Posted on 01/22/2025 3:56:20 AM PST by karpov
Republicans are busy denouncing President Biden’s pre-emptive pardons for his family and political allies, and deservedly so. But then it’s a shame you don’t hear many, if any, ruing President Trump’s proclamation to pardon unconditionally nearly all of the people who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. This includes those convicted of bludgeoning, chemical spraying, and electroshocking police to try to keep Mr. Trump in power. Now he’s springing them from prison.
This is a rotten message from a President about political violence done on his behalf, and it’s a bait and switch. Asked about Jan. 6 pardons in late November, Mr. Trump projected caution. “I’m going to do case-by-case, and if they were nonviolent, I think they’ve been greatly punished,” he said. “We’re going to look at each individual case.”
Taking cues from the boss, last week Vice President JD Vance drew a clear line: “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
So much for that. The President’s clemency proclamation commutes prison sentences to time served for 14 named people, including prominent leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who were organized and ready for violence. Then Mr. Trump tries to wipe Jan. 6 clean, with “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals.” The conceit is that there are hundreds of polite Trump supporters who ended up in the wrong place that day and have since rotted in jail.
Out of roughly 1,600 cases filed by the feds, more than a third included accusations of “assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement.” The U.S. Attorney’s office said it declined “hundreds” of prosecutions against people whose only offense was entering restricted grounds near the Capitol.
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And what would they have gotten if they had beaten cops on the street?
Quite likely they served their time.
If you believe that J6 was a setup, and Trump does and so do most, then what other option was there?
Too bad, so sad. The j6 jailers and dirty cops can ESAD.
Find me ONE 2020 rioter who assaulted a cop that served even 1 year.
And as We would expect to see anything from the ball-less sleaze urinal editorial scum that is nothing but LIES...
Just MORE FLAPPING LIPS FROM THE A$$M€D!A !!!
“New footage from January 6, 2021, released by Speaker Mike Johnson, reveals that Capitol Police fired rubber bullets and other projectiles without warning into the non-violent crowd that was peacefully protesting outside of the Capital building, inciting chaos and confusion.” Katie Daviscourt
Definition of Non-violent J6 prisoners:
Any protester who was non-violent before the Capital police fired rubber bullets without warning into them while outside of the Capital building.
The legal proceedings against the J6ers was a sham.
Michael Byrd got a medal for shooting Ashley Babbit. GFY NY Post.
Sorry WSJ.
YES, youre right
Woah, from the WSJ editorial board? Who is the anonymous skunk giving the WSJ it’s signature position?
Please boycott the WSJ. Stop supporting globalism. Thank you.
How much time would they have served if they’d SHOT an unarmed woman and KILLED her?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SHOT+an+unarmed+woman+ashley+babbit&ia=web
I patiently wait for the Wall Street Journal to do an in depth report on Biden pardoning Leonard Peltier and the Kids for cash judges who literally caused people to commit suicide over their sentences. Think that will never happen.
A commutation is NOT a pardon. One would think the WSJ would know the difference...
Cop beaters. Somebody been hittin’ da happy smoke.
The Wall Street Journal has really gone of the left deep end.
“ So much for that. The President’s clemency proclamation commutes prison sentences…”
Notice how the headline DOES NOT TELL THE TRUTH in saying pardon rather than commutes.
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