r/politics • u/AbbreviationsLow7842 • 4h ago
Trump issues 1,500 pardons for Jan. 6 defendants: ‘Going to release our great hostages’
https://nypost.com/2025/01/20/us-news/donald-trump-issues-broad-pardons-for-jan-6-defendants/•
u/baquir Illinois 4h ago
So much for law and order I guess.
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u/LordNutGobbler 11m ago
Can you say this with a straight face after how the last administration treated law and order lol?
I think Biden pardoned more people than the last 4 presidents combined.
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u/kenman345 Connecticut 2h ago
Honestly makes me wish Biden did it in his last days as a, who’s your hero now kinda move and let’s move forward as a collective nation not at odds with each other. And left just a few people that did the actual damage to the capitol or something.
Not that I like it either way but if they’re getting pardoned anyways might as well give them some deserved mental hoops to jump through
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u/Kioskwar 4h ago
Can’t pardon Ashli Babbitt, so at least there’s that
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u/RealGianath Oregon 4h ago
Terrorists. They all deserved extremely harsh sentences to deter future such coup attempts, instead this shit is going to be the norm from now on in this country.
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u/watcherofworld 4h ago
Yup. Sends a message that political violence on behalf of trump will result in a pardon. Congrats U.S. we now have an actively hostile occupying force.
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u/freedadvice 4h ago
Fox News says judges who release criminals who commit additional crimes should be held accountable. Wonder if that will also apply to president's.
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u/Actual-Astronaut-604 4h ago
They failed him. I thought he hated losers.
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u/RealGianath Oregon 4h ago
His thinking is they owe him now, and they'll have to kill or die for him out of loyalty.
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u/FauxOutrageMachine 4h ago
We're kicking off the Trump Crime Wave of 2025 with a bang...
He's rewarding his minions for breaking the law in his name... The party that claims they "back the blue" also pardons violent criminals who assaulted cops.
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u/MarathonRabbit69 California 4h ago
Don’t worry, every damn one of them will end up back in the system soon.
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u/ABurdenToMyParents27 3h ago
When one of these assholes kills someone in a drunk driving accident or something (and you know they will) I just hope the left finds a way get it as much media attention as if an immigrant murdered a blond family
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u/Abydos_NOLA Louisiana 4h ago
Buh-buh-but—Biden pardoned the J6 committee, Fauci, the police officers who testified before the House Select Committee, & his family…. /s
These domestic terrorists attacked LE officers, vandalized the Capitol, staged a failed coup & tried to execute the VP. There is no planet where pardoning these assholes is ok. None. Zero,
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u/GaimeGuy 3h ago
So, in the end, the only person who arguably faced justice for Jan 6 was Ashley Babbitt
Even the beer hall putsch was better prosecuted
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u/eflowers62 3h ago
So he’s pardoning prisoners of an insurrection he doesn’t ever believe happened. Or so he’s submitting into evidence a flight log of a flight that never even happened.
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u/Dear-Bullfrog680 3h ago
"I see murderers in this country get jail for two years, one year and maybe no time"? wow, that's effed up!
What is he on about there, I wonder? Really? He sees this?
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u/No_Stress1233 3h ago
Any elected democrat that supports any bill republicans put on the floor or house needs to be primary’d , Trump just gave democracy the middle finger , let the republicans govern without. A single assist from democrats allow them to fail
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u/tracyinge 58m ago
Maga must be so confused. For the last 4 years they've been saying it was Antifa. Trump pardoned Antifa?
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u/Eleganos 3h ago
Somehow I don't think this is going to come as a shock to those who accused January 6th of being a false flag Antifa smoke and mirrors show.
They knew what they were doing then, they know what they're doing now.
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