Vice President-elect JD Vance just provided the clearest explanation yet of the Trump administrationā€˜s plans to pardon Jan. 6 rioters, telling ā€œFox News Sundayā€ that while there’s ā€œa little bit of a gray area there,ā€ those who committed violence during the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack ā€œobviouslyā€ shouldn’t be pardoned. Those who protested ā€œpeacefully,ā€ however, can expect to have their records wiped clean.

ā€œI think it’s very simple,ā€ the former Ohio senator said. ā€œIf you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.ā€

Vance’s comments provide a stark contrast to what President-elect Donald Trump has been saying over the past few months, with the future POTUS providing little to no details about who would get the pardons he’s been promising except declaring that protesters who assaulted Capitol police officers ā€œhad no choiceā€ that day.

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    5 months ago

    Well I do always hold to the ā€œwhatever they accuse the democrats of, is what either they are planning or already doingā€. Anyone remember talking about how it was a coup when Biden’s VP threw him out to pasture.

    Bottom line is, far as the project 2025 goal… trump’s entire responsibility was to win the election… Once votes don’t matter, he’s actually more of a liability because his brain is sludge… and he still has an ego that makes him easy to manipulate and a risk of doing things because they are popular even if they don’t fit the agenda.

    I would be extremely unsuprised if shortly after being sworn in, trump were 25thed.