Republicans Suddenly Illiterate After Trump’s January 6 Pardons - Republicans are bending over backward to excuse Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists.

Malcolm Ferguson


Senate Majority Leader John Thune

Republican lawmakers are already shifting goalposts to justify Trump pardoning or commuting the sentences of nearly 1,600 January 6 insurrectionists—many of whom assaulted police officers, an issue Republicans hold near and dear.

When asked about the pardons, Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday pointed the finger at Joe Biden, stating that the former president opened the floodgates by pardoning his son Hunter, according to CNN’s Manu Raju.

“We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” Thune continued. “I think they were case-by-case.”

“I assume you’re asking me about the Biden pardons of his family,” said Senator Chuck Grassley, when asked by Semafor’s Burgess Everett. “I’m just talking about the Biden pardons, because that is so selfish.”

“I don’t know whether there were pardons given to individuals who assaulted police officers,” said Senator Susan Collins, “or whether there were pardons given to people who damaged property, who rummaged through desks, who broke windows in the Capitol. I disagree with those pardons if they were given.”

Pardons were indeed given to individuals who assaulted police officers. Senator Tommy Tuberville told Raju that he “didn’t see it,” referring to the pardons of people who attacked police officers.

Trump pardoned multiple Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, including one man who pepper-sprayed a Capitol Police officer and another who swung a baseball bat at one.

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[Dagoth AMOGUS]

You couldn’t possibly have hung low-hanging fruit any lower, Preacher

 

[Kim]

Perhaps if only people who were violent were tried and convicted he wouldn't have felt it pertinent to give a sweeping pardon? The vast majority of those 1600 didn't actually hurt anyone or anything.

 

[TowinKarz]

Speak for yourself, I'm openly celebrating....... and any RINO who was unprepared for this deserves to twist in the wind with their two-faced head until they get booted for actual leadership.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Perhaps if only the people who were violent were tried and convicted he wouldn't have felt it pertinent to give a sweeping pardon? The vast majority of those 1600 didn't actually hurt anyone.

Yeah, unlike these so-called peaceful protestors during the so-called summer of love.

 

[holyhandgrenade]

Only been in office one day and he’s already lowering the literacy rate? My nigga works fast.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Speak for yourself, I'm openly celebrating....... and any RINO who was unprepared for this deserves to twist in the wind with their two-faced head until they get booted for actual leadership.

Right on target and as the Joker might said to the RINOs:

 

[Preacher ✝]

You couldn’t possibly have hung low-hanging fruit any lower, Preacher

The salt is mining itself.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

You couldn’t possibly have hung low-hanging fruit any lower, Preacher

low hanging fruit is the daily bread of A&N.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Don't talk about the pardons and commutations Biden did for child murderers and his family, just days earlier.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Republican lawmakers are already shifting goalposts to justify Trump pardoning or commuting the sentences of nearly 1,600 January 6 insurrectionists—many of whom assaulted police officers, an issue Republicans hold near and dear.

How many of them were actually sentenced for assaulting law enforcement?

A genuine, unironic question. 1600 people were sentenced, I am actually curious what % of those had any sort of violent charge against them in the courts.

 

[Hitman One]

Who gives a shit about some bootlicking zogbot pig getting what he deserves.

I didn't think that the madman would go through with pardoning the Boomergeddon participants, I was wrong. The seethe has been immense, I might actually have sodium poisoning.

 

[God of Nothing]

And thus it begins.
What happened on that day is nothing compared to what Biden forgave.

 

[Ashkenazi Porn Actress]

Remember that Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have pardoned and commuted the sentences of actual ball to the wall terrorists like Oscar Lopez Rivera, Susan Rosenberg or the people involved in the 1954 Capital shooting whenever somebody whines about "muh violent J6 insurrectionists".

 

[TheRedChair]

Don't talk about the pardons and commutations Biden did for child murderers and his family, just days earlier.

His last blanket pardons were just a few hours before he left office.

 

[Strix454]

Remember that Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have pardoned and commuted the sentences of actual ball to the wall terrorists like Oscar Lopez Rivera, Susan Rosenberg or the people involved in the 1954 Capital shooting whenever somebody whines about "muh violent J6 insurrectionists".

Joe Biden released a man (leonard peltier) who was convicted of murdering two FBI agents from prison just a couple days ago.