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Trump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if he’s elected

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 certifying 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. Some 140 members of law enforcement were injured as rioters attacked them with flagpoles, baseball bats, stun guns, bear spray and pepper spray.

Trump, during his conversation with Bell on Thursday morning, also said he met with some Jan. 6 defendants in his office this week and that he is helping some financially.

“I am financially supporting people that are incredible and they were in my office actually two days ago, so they’re very much in my mind,” Trump said. “It’s a disgrace what they’ve done to them. What they’ve done to these people is disgraceful.”

Link to the interview stream: https://rumble.com/v1i9mhh-president-donald-trump-joins-us-today.html
justanothername · 51-55, M
Trump has no ethics or morals. May he never be re elected to office ever again.

What the insurrectionists did was disgusting.
So basically, first Trump threatens that there will be violence if he’s not elected, now he’s bribing his supporters who still have folks locked up—"vote for me and I’ll pardon your loved ones." How crooked does someone have to be to not see that for what it is ?
😳
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
No responsibility for those who were killed. So he is condone this the attacks but previously he said he does not condone them. I think he is really unhinged now.
@Northwest Me, too. I understand Ashli was the true believer, her family less so.
Northwest · M
@bijouxbroussard She was mentally unstable and people took advantage of it.
SW-User
@Northwest I figure Babbitt's family loves him
windinhishair · 61-69, M
You can tell he is getting cornered, because he is preparing his Cult for another round of violence on his behalf, and lying about supporting some of them to make them believe he is on their side.
And yet he re "Truthed" a tweet this week that said the Jan 6th attackers were ANTIFA working with the FBI.
He says Jan 6th defendants were in his office but is that just one more lie to throw on his mountain of lies? Which defendants? If he gets caught lying about this what difference does it make?
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@SW-User He can't decide which lie to go with.
SW-User
@JimboSaturn that, and part of him is living simultaneously in The Upside Down ... perhaps with frequent side-switcher Lindsey Graham
@JimboSaturn The GQP base adapt to every new lie. This week Trump has been retweeting the most insane Q tweets on his site. That gets retweeted on Twitter. Then Fox reports this as a Trump post and the people who watch Fox believe this must be true. In reality it's the people on the fringes of society that posted some bullshit that coincides with a point Trump wants to make. "See everyone agrees with me."
bookerdana · M
There simply is no rock bottom low for him...its surrreal
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
The traitor has no surprises, only more treason.
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
there is another post going on with QAnon crap and biden laptop shit as we speak. All the crazies are using their usual name calling and angry memes
@JimboSaturn Yes. No change. Best to shake one's head and move on.
FWIW, here's a link to a "liberal" source for the quote.

Obviously, Trump can call it fake news and say he was misquoted or it wasn't him later if it suits him, but presumptively, he sure still seems to be up for attacking the rule of law when it gets in his way.

I kind of get the honesty there, somehow. Sure, he cowtows to being a member of the human race at times, but he's pretty consistent about putting himself above anything else.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/01/trump-jan-6-rioters-pardon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics
Northwest · M
@MistyCee His comments were on the air, recorded for everyone to hear.

https://rumble.com/v1i9mhh-president-donald-trump-joins-us-today.html

You can also go to her website, and pay $27 for made in China "let's go Brandon", and "FU 46" t-shirts.
@Northwest So was the Access Hollywood video, Russia are you listening, fine people on both sides, etc.

I'd put this on the same level at this point. He said it, he'll get the brownie points for it, and if it becomes inconvenient later to have said it, his followers will deny he said or meant it when cued to do so.
He has done the same when he was POTUS….somebody should track the hardened russi criminals and others that he pardoned…by trying to buy their loyalty.
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
That g-d ass...
SW-User
Holy sh-t wtf is wrong with him

Moreover this sounds like desperation to try to save his @ss

Furthermore, the FEC should now consider his candidacy officially declared, so the restrictions that implies can now kick in (which he has been trying avoid by not officially declaring yet)
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@MistyCee First president I've seen that hates his own government and federal instituitions . This isn't normal in other countries.
SW-User
He doesn't love his country at all

"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for me"

@JimboSaturn
@JimboSaturn Hopefully, it won't continue to happen here, but he's got millions of supporters who seem to hate their country, its institutions, and even the other half of its citizens, and 2020 was no landslide.

Its hard to reconcile Trump's contempt for others with the support he has from so many, but living here, but I daily face the fact that the guy giving me change is only motivated to do it right because he might not get away with ripping me off.
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JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
@Ynotisay Yes this provides ammunition to the committee that Trump did want an insurrection to take place- this is why I litterally think the man is nuts.

 
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