WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump issued pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of assaulting police, in his first official action after returning to the White House as the country’s 47th president on Monday.
The pardons of about 1,500 people fulfilled Trump’s promise to release supporters who tried to help him overturn his election defeat four years ago. Another 14 people had their sentences commuted.
“These are the hostages,” he said while signing the paperwork in the Oval Office.
It wasn’t a fucking riot you useless cum sock! It was an attempted coup and insurrection. Fuck I hate the fucking media.
They successfully delayed the certification of the vote! They went there with intention and carried out that intention and yet the media will always use soft language to diminish the severity. Its gross.
I opened in Apple News then reported misinformation.
Edit: Looks like you can contact the authors directly via email; I’ve gone ahead and done that as well.
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Right, but if you open the Associated Press article in Apple News you can report issues with the article.
How did you see my comment, I deleted it immediately after I posted it?
I see it deleted now but I’d guess that either my instance or Lemmy client was out of sync.
Ah, that explains it 😄
I mean, it was technically a riot, and an insurrection, that trump orchestrated in his attempt of an auto-coup.
So technically the charges to the participants of Jan 6 would be: rioting, insurrection
The charges against trump would be: incitment of insurrection, attempted (auto)coup, treason
Yeah, but the media has been only calling it a fucking riot now for four years in a successful attempt to minimize the historical significance of that day. Fuck them all.