The January 6th mess is still unfolding after four years. While delivering some remarks to a press gaggle on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump made some statements about the January 6th defendants and that event overall. He has promised “major pardons” for some of the J6 defendants, which is sure to stir up the left.
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🚨Trump on J6: “I will be making major pardons.” pic.twitter.com/gaietjjiIz
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The President-elect replied to a question on the topic from a member of the press gaggle:
Q: First, you said, on your first day in office, you are going to pardon January 6th defendants. Are you planning to pardon those who are charged with violent offenses?
Trump: Well, we’re looking at it, we have other people in there, as you see, 24 or 28 people who came now from the FBI, that came out very quietly, nobody reported it. But they had people who were in some form related to the FBI, they had four or five people who were strongly related to the FBI, we have to find out about that. We have to find out about Hezbollah, we have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing, because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted. I see it all the time, you see it too. People that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted, and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now. So, we’ll be looking at the whole thing. I’ll be making major pardons.
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These statements are sure to set off a firestorm of whining from the left, but it’s a safe bet that the President-elect doesn’t much care about what the left thinks.
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It’s unclear what the President-elect meant when he brought up Hezbollah. As of this writing, there isn’t any confirmed indication that Hezbollah or any other jihadi group was involved in the January 6th events in any way. It is, however, past time a proper investigation was done into the events of that day four years ago. Ashli Babbitt’s death, for one thing, was never properly investigated or accounted for. This is, presumably, one of the bad things that the President-elect is referring to.
It has been four years. There are people still in custody for acts that are arguably no worse than hooliganism. It’s time this matter was closed out, and if some liberally applied presidential pardons will free the people who committed no acts of violence, then that’s what should be done.
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