According to NBC News, President-elect Donald Trump said he is looking to issue pardons to his supporters involved in the attacks on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as soon as his first day in office, saying those incarcerated are “living in hell.”
Trump’s comments, the most sweeping he’s made since winning the 2024 election, came during an exclusive interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker.
He also said that he will not seek to turn the Justice Department on his political foes and noted that some members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack “should go to jail,” reports NBC.
On his first day in office, Trump said he would bring legal relief to the Jan. 6 rioters. He said they have been put through a “very nasty system.”
“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump said, adding later about their imprisonment, “they’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”
Trump said that there “may be some exceptions” to his pardons “if somebody was radical, crazy.”
He was asked about the 900 who weren’t violent but pled guilty. President-Elect Trump noted the prosecutors threats if they didn’t plead guilty.
“I know the system. The system’s a very corrupt system,” Trump said. “They say to a guy, ‘You’re going to go to jail for two years or for 30 years.’ And these guys are looking, their whole lives have been destroyed. For two years, they’ve been destroyed. But the system is a very nasty system.”
Charlie Kirk just posted the information:
BREAKING: President Trump tells NBC he is “most likely” to pardon J6ers on day one and warned that some members of the J6 House committee “should go to jail.” pic.twitter.com/yOQ7PH3k4x
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 8, 2024
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Just before the pardons become effective, document with eng all the harsh conditions these poor people had to endure so that it might never happen again and that civil actions can take place.
Hang Pelosi for these imprisonments. These people were simply exercising their freedom to assemble. Hang Cheney and that asinine committee for burning the proof. Our government must be cleaned out. This corruption started decades ago but especially under the Bush regimes. Disgusting for the US to Be this. We were a beacon to the world now we are just slaves… Read more »
This Country went through a civil war for five years killing each other of well over 600,000. And three years after on Christmas Day Lincoln pardon all the Confederate solders
This J6 BS has gone on long enough. Pardon them all, and clear all there records, not one of them did anywhere the damage that war did
Don’t you love the “Loaded Language” these leftist rags use? They were peaceful protestors except for the fbi plants who were given free reign to do what ever they want.
ANYTHING “reported” by NBC “news” should be considered a blatant lie
until proven otherwise. NBC “news” is nothing but democrat propaganga.
We finally have a President of the People, By the People and FOR the people.
Pardons are not enough. Hundreds of citizens have been taken from their families and communities, lost jobs, and maliciously prosecuted in kangaroo courts simply for their political views and for exercising their First Amendment right to petition government for redress of grievances. Calling for free and fair elections is the opposite of insurrection. We must compensate them and deny prosecutorial… Read more »
And said Compensation is to come from the pockets of those who sat on the sham J6 Committee. Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and all the others need to PAY UP.
The ‘sham committee’ should go straight to jail. We the people have held a lengthy trial and found them guilty of high crimes and higher misdemeanors. Lock them up.