Trump pardons roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
The sweeping pardons mark the beginning of the end of one of the largest investigations in FBI history.
If Elmo throwing Nazi salutes wasn't a big enough tell, Drumpf calling them the January 6 hostages should terrify anyone who hasn't already left the country.
Should start saying he pardoned "antifa" or whatever conservatives were calling them to distance themselves.
He needs his brownshirts for what's coming next
the pool of candidates for new hires at border patrol and ice just got larger.
And police officers
And senators and representatives
I'm actually surprised he did but I guess Brownshirts gotta come from somewhere.
I genuinely thought he'd leave them twisting in the wind.
I'm also surprised he actually gave enough of a shit to pardon them. I assumed he'd just forget about them.
He doesn't. He did it in order to set the precedent that crime and violence committed on his behalf will be pardoned.
I somehow thought it would be more calculated and not quite so broad.
To be fair "calculated" and "Trump" don't exaclty go hand in hand.
His ban of and then saving of Tiktok falls under the most Basic Bitch Strong Men Tactics.
The party of law and order.
Is there a public list of all the people charged that are getting pardons?
A new list is starting up that will track all 1500 of them, details here: https://bsky.app/profile/reportbywilson.bsky.social/post/3lg7p2a3yu22c
