Trump: free the insurrectionists, jail the 1/6 committee
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Not that any of this is unexpected, but we should still resist the temptation to normalize it:
President-elect Donald Trump plans to pardon Jan. 6 rioters on his first day back in the White House, according to a new exclusive interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker.
The Meet the Press host sat down with the former and future president on Friday, before he traveled to Paris to meet with other world leaders. In the interview, which aired Sunday morning, Trump said he would “be acting very quickly” for the hundreds of individuals who participated in the United States Capitol attack in 2021.
“I’m looking first day,” Trump said when Welker asked when he planned on granting clemency to the more than 900 people who pleaded guilty to crimes. “These people have been there, how long has it been, three or four years, you know, by the way, they’ve been in there for years. And they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”
I’m not sure his claims to be upset by conditions prevailing in American prisons are being made entirely in good faith:
During their interview, Welker also asked the president-elect about the Jan. 6 Committee, the bipartisan panel tasked with investigating the events that took place that day. Their final 845-page report called on Congress to ban Trump from holding public office ever again and noted, on the top of the executive summary, that “None of the events of Jan. 6 would have happened without him.”
“For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said of the committee. Welker pressed him, asking about individual members of the panel, “So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail? Everyone on the committee, you think?”
“I think everyone on the committee,” Trump answered, later claiming he wouldn’t direct his FBI director or attorney general to send them to jail. But, he added, “I think they’ll have to look at that.”
Of course, Trump would never have had the idea of abusing the pardon or prosecution powers if not for Hunter Biden.