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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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 · 56-60, M

@SW-User He would rather tear his country apart than lose power. He is a very dangerous man.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@JimboSaturn This is it exactly. Millions of deaths are nothing to him as long as he personally benefits. And that has always been true. I told a good friend of mine this before the 2016 election. Little did I realize that with his deliberate malfeasance in handling covid, this would literally come true.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@windinhishair He doesn't love his country at all. Usually people step down if its in the best interest of their country or organization. Let alone lose an election

SW-User

@windinhishair Trump is literally a narcissist and sociopath as devoid of conscience as Anton Chigurh

MistyCee

@SW-User The FEC is pretty much useless, much like Trump wants to render the rest of the Government when it doesn't do his bidding.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, 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

MistyCee

@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.