Republican senators mostly quiet on Trump's sweeping pardons of Jan 6 rioters

Pardons for criminals. Biden and Trump should both be ashamed. This is how a dictatorship is run. America just gets worse and worse.

You can't even hear a pin are drop when his pardons because shame tends to tie tongues.

Correction:

You can't even hear a pin drop when his pardons are mentioned because shame tends to tie tongues.

Sensible position. Look forward and positive and not live in the past with negativity.

Biden gave blanket pardons to his own family members at the final moment, so this corrects the ledger.

Trump just pardoned Ross Ulbricht (founder of Silk Road).

Was not a word about Biden’s pardons.

the minute Trump did some? now they criticizing “both” Presidents.

why? Because now Trump can pardon anyone he has ever met or heard of four years from now after they do anything/everything he tells them to.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5098805-biden-trump-pardon-power/

biden messed up. But he doesn’t care, never did. Just his own family and lackeys.

We already knew he was going to do this, they were his gang members anyways

Deo GratiasToday  11:07 am JST

Trump's pardoning of people who did nothing illegal on January 6 is far, far, FAR more justifiable than Biden's pre-emptive pardoning of Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, and his entire family.

Really? Did they try to overturn the US Government?

We already knew he was going to do this, they were his gang members anyways

Of course, but that is why the article is focused on the response from republican senators, it is important to call attention to any incongruencies with what they have previously said was important.

Course they're "mostly quiet". They're a bunch of spineless lackeys, which is just what Trump wants.

Senators are smart. They don't want to be shot.

Those rioters mostly have guns and anyone who doesn't agree with their release (or most things Trump says) could easily become targets for the whackier people in that group AND some new whackers too. After all, they are all "fine people" according to Trump.

*Trump's pardoning of people who did nothing illegal on January 6 is far, far, FAR more justifiable than Biden's pre-emptive pardoning of Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, and his entire family.*

I remember, as a student, in history class, being shown a famous photograph. The original was of Lenin making a speech. Trotsky was in the corner of the photograph. Later the photograph resurfaced, and Trotsky wasn't there.

I didn't really understand the bigger message - I was only in junior high - but with hindsight, it was just the precursor to things like this. There are hundreds of hours of video of people acting in an aggressive and violent manner in and around the Capitol, and yet we have people who aren't even ashamed to deny this fact.

Even more ironic that people on here, who presumably call themselves America first patriots, are basically doing exactly what the Russians did a century before. Just can't get away from that USSR obsession.

Really? Did they try to overturn the US Government?

we don’t even know what they were pardoned for as none of them were even investigated.

do you happen to know what the pardons were for?

What for example might Joe Biden’s brother’s wife have done to need a pardon when she hasn’t even been under investigation for anything.

Republican senators keeping quiet about pardoning some innocuous but perhaps a little high-spirited visitors taking photos.

Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

BlacklabelToday  11:26 am JST

Really? Did they try to overturn the US Government?

we don’t even know what they were pardoned for as none of them were even investigated.

do you happen to know what the pardons were for?

Ask the OP Deo Gratias who equated the Jan 6th rioters to  Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, and his entire family.

The J-6ers through blood, violence and defecation upon our nation’s Capitol salute you!!!

Ask the OP Deo Gratias who equated the Jan 6th rioters to Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, and his entire family.

maybe they are equal?

Thus the need for a pardon too.

we were not even allowed to start investigating them to find out. So must be really bad what they did.

if they truly didn’t do anything, they could have declined the pardon, right?

Adam Kinzinger said he didn’t need one. He took it though, didn’t he?

What can the Republicans say? Nothing, they’re not the President and the vast majority of them want them released as well.

What can the Republicans say? Nothing, they’re not the President and the vast majority of them want them released as well.

You are saying not all Republicans then?

Message to violent Trump supporters: Your violence on my behalf is... perfectly legal! Now stand by until I figure out where to sic you fine thugs next. Trump has his very own Brownshirt army now.

Because they are self serving cowards with zero principles.

You are saying not all Republicans then?

Not sure and not that it matters

Because they are self serving cowards with zero principles.

I guess we can make that argument about every President

Because they are self serving cowards with zero principles.

I guess we can make that argument about every President

I was making it about Republican senators. You know, the ones in the headline of the article above.

As the swamp drains it is getting more fetid.

Remember Chuck Schumer said preemptive pardons "would be a gross abuse of presidential pardon authority"?

December, 2020. Jake Tapper (CNN fake news) asks President-elect Biden about the rumor that Trump may issue some preemptive pardons before leaving office.

Biden: You're not going to see me do that.

Good on these Republican senators for not making a mockery out of the US' system.

*After all, they are all "fine people" according to Trump.*

This is a falsely attributed quote.

I was making it about Republican senators. You know, the ones in the headline of the article above.

I as well, but my question is, what can any of them say about the President? More importantly, there’s nothing they can do? Nothing.

Unfortunately it seems more and more that America's future is being decided by illiterate, uneducated thugs.

Unfortunately it seems more and more that America's future is being decided by illiterate, uneducated thugs

It does come across that way.

The shirtless shaman a perfect symbol of the cracked, cultish, conspiracy-theory fueled basement nonsense the internet has given us.

These people can vote.

Was universal suffrage a good idea?

Two pleaded guilty of the Jan 6th rioters were responsible for the murder of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. After his death, Sicknick's remains lay in honor at the U.S. Capitol with Capitol Police officer guards. His family was outraged what happened to law and order:

Our family has been asked to comment on the pardoning of the rioters who sacked the Nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021, including the man who assaulted our son with a deadly weapon, and his accomplice. There are no words that adequately describe the pain of losing Brian, and the suffering we have endured every day since, never to end. The pardons are intended to "end a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated on the American people, and to begin the process of national reconciliation." It is up to the American people to decide whether this purpose will be achieved, involving far more serious questions than how our family feels about the death of a son and brother, and the undoing of the justice that was previously determined by the Court's sentencing of Brian's assailants. It is our hope that the truth of what happened that tragic day will survive, irrespective of partisan political objectives. We are proud of our son's defense of American Democracy, and the continued efforts of his fellow officers to safeguard the seat of government, and the Constitution which guides it; our hearts go out to them as they cope with all that has occurred, and we pray for their strength and fortitude to continue their important mission.

Blacklabel

What for example might Joe Biden’s brother’s wife have done to need a pardon when she hasn’t even been under investigation for anything.

Nothing. That's point. Trump won't care if anybody has actually done anything before he gets his DOJ to go after them.

Nothing. That's point. 

how do we know it’s nothing if an investigation hasn’t even started and we don’t even know for what.

Trump won't care if anybody has actually done anything before he gets his DOJ to go after them.

So he never gets to even investigate anyone, ever?

Every Democrat aligned person is just “innocent”.

“my son has done nothing wrong”. Didn’t that quickly change after he was investigated?