Vice President-elect JD Vance just provided the clearest explanation yet of the Trump administration‘s plans to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, telling “Fox News Sunday” that while there’s “a little bit of a gray area there,” those who committed violence during the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack “obviously” shouldn’t be pardoned. Those who protested “peacefully,” however, can expect to have their records wiped clean.
“I think it’s very simple,” the former Ohio senator said. “If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
Vance’s comments provide a stark contrast to what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying over the past few months, with the future POTUS providing little to no details about who would get the pardons he’s been promising except declaring that protesters who assaulted Capitol police officers “had no choice” that day.
Such a strange feeling to agree with JD Vance.
I also feel that if you stood outside the building and peacefully protested, you shouldn’t be charged with a crime.
Unlike JD, I’m not willing to assume that the government wasted any time prosecuting innocent protestors, when there were so many guilty as sin insurrectionists who needed to be thrown in jail.
Of course, if they have any evidence of misconduct by prosecutors that didn’t get pulled from a magat ass, it should be considered.
Pretty sure all of the ones that were convicted were involved in more than peaceful protest. I don’t think there’s anyone currently in prison that meets Vance’s criteria for a pardon.
He’s just mad that they harmed couches and other furniture
Wouldn’t it be absolutely delicious to find out that Vance has been playing double agent all along instead of just turncoat? That his whole plan was to butter up Trump just so he could get close to him?
I’m not holding out much hope that he’s still anything other than a huge pile of shit… Still…
Vance is 100% on the tech bro oligarchs side, not the MAGA fanatics side.
Well I do always hold to the “whatever they accuse the democrats of, is what either they are planning or already doing”. Anyone remember talking about how it was a coup when Biden’s VP threw him out to pasture.
Bottom line is, far as the project 2025 goal… trump’s entire responsibility was to win the election… Once votes don’t matter, he’s actually more of a liability because his brain is sludge… and he still has an ego that makes him easy to manipulate and a risk of doing things because they are popular even if they don’t fit the agenda.
I would be extremely unsuprised if shortly after being sworn in, trump were 25thed.
Vance is much much worse than trump.
I disagree. While Vance has his own different and awful ideas he doesn’t have the same level of popularity to pull it off. Trump’s manner and weird charisma have constantly gotten his followers to accept his bizarre actions… while Vance might want to enact much more directly damaging policies his constant shit eating grin and elitism would cause him to rapidly lose support if Trump wasn’t there.
Vance is like 98% smarm and 2% bully.
Vance is backed by thiel. Thiel is bff with elon. There’s a reason all the tech bros are falling in line.
And it doesn’t matter if trump has the popularity when all it takes is choking on one bite of a big mac to make Vance president.
He’s the sacrificial goat. I expect him to only ever deliver the bad news.
well trup got no punishment so I figure he’s at the fuck you got mine stage of things.
Known liar lies about a thing. Footage at 11.
