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Trump supporters celebrate as first January 6 prisoners are released

www.theguardian.com Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders among January 6 prisoners released by Trump

Far-right figures Enrique Tarrio and Steward Rhodes set free after being imprisoned for helping plot Capitol attack

Summary

Supporters of Donald Trump gathered outside Washington, DC’s Central Detention Facility to celebrate the release of January 6 prisoners following Trump’s sweeping pardons on his first day in office.

Trump issued “full, complete and unconditional” pardons for 1,500 individuals involved in the Capitol attack, including far-right leaders Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, whose sentences were commuted.

The release sparked emotional reactions from families and supporters, though critics condemned the move, noting the violent acts committed by some of those pardoned.

The pardons have drawn widespread outrage from lawmakers.

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Thats what Hitler did too, pretty soon after he became chancellor.
- I don't doubt that he was capable of such a thing but I have no recollection of that from the history I've read and a search online and skim of his Wikipedia page isn't providing anything to back that up either. Do you have a source or specifics I can search up to confirm your claim?
  Wikipedia is just full of arrests and deaths, not pardons.
  It makes it easier to convince friends of the Trump/Hitler parallels if I can back it up with sources.
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/
  That same Tuesday, March 21, an Article 48 decree was issued amnestying National Socialists convicted of crimes, including murder, perpetrated “in the battle for national renewal.” Men convicted of treason were now national heroes. The first concentration camp was opened that afternoon, in an old brewery near the town center of Oranienburg, just north of Berlin. The following day, the first group of detainees arrived at another concentration camp, in an abandoned munition plant outside the Bavarian town of Dachau.

Don’t forget they are not being released in isolation. They have existing networks and just proved their loyalty to the cause.
ProPublica: The Militia and the Mole

I hope each one chokes on a cheeseberder. I hope it is excruciating. I hope it is recorded so we can add a laugh track.

January 6th rioters are terrorists who tried their very hardest to stab America in the heart.
It is very important to make sure we all include this central fact whenever we speak about the issue, as a general note. It should be repeated so much that people hear it in their heads as an echo whenever they think about the subject, because it is the truth.
- They were safer in prison. Just release their names and addresses and let freedom do it's job

Fucking laws no longer apply to us either then, fuck these goddamn Nazis
- Oh no they absolutely do apply to you. That's how fascism works!

Disgusting that this happened, let alone that people are cheering this on. I feel terrible for the police officers that were assaulted that day defending the capitol, only for their assaulters to be celebrated when they were pardoned.

Where's a listing of the names and addresses of those being pardoned?

There are no consequences for being white pieces of traitorous garbage in America. Jay walk as a person of color and you’re getting 20 years in jail.

It's amazing to me how so many in the US aren't bothered about traitors who tried to overthrow their government. Shows how bad things have gotten; presumably enough Trump supporters don't care or somehow believe it was justified!?
From outside, it honestly seems the US is slowly sliding further and further into chaos.
- And just like that, vigilante justice rises.
- We aren't bothered because these people will ask be dead within a year of release

What color will the shirts be?
- Well, they've already got underlying militia organizations like the proud boys, oath keepers, and three percenters. I'm guessing this is the end of the stand by stage and the beginning of your right wing death squads.

Enrique Tarrio
We live in a clown world. What would your papás say about this, Enrique?

Of course his cult won’t ask why he didn’t do this 4 years ago

"Brown shirts get their shirts back"
- And the billionaires cheered "Hurrah for the Black Shirts"

How about Biden pardoning his entire family and letting everyone else burn under trump….lol
- How about staying on topic, ya knob?
  
  It is on topic … forgiving criminals.

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