Donald Trump says he plans to pardon US Capitol attack participants if elected

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump said on Thursday he would pardon and apologize to those who participated in the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6 if he were elected to the White House again.

“I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” he told Wendy Bell, a conservative radio host on Thursday. “I will be looking very, very strongly about pardons, full pardons.”

Related: ‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy

Five people died in connection with the attack and more than 140 law enforcement officers were injured. More than 875 people have been charged with crimes related to January 6, according to an NPR tracker. 370 people have pleaded guilty to crimes so far.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-says-he-plans-to-pardon-us-capitol-attack-participants-if-elected/ar-AA11n5jD

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No apologies to the people killed. Keep on talking dumbass. You're so full of yourself you don't see you're self-destructing.

[First Speaker]

1. Nothing Trump says or does will destroy him...

...a third of the country worships him, and that's all there is to it. This includes a solid plurality of GOP voters. If he hasn't self-destructed by now, he never will...

[70sEraVet]

2. Well, that will nail down the White-Nationalist vote.

But he already had that.

[Initech]

3. They don't care. They just want power.

And they're not going to use it for good.

[ificandream]

11. Exactly.

[Harker]

4. As if I needed any more reasons not to vote for him.

That must be number 396,733.

[msongs]

5. so is this an announcement that he is running? nt

[Fritz67]

6. The Law and Order Party, everybody!!!

[electric_blue68]

21. More like The Extreme Laws and Disorder Party

cause he & repugs would would cause more disorder amongst vunerable populations. 😔🤬

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. F*ck him. He will never get the chance.

n/t

[Obvious85]

8. Criminals can't pardon people from prison

silly goose

[bahboo]

9. I wouldn't hold my breath if I was a J6 participant...

orange piece of shit will never be elected again...

[Evolve Dammit]

10. More seditionist, traitorous garbage. LOCK HIM UP!

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Not to mention - himself!

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. Wait, I thought they were claiming these were ANTIFA agents

Being MAGA means believing contradictory things at the same time.

[Bayard]

14. Never happen, Shit-For-Brains

More promises his magats will fall for, from a guy who couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it.

Claiming violent insurrectionists should be pardoned is sheer lunacy. But then, we knew that.

[Aussie105]

15. There is something wrong with that boy . . .

Major bad move, dumbass!

This is just going to invigorate the forces currently trying to neutralize him permanently.
(And that is a good thing.)

[orangecrush]

16. +1

[Martin68]

17. IF

[Martin68]

18. Well, duh!

[Mrhyde719]

19. I kept waiting

And expecting Biden to mention this in tonight’s speech. Would have put more emphasis on how dangerous the cult is

[niyad]

20. Stroke out already, you F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR**.

[Rural_Progressive]

22. I showed this article to Yoda, this was his response

"Strong in this one delusion is. Hrmmm."

[tirebiter]

23. Just stop him from doing it or anything else including catching dogs

Don’t elect him to anything. Can’t think of an easier way to be done with him.

[Linda Ed]

24. Head of Russian oil giant dies after falling from hospital window

should be noted that he out against Putin and paid for it with his life. Anyone ever known of any hospital that had windows that could open?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Trump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected

The GOP is running on the platform that insurgents and attempting to overthrow the county is a good thing

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/01/trump-jan-6-rioters-pardon/

Former president Donald Trump said he would issue full pardons and a government apology to rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and violently attacked law enforcement to stop the democratic transfer of power.

“I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” he told conservative radio host Wendy Bell on Thursday morning. Such a move would be contingent on Trump running and winning the 2024 presidential election.

Supporters of the former president attacked the Capitol as Congress was confirming Joe Biden’s electoral college win in the 2020 election, the worst attack on the seat of democracy in more than two centuries. The insurrection left four people dead, and an officer who had been sprayed with a powerful chemical irritant, Brian D. Sicknick, suffered a stroke and died the next day. About 140 members of law enforcement were injured as rioters attacked them with flagpoles, baseball bats, stun guns, bear spray and pepper spray.....

Trump has raised the prospect of pardons in previous interviews, as well, but the notion of an apology and financial support is a new element.

The former president, who has not officially announced a 2024 presidential bid but is expected to do so, said that, if “I decide to run, and if I win, I will be looking very, very strongly about pardons, full pardons.”

“That is probably going to be best, because even if they go for two months or six months [to jail], they have sentences that could go a lot longer than that,” he said.

[Martin Eden]

26. Criminal pledges to pardon criminals if elected

Sounds like a good campaign strategy for a primary election in today's Law and Order party.

[BootinUp]

27. I laughed, cuz that will never happen. nt

[Turbineguy]

28. They mean: "elected".

[intrepidity]

29. That's all any D needs to campaign on, imho. nt

[louis-t]

30. Funny, what will end up being 1,000 in prison for this, most

will not be able to vote for him.