RINO South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC’s Kirsten Welker on Sunday morning that he thinks Trump’s pardoning and release of January 6 hostages was a “mistake” while comparing the victims to radical left Black Lives Matter rioters who burned down cities across the United States.
President Trump freed over 1,500 political prisoners last Monday.
Men and women who’ve been imprisoned by the Biden/Obama shadow government for daring to protest the legitimacy of the 2020 election have lost family members, jobs, businesses, friends, and reputations, all because Democrats needed to push a fake narrative that President Trump committed a crime on January 6, when his followers peacefully protested on the Capitol grounds.
Videos now reveal that Capitol Police shot innocent protesters in the face and body with rubber bullets while blasting them with pepper spray before and after they entered the Capitol building.
On January 6, hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters gathered at the White House Elipse to attend a rally, where President Trump told them to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol and make their voices heard.
What later ensued at the Capitol was chaos incited by federal agents, Capitol Police, and likely some leftist infiltrators. Before the chaos erupted, Capitol police began firing rubber bullets, tear gas canisters, and flash grenades on the peaceful crowd of Trump supporters gathered around the US Capitol without warning, the Gateway Pundit reported.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Inspector General David Horowitz released his much-anticipated January 6 report last month. In the IG report, the DOJ admits to 26 “confidential human sources” (page 77) working that day inside the Trump protest at the US Capitol. The IG Report ignored how many “undercover employees” were also at the US Capitol that day. According to the report, the DOJ also admitted that 4 entered the US Capitol and 13 entered the restricted area. However, this is very likely inaccurate as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the FBI lost track of how many operatives and paid informants they had in the Trump crowd on January 6, 2021.
Nearly every participant in the J6 protest who was charged with a crime was forced into taking a plea deal; otherwise, they’d find no justice in the far-left DC courthouse and face even harsher sentences. This includes those charged with assaulting a police officer, even if they were fighting for their lives or to save others’ lives, as police brutally bludgeoned them and used nonlethal weapons against them.
When asked about those who pleaded guilty to assaulting police — even though they had no choice but to accept a plea — Lindsey Graham said these people “went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently” and said it was a “mistake.”
“It seems to suggest that’s an okay thing to do,” he continued before comparing Trump supporters to the leftists “burning down Minneapolis.”
Watch below:
Welker: Let’s turn now to President Trump’s decision to pardon, to give blanket pardons to, everyone who was convicted of crimes on January 6, including the 172 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Even his own Vice President said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Do you believe that President Trump was wrong to issue these blanket pardons to the January 6 defendants?
Graham: Number one, he had the legal authority to do it, but I fear that you will get more violence. Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently, I think, was a mistake because it seems to suggest that’s an okay thing to do. Kamala Harris wanted to raise bail money for people burning down Minneapolis. You know, Biden pardoned half his family going out the door. I think most Americans, if this continues, to see this as an abuse of the pardon power, that we’ll revisit the pardon power of the president if this continues, but as to pardoning violent people who beat up cops, I think that’s a mistake.
Welker: So, you think it was a mistake by President Trump to issue these blanket pardons. What message does it convey to law enforcement?
Graham: There’s really been no better supporter of law enforcement in general, and there are a lot of people who supported President Trump in law enforcement who didn’t like this. But he said it during the campaign. He’s not tricking people. You know, Biden promised not to pardon his family. He did. Trump said I’m gonna pardon these people. So, the fact that he did it is no surprise, but I’ll be consistent here. I don’t like the idea of bailing people out of jail or pardoning people who burned down cities and beat up cops whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat.
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