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What we should be focusing on is the Biden pardons,
Kansas Sen Roger Marshall said angrily as reporters asked him about the clemency for Jan 6 rioters How come everybody’s asking me about January 6th? Aren’t you going to ask me about the Biden pardons?”
asked Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa It’s a hard one, because we work with them up here,
Tuberville said of the Capitol Police who were beaten by the rioters and guard lawmakers every day I don’t disagree with him at all,
They’ve served years in jail. And murderers don’t even go to jail in this country,
Their lives have been ruined,
All I can say is that I think it’s a sad commentary on where we are as a nation that a sitting president thought it necessary to issue a preemptive pardon to a witness in a congressional investigation, because the subject to that investigation is now the president and had promised to pursue politically motivated revenge. Again, it’s just more examples of the outrageous behavior of the current president of the United States,
I feel that my brother died in vain, and that our nation has a very long and dark road ahead of it,
It pulls at my heart, it makes me upset, it makes me angry. How could people sit there and watch what happened that day and say they're okay with what happened
Dunn said on MSNBC's Morning Joe I think that Republican Party owns a monopoly on hypocrisy when it comes to supporting or their supposed support of law enforcement, because, tonight, the leader of the Republican Party pardoned hundreds of violent cop assaulters,
These are some of the violent criminals and felons who assaulted police officers and attacked our democracy on January 6th. President Trump claims to be a president of law and order, but then lets cop beaters and killers walk free. It's disgusting and wrong."
Representative Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat who outlined some of the violent offenders pardoned by Trump, including Dempsey, wrote on X (formerly Twitter Unlike other rioters who slowly pushed their way through the crowd towards the Capitol, Dempsey climbed atop his fellow rioters, using them like human scaffolding, thrusting himself to the front,
Any compassion or empathy I felt toward those who laid siege to our Capitol, whose actions I felt were at least in part influenced by their leader, Donald Trump, and his lies, has been eroded — eroded by the attacks directed at me and my family by supporters of Donald Trump and the right-wing media.”
Before he was sentenced, Fanone said, in part You’re Trump’s worst mistake of 2016,
Quaglin told McFadden in a lengthy statement at his sentencing On at least a dozen occasions, Quaglin stood face-to-face with officers as he screamed at, pushed with outstretched arms, punched, swatted, and slapped officers; pushed bike racks into officers; and even choked one officer to the ground,
prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo So if you want to know where Ryan Nichols stands, Ryan Nichols stands for violence,
he said in a video cited by prosecutors I will f---ing die for this,
Nichols said on video after the attack I’m going to do case-by-case, and if they were non-violent, I think they’ve been greatly punished,
We pardoned people that were treated unbelievably poorly.”
These people have already served years in prison and and they’ve served them viciously. It’s a disgusting prison. It’s been horrible. It’s inhumane. It’s been a terrible, terrible thing ... so these people have already served a long period of time, and I made a decision to give a pardon.”
Turning the subject back to the violent criminals who assaulted police and sacked the US Capitol in a futile effort to stop certification of former president Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, Trump continued