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I hope anybody who’s going to be critical of what occurred last night is also very critical of a massive overreach by President Biden’s prospective pardons,
I understand why they feel that way,
House Republicans are celebrating pardons issued to a bloodthirsty mob that violently assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021. What happened to backing the Blue?”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said in a statement Everybody’s asking me about J6,
said Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa He keeps his campaign promises,
Would you guys ask the same questions of Biden?”
Thune said when asked what message this sends to officers who were attacked that day I just can’t agree,
Tillis said of Trump’s actions I do not believe those individuals warrant clemency,
I’m grateful President Trump is the president of the United States
Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana and former chairman of the Senate’s campaign arm, would only say I don’t think that the approach of a blanket pardon that includes those who caused harm, physical harm, to our police officers, to others that resulted in violence, I’m disappointed to see that,
I think we need to continue to say we are a party of law and order,
I’m a big ‘back-the-blue’ guy. I think people who assault police officers — if they do the crime, they should do the time.”
Cassidy, who is up for reelection and facing a primary, told CNN I just can’t agree” with Trump’s decision to commute the sentences or pardon a vast swath of January 6 insurrection participants
Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, who has warned before about giving a blanket pardon to the rioters, said We’re looking at the future, not the past
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, sidestepped questions about the pardons, saying It seems to me the press ought to be paying attention to this as well: preemptively granting pardons to five more members of his family, and we had the incoming president pardoning people who committed violent crimes,
Clearly, with the sheer number, there were people that got swept up in it, and I'm okay if they did something dumb in the heat of the moment. That's one thing. But look, you make this place less safe if you send the signal that police officers could potentially be assaulted and there is no consequence. It's pretty straight forward to me,
I do not support pardons given to people who engaged in violence on January 6, including assaulting police officers, or breaking windows to get into the Capitol, for example,
Trash everywhere. Doors and windows smashed and breached. Cops viciously attacked. Feces smeared on the walls of our national symbol. I was there on January 6. One of the last people on the House Floor. It was a disgrace. Pardoning the traitors and terrorists who did it is an endorsement of political violence and rioting."
Representative Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on X (formerly Twitter This has been a terrible week for our justice system. Violence must never be tolerated in America,
The difference here is whether you agree or disagree about what President Trump’s going to do, he told the American public ahead of time,
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