At texas rally Trump suggests that if he is reelected, he will pardon Jan. 6 Capitol rioters
Trump really gets more dangerous as the days go by--and nobody seems to know how to stop him--nor do they seem to want to stop him.
Trump suggests that if he is reelected, he will pardon Jan. 6 Capitol rioters
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/trump-jan6-protesters/
By Tyler Pager
Yesterday at 11:32 p.m. EST
CONROE, Texas — Former president Donald Trump suggested Saturday night he will pardon the rioters charged in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol if he is elected president in 2024.
Trump, who has teased but not confirmed another run for president, has repeatedly criticized the prosecution of individuals who violently stormed the Capitol to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s election as president. But his comments at a Texas rally on Saturday marked the first time he dangled pardons, an escalation of his broader effort to downplay the deadly events of Jan. 6.
Some of those involved in the riot held out hope for a Trump pardon before he left office 14 days later, but none were granted.
“If I run and I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly,” he said near the end of a lengthy campaign rally in Conroe, a city about 40 miles north of Houston. “We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
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Trump also bashed the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, as he continued to spread baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
“This hasn’t happened to all of the other atrocities that took place recently,” he said. “Nothing like this has happened. What that ‘unselect’ committee is doing and what the people are doing that are running those prisons, it’s a disgrace.”
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Former president Trump suggests pardoning those charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection if he were to run and win the presidency in 2024, via
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Former president Donald Trump speaks during a “Save America” rally in Conroe, Tex., on Jan. 29, 2022. (Michael Stravato/For The Washington Post)
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he threw them under the bus but now that HE is in trouble...........
