Posted on 01/22/2025 2:15:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
As is often the case, the Wall Street Journal editorial board is straying from its lane to admonish Republicans and Trump supporters in a way that demonstrates the paper’s impressive capacity for shallowness.
The Journal on Tuesday joined the New York Times and the Washington Post in running editorials attacking President Trump for his sweeping pardons of Jan. 6 defendants and convicts. The paper called the pardons “a rotten message from a President about political violence done on his behalf” and decried them as a “stain” on his legacy. That’s more or less exactly what the Times and the Post said, but it’s useful to see that even an influential publication tangentially aligned with the political right can be so lacking in originality and acuity.
True, the pardons are specific to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, which included violent rioting, trespassing, and obstruction of official government business. But just as that day didn’t happen in a vacuum, the pardons aren’t exclusively related to the conduct of the people receiving them.
Any discussion about Jan. 6, 2021, has to start with Nov. 8, 2016. Trump was elected, and the following four years were absolute hell for the people who supported him. The “Resistance” — including the national news media, the intelligence community, and the federal bureaucracy — worked day in and day out to thwart the agenda Trump was elected to enact. They manufactured fake scandals (Russiagate), gaslit the public (the white supremacy hoax), and lied about virtually everything.
Then we entered 2020, the year Americans were told they couldn’t work, couldn’t visit loved ones, and couldn’t host funerals for the departed. No church, no school, no weddings, no birthdays. No proms or graduation...
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I think that once the prisoners get to tell their stories we might be looking at it differently. The constant insistence that it was a violent uprising is justification for there lack of investigation in the reporting which was basically printing what they were told by the government and embellishing it based on their own beliefs. Never give up the con.
I thought the only violence was on the part of the government attacking and murdering (Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland) peaceful protesters. This kind of thuggery is what is expected in 3rd world dictatorships and communist hellholes. Shocking it occurred in Washington DC.
It's tragic that those shipped off to the gulags under Stalin didn't have someone like Trump to protect them.
One of the last things Biden did was commute the life sentence of Leonard Peltier who murdered 2 FBI agents.
But the fake news isn’t even talking about this, and instead is pretending to care about J6’s who attacked police.
And at least one J6 who was convicted of ‘attacking police’ was convicted after the officers bodycam showed he hadn’t and the officer, on the stand, said he hadn’t. That’s the sort of ‘judges’ that are infesting DC.
That’s that snuck Harry Dunn, saw him flapping his marxist mouth today, ghetto thug.
It was about unlawful imprisonment for non-violent crimes such as trespassing and being held as political prisoners in a Gulag type jail system where defendants were denied even the most basic legal rights. Some had been held nearly four years without a trial or access to legal counsel.
There was a peaceful protest. When they did not perform as needed for the cameras, the DC Police police stepped in and conducted a Police Riot to provoke the crowd.
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So, pardoning those who participated in a riot the left claimed, wrongly, was insurrection is a stain, but pardoning a mass murderer who’s made billions on his illegal acts is fine. Pardoning grandma and grandpa who walked around inside the ropes is a stain, but pardoning child sex traffickers isn’t. Got it. Leftists are complete bottom feeding scum.
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