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I’m just a working man, dude. People like us don't get presidential pardons,
He did not have to do this. He had a lot of opposition within his own party,
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’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 It’s not my place. It’s the president’s sole decision, and he made a decision so I stand with him on it,
the Louisiana Republican told reporters Tuesday night after previously declining to comment I think we need to continue to say we are a party of law and order,
I have my personal feelings on it, but the American people have chosen to move on, and President Trump, it’s his prerogative to do this. ... I get what you’re saying about the violent crime; however, that is still the president’s prerogative, just like it was Joe Biden’s prerogative,
the Oklahoma Republican said on “OutFront.” 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 I’m the friend of police more than any president that’s ever been in this office,
President Biden obviously with his preemptive pardons has opened it up even more, so the president has that authority. That sort of is my opinion on it,
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 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 I think obviously the pardon authority has really been opened up.”
Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, said Well, only for one reason: They’ve served years in jail. They should not have served — excuse me — and they’ve served years in jail. ... These were people that actually love our country, so we thought a pardon would be appropriate.”
Asked Tuesday why Vance’s assertion was wrong, Trump said No, the opposite.”
Asked once more whether the pardons were sending a message that assaulting officers is OK, Trump said 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,
This will have powerful future consequences for normalizing political violence, because many of those he has granted clemency to are an ongoing threat for political violence in the future,
Weak people wanted hyper-sanitized action for the J6 hostages,
said Charlie Kirk, the leader of rightwing youth group Turning Point As many supporters of President Trump recognize, for a president who ran on combating crime and reestablishing law and order to pardon hundreds convicted of assaulting law enforcement and otherwise engaging in violence would be hypocritical and dangerous,
a press release about the poll said This is going beyond rewriting what January 6 was,
said Robert Pape, the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats at the University of Chicago who has studied January 6 defendants
