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What about the leader of the FBI? What about the FBI agents who were on the grounds who were in that mess?”
Burchett retorted, peddling the conspiracy theory that the insurrection was a “false flag” orchestrated by the feds to entrap MAGA supporters
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This is not Fox, Congressman. You can‘t just spin a tale and pull the wool over people‘s eyes. This is CNN. This is the news. We are asking you to come on and tell the truth,
Acosta statedIf they were truly violent, no. But do I know that they were? I don’t know that, ... What do you mean you don’t know?! We’re showing the footage on the air right now. You were there that day!”
Burchett replied, prompting Acosta to fire backAnd that’s why more people are watching the Cartoon Network and Spongebob reruns right now, Jim,
Burchett sneeredIt sounds like you’re betraying the blue,
Jim Acosta exclaimed on WednesdayWe’re talking about the leader of the Oath Keepers, the leader of the Proud Boys. They should be released from prison?
Acosta wonderedYou’re engaging in a game of whataboutism. People were obviously prosecuted,
Acosta replied, only for the congressman to prove him rightI'm going to do case-by-case, and if they were nonviolent, I think they've been greatly punished,
he told Time magazine during the campaign
F **k it: Release 'em all,
As his team wrestled with the top issues to tackle on Inauguration Day, during their first hours in office, Trump weighed in ... he said, according to AxiosThese are criminals that he gave a pardon to, and you should be asking that question,
Trump saidBig protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there will be wild".
After he lost the election, Trump summoned to Washington the Proud Boys and other pro-violence groups like the Three Percenters, The Oath Keepers, the Texas Freedom Force,and other self-described Nazis and white supremacists to Washington by announcing
I feel that my brother died in vain and that our nation has a very long and dark road ahead of it,
Craig Sicknick told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday
It is our hope that the truth of what happened that tragic day will survive, irrespective of partisan political objectives,
they said in a public statementHe 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 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 interview
Due 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 NewsThe rule of law is dead in this country. We are now in the age of government lawlessness,
Fanone saidTrump has been on the receiving end of Joe Biden’s politicized and weaponized justice department,
he saidIf there is proof that you assaulted a police officer, there needs to be consequences,
Thomas said