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It’s hard to look at the situation and not to say there is a large component of politics here,
Robinson said
In my thirty-seven years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream.”
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, pointedly took on the fabrications in a sentencing opinion a year ago, writingThe resources expended by the FBI and DOJ to prosecute the average J6er was insane,
said a lawyer who declined to be named because he regularly deals with the Justice Department
The whataboutism doesn’t work here.” ... Pardons are most appropriate for people who have paid their debt to society, have shown contrition and remorse, have accepted responsibility and who have earned grace. None of that seems to have been part of Trump’s equation.”
But Chuck Rosenberg, a former U.S. attorney and an NBC News contributor who agreed that some of Biden’s pardons were deeply problematic, said ... He addedThe guys with real violence, real planning, weapons, etc. — those pardons are ugly and bad,
said the lawyer who regularly deals with the Justice DepartmentObviously he didn’t listen to me. It’s not good for the country, and it’s not good for the president.”
He told NBC NewsOnce I got a sense of what hell they lived through and how much they put up with to try to stand ground for this country, the cases really became about so much about vindicating them as victims,
he continuedThat could really drive people out,
the first official saidThe department spent a lot of time and money prosecuting these cases. All that is for naught. Talk about government waste, right?”
he saidObviously anyone involved in a violent crime to me it’s somewhat disappointing that they would get a full pardon,
he saidSo speaking just for myself, no regrets about the effort we made to build these cases, and even after these pardons, the record stands,
he saidHave to think about what it means for those officers and their loved ones to receive this message that those assaults don’t matter, that attacking police officers like that is OK,
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1,600 pardons for J6ers who were arrested,
Ingraham said
The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”
In a text made public, Ingraham told Trump’s chief of staff Mark MeadowsThis was the greatest hits of Donald Trump, and he enjoyed every minute.”
In summing up Trump’s post-inauguration rush of executive orders and pardons, Ingraham exclaimed