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

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MistyCee

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.

MistyCee

@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.