J.D. Vance says Donald Trump’s supporters who committed violence during the storming of the U.S. Capitol in early January 2021 should not be pardoned after he takes office for a second time. said Sunday.
The vice president-elect’s remarks on Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream were a slight departure from President Trump’s prior promise to consider pardoning people who have admitted to assaulting police officers, calling it a “very corrupt” He said the system left police with no choice.
Vance told Bream: “If you were violent that day, of course you shouldn’t be forgiven.”
However, after the broadcast, Vance asserted that pardons for at least some of those convicted in the January 6, 2021, attack were still on the table, and that the second Trump administration said it was concerned about “those who have been subjected to garbage trials” and “those who have been unjustly imprisoned.”
More than 1,200 people have been convicted in connection with the Capitol attack, which involved multiple deaths, including a police suicide, and will keep Trump in the Oval Office after he was reelected by Joe Biden in 2020. The purpose was to keep it.
After defeating Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election to win a second term as president, Trump appeared on NBC News and said that one of his first actions after taking office was to “destroy a very troubling system.” He said his goal is to free the Capitol attackers who were charged and convicted of the crime.
“This is a very corrupt system,” said President Trump, who was convicted in New York state court in May of a felony charge of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. He said he received it. “And…their whole lives were destroyed.”
Appearing on Fox in what was billed as Vance’s first television interview since the November campaign, President Trump’s running mate said, “Those who peacefully protested… should be pardoned.” He added that those who “obviously committed violence that day” should not receive the same benefits.
Some of President Trump’s most ardent supporters were outraged by Vance’s comments as the Jan. 20 Inauguration Day approaches.
One of them, far-right provocateur Nicholas Fuentes, discussed how President Trump avoided significant punishment in the Daniels case and the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that undermined efforts to prosecute the president-elect. He published a social media post that seemed to hint at something. Attacking the Capitol.
“If Trump has earned his ‘get out of jail free’ card, so should all of his supporters who rallied for him on January 6th,” Fuentes wrote on social media. .
Luke Lintz, who pleaded guilty to interfering with law enforcement during an insurrection on the day of the Capitol attack, wrote separately on social media that he was “completely distraught right now.”
Vance later attempted to clarify his comments on social media, saying he and Trump would individually consider every January 6 conviction for pardon, and that the underlying crime was violent. regardless of whether it is of a physical nature or not.
“We care about those who are wrongfully incarcerated,” Vance wrote in part. “This includes people who have been given garbage trials.”
