Judges denounce Trump’s January 6 pardons as based on ‘revisionist myth’

You were very straightforward, you said you would pardon these people that were sentenced for January 6. You did. The only criticism or pushback I've seen is about people that were convicted or involved in incidents where they were violent with police. Why did they get a pardon?"

Hannity asked the President directly

But you shouldn't be able to invade the Capitol,

Hannity stated in rebuttal

For a number of reasons. They were in there for three and a half years, that's a long time. Many in solitary confinement, treated like nobody's ever been treated, treated so badly. They were treated like the worst criminals in history,

Trump answered

It is violating a way that we would like to see pardons thought about,

says Worthington

But it wasn't as if President Trump is forgiving Democrats who are on Biden's side,

says Enright

A pardon is an instance of mercy, of not giving the person the full extent of justice, but giving them less than society has said that they deserve,

says Everett Worthington, a psychologist and professor who has written five books on forgiveness

There's something sacred and noble about forgiving and mercy,

says Brandon Warmke, an associate professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University and co-editor of the book Forgiveness and Its Moral Dimensions

Tim Burchettrepresentative

Look what happened to the last four years with police, what happened with all the riots that took place all across the country?”

Burchett griped

Jim AcostacNN anchor

Congressman, you’re engaging in a game of whataboutism,

Acosta said, spurring more crosstalk

Good to be here for my weekly beating from you all at CNN,

he said with a smile

This is not Fox News,

the anchor told his dodging guest in an exchange that went viral on X, formerly called Twitter, Wednesday

Don Baconthe Nebraska Republican

It’s a lot of going backwards,

Don Bacon, a Republican who won his Nebraska district by fewer than 8,000 votes, told CNN

No one should excuse violence. And particularly violence against police officers,

Mitch McConnell, the former Republican Senate leader, told Semafor

It cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power,

Chutkan wrote, in an order to dismiss the case of John Banuelo, who was accused of rioting on January 6 but was among the 1,500 people pardoned by Trump

No ‘national injustice’ occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election,

Howell wrote in an eight-page order issued in the case of two January 6 defendants

They’ll feel like they can because there is no leadership in the United States that tries to stop it,

said Farnam, who now runs a private investigative agency

I’m just a working man, dude. People like us don’t get presidential pardons,

he said

The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed. None of the events of January 6 would have happened without him,

the panel said

Gather the entire federal judiciary into a stadium. Then have them listen and watch while the judges are beaten to death,

one wrote

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!”

Angeli-Chansley took to the social media platform X to celebrate after the pardons