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‘We ... We’ll take a look,’ which is Trump speak for, ‘We will never look at this again.’
It’s like, Step 1, release the prisoners. Step 2, look into which prisoners we should release.”
Shouldn’t you look at it before you issue the pardon?”
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 replied 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,
This was a political thing from the start. It was a bad day in America,
Look what happened in the last four years with police. What happened with all the riots that took place all across the country? Police officers were murdered. Courthouses were burned. Over 22 police cars were burned. Yet no one went to jail for that, ... Where are your crocodile tears for that?"
OUCH. @TimBurchett absolutely bodies CNN's Jim Acosta as the network losing to Spongebob reruns,
media analyst Curtis Houck reacted Your view is very diminished. And your view is very diminished,
the congressman replied to him Tim Burchett just ended Jim Acosta's daytime career,
Just wow. Jim Acosta shows how it’s done. These are questions every anchor must ask,
an Acosta fan said of the interview, to which Acosta reposted on his X account about the exchange Dismissal of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on January 6, 2021,
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a six-page order dismissing charges against Dominic Box, whom she had previously convicted of two felony counts for his role in the riot We got the real men back,
she yelled in response to Lazar We’re all coming for their jobs. We’re talking in Congress,
yelled 39-year-old Samuel Lazar, who was greeted with cheers We can’t do this!” ... We can do this!”
Merz told the crowd earlier this week, playing on Merkel’s famous 2015 mantra — You all continue this, this narrative of attacking Trump. You just can't stand the fact that he won and that America spoke and that your view is very diminished,
What happened to ‘back the blue’? What happened to backing police officers?"
Why don’t you just give an editorial and not let me come on?"
The president’s made his decision. I don’t second-guess those … We believe in redemption. We believe in second chances.”
Johnson awkwardly sidestepped the issue at a Wednesday press conference, telling reporters I hope you guys all understand that my days – at least in the time at the Department of State – of engaging in domestic politics will be put aside as I focus on the affairs the United States has around the world,
he told co-host Craig Melvin