Why the President didn’t pardon the January 6, 2016 attack on the U.S. Capitol, even though he was convicted of a seditious conspiracy
The president said many of the people he pardoned for the attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago were serving excessive sentences.
His order included a pardon for Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, as well as a commutation for former Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who like Tarrio was convicted for the rarely used charge of seditious conspiracy.
Trump sought to sidestep criticism about the pardons, saying that his supporters were prosecuted and sent to prison even though “you have murderers who aren’t charged all over.”
Murderers have no time. You look at some district attorneys. They go after political opponents, but not the people that shoot people in the street.
At the same time, he sought to redirect criticism to former President Joe Biden for his decision in the final moments of his term to grant preemptive pardons to members of Congress and staff who served on the Jan. 6 committee, as well as to several members of his family.
“Many of them, probably it was the right thing to do, they made a bad choice,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. “But anybody who was convicted of assault on a police officer, I just can’t get there at all. I think it was a bad idea.”
I do not support giving pardons to people who engage in violence on January 6, including assault on police, and breaking windows.
Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski stated that she was disappointed by the decision and that she feared the messages that would be sent to the men and women who stood by us.
“I think it’s horrifying,” Elmore said. It’s against everything the country is supposed to represent. It’s against the law. Those people were found guilty of their crimes.”
He thinks the rioters should serve their time if they weren’t told to do anything and they didn’t follow any of the rules. I think it’s a slap in the face of the law establishment. People have to serve time. They should do that as well.
The January investigations and prosecutions were referred to as a “national injustice” by the pardon that Trump issued Monday night.
Six out of 10 Americans disapproved of Trump’s decision to pardon the people involved in the January 6 insurrection, according to a recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
Mauro, an Iowa resident who voted for Trump in the last three elections, told NPR that he knows people that attended peaceful rallies in Washington on the day of the insurrection. He does not believe that everyone at the Capitol should be locked up.
“It’s tough to reconcile that,” he said. “I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of people that are upset about the Jan. 6 people. I can understand what’s happening. But if they didn’t physically accost a police officer, I have no problem with them.”
Why the Capitol incident caused so many deaths during the campaign of November 11, 2016? Comment on the testimony of Maryland Rep. Mary Ann Perruzzi
Republican voter in Massachusetts, Mary Ann Perruzzi, believes that Democrats are to blame for the Capitol incident because of conspiracy theories she read on social media.
When asked about the violence against law enforcement that day, Perruzzi denied any Trump supporters were responsible — despite public information linking many of the assailants to right-wing groups.
Deborah Elmore is an independent voter who voted for Trump in 2016 but has since become critical of him and the GOP. She said she does not understand why so many people are in favor of Trump.
She said she was sick of seeing the images of the policemen being hit in the door of the Capitol and how people used the flag to beat other people.
Brown had quite a few jobs throughout his life. One of those jobs had an officer in Washington D.C. Many of the individuals Trump pardoned were convicted of violence against police. And Brown said letting them free amounts to an “abuse of power” and a “miscarriage of justice.”
He said he voted for President Trump in the presidential election because immigration was one of his key issues and he felt he didn’t know enough about the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris.