congress and it’s hard to imagine anyone with more MAGA Street Cred than someone who served, possibly for several years, in DC Central (sorry Dan Crenshaw, even your flashy advertising and fake eye patch cannot match that, LOL).
This is typical Leftist projection. But you know what?
I listened to the recording today of a J6 Marine who has been in jail for four years, and he was quite emotional at being released.
He sure sounded grateful to Trump.
Human? That’s being generous.
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