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‘We ... We’ll take a look,’ which is Trump speak for, ‘We will never look at this again.’
Then Chieng predicted
It’s like, Step 1, release the prisoners. Step 2, look into which prisoners we should release.”
Chieng continuedShouldn’t you look at it before you issue the pardon?”
he asked
We’ll take a look at everything.”
When Trump was challenged at a news briefing on why he’d pardoned a man who’d thrust a stun gun into a police officer’s neck, the president repliedThat merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law,
the judge added
This Court cannot let stand the revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement,
Howell wroteNo 'process of national reconciliation' can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity,
Howell wrote in the order
My understanding, there was a range of actions that he took and I guess I want to look and see what those are.”
John Hoeven told The Independent
I’ve got concerns with any pardons for people who did any harm to police officers. Full stop. And I’ve also got serious concerns with all of the pardons by Biden including the prospective pardons. That may mean we need to look at what that authority really entails.”
Thom Tillis also appeared to agree with Vance’s comment, telling CNNI have been betrayed by my country, and I’ve been betrayed by those that supported Donald Trump, whether you voted for him because he promised these pardons, or for some other reason, you knew that this was coming. And here we are.”
Brian Fanone, a former DC Metropolitan police officer, told CNNTrump just said: ‘F*** it: Release ‘em all,
an adviser familiar with the discussions told the AxiosHe did not have to do this. He had a lot of opposition within his own party,
Pierce said
I’m just a working man, dude. People like us don't get presidential pardons,
Loftus saidDue to the corrupt process of these prosecutions, President Trump rightly decided to grant a broad pardon to all wrongfully convicted of January 6 protesters,
Van Kirk wrote to NBC News
The rule of law is dead in this country. We are now in the age of government lawlessness,
Fanone said
I don’t know what the staff work was like on that,
former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., a Trump ally who attended Monday’s inauguration, said in an interviewIf there is proof that you assaulted a police officer, there needs to be consequences,
Thomas saidWe’ll take a look at everything. But I can say this, murderers today are not even charged. You have murders that aren’t charged all over.”
When told it was a pardon, the president repliedTrump has been on the receiving end of Joe Biden’s politicized and weaponized justice department,
he saidI’m going to do case-by-case, and if they were non-violent, I think they’ve been greatly punished,
Trump told “Time” magazine in December