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As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,
the president said during his inaugural address
Joe Biden has very bad advisers. Somebody advised Joe Biden to give pardons to everybody but him … Joe Biden had very bad advice,
Trump saidI’m happy that the president’s focusing not on retribution and focusing on success, but I will tell you that I’m not going to play by those rules,
he saidAnd the other thing is this, ... Some of those people with the police, true, but they were very minor incidents, okay? You know that they get built up by that couple of fake guys that are on CNN all the time. They were very minor incidents. And it was time."
Trump said
I want to be clear. When I say I am sorry, or I apologize to those officers that were assaulted and those members of Congress that were scared, I want to be clear
Tarrio saidI wish I had Trump on speed dial,
Tarrio saidI'm gonna apologize for nothing. There is absolutely nothing I will apologize for. Because I did nothing wrong, the Proud Boys did nothing wrong and American patriots did nothing wrong."
Tarrio, during a press conference in Doral, Florida after being released from prisonThe jury spoke, the judge spoke and they found [Tarrio] guilty. He was contrite in court, clearly now he has less contrition. I think it's really important that the entire population of the American public be very clear-eyed about the fact that the pardoning, particularly of the violent individuals from J6, constitutes state-sponsored terrorism.... I know he says he doesn't condone violence. But that's quite frankly BS."
Former Department of Homeland Security official Donell Harvin, reacting to Tarrio's interview on CNNEnrique Tarrio should not be free. [Oath Keepers founder] Stewart Rhodes should not be free. 5,000 Taliban should not be free. Trump sets a lot of terrorists free."
Troy Matthews, a senior writer for the progressive media outlet Meidas Touch, in a post on Bluesky.jpg)
I don’t want to speak to specific pardons not knowing any details,
Kemp said
Anyone who harms a law enforcement officer should be held fully accountable for their actions, and presidents should not issue blanket, preemptive pardons for their family members in the final minutes of their tenure,
Kemp said in a statement to CNN FridayFor me, watching the Biden inauguration from my cell in solitary confinement after they threw the felonies on me, and they hung 25 years over my head, I had a very similar feeling to what Francis Scott Key felt
Chansley explained
If you look and watch my behavior on that day inside the building and outside, I actually was a force for peace.
While he did enter the Capitol building and was repeatedly photographed inside, he saysYou guys have no idea what it's like to sit in solitary confinement and have the full weight of the government and the media coming down on you; having literally millions of people in your own country screaming for your head,
he told DailyMail.comLook at the people that Joe Biden pardoned and then come and talk to me.
To those opposing his pardon, his message is bluntIt is bad spiritual hygiene, don't hold on to regret, don't hold on to anger, don't hold on to resentment
Chansley addedGod's given me the ability to see the future on occasion, and there are ways in which this prescient vision has given me the opportunity to glimpse moments in space and time that most people couldn't see coming
What he did not expect was for events to unfold as they did – telling DailyMail.comI love you, owe you one,
Chansley said in a message to the new presidentI believe that we were all over prosecuted and those people were under prosecuted
He addedThey were just talking about communication and authoritarian styles of speech in the Trump age,
said Raskin, one of several members of Congress to receive an 11th-hour pre-emptive pardon from Joe Biden for their work on a bipartisan committee that investigated the 6 January 2021 insurrection, and which Trump had threatened with retribution