Pennsylvania woman Savannah Huntington tells CNN she’s joyous that convicted felon President-Elect Trump will soon return to power and liberate her mom Rachel Powell from the West Virginia federal prison where she resides for her 2022 conviction on eight felonies committed during the January 6, 2021 MAGA insurrection at the US Capitol. “The only thing I could think of when I heard that Trump won the election was that my mom is coming home,” said Huntington of the woman who birthed her and then decades later used an ice axe to smash into the windows of the Capitol in a violent rage over Trump’s humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, just never mind that Powell was a pretty shitty mother who left her kids alone to go to DC that day.

“I believe that Trump is a man of his word,” said Powell over a prison phone to CNN and if you’re done snorting then the rest of the article quotes from other people who were unsubtle about the heat the fat fuck could face from his cult if he ends up caving to pressure from Republicans who really don’t want him pardoning anyone beyond maybe a token few misdemeanants.

“Unless the president pardons everybody, he is going to get some significant blowback,” said mentally ill MAGA lawyer John Pierce, who has represented dozens of the insurrectionists. “They are not a shy group of people.” Other shitbag attorney Joseph McBride was less absolutist but still all for it. “Not everybody who went to the Capitol was a saint, right? So, you have to draw distinctions between people. Even in the situations where people were violent, maybe a pardon is not the best idea, but maybe a commutation is, maybe a lessening of the punishment,” said McBride.

“Behind the scenes, defense attorneys representing rioters, along with an array of taxpayer-funded public defenders in DC, are scrambling to seek as much clemency as possible for their clients. The most pressing concerns are for convicted rioters required to report to prison before Trump’s inauguration in January, and for rioters with sentencing hearings coming up, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Federal judges in DC have already received and rejected some requests to postpone sentencings because of Trump’s pardon pledge,” CNN writes and we copied that verbatim because the quoted source’s role or vantage in this is extremely vague.

“They’re thrilled with the election, but there’s a lot of uncertainty from their perspective… We don’t know if he’s going to follow through with his promise,” the source, who we guess is a Justice Department lawyer, told CNN. The quote was interesting as it sort of sounds like a warning being conveyed to Trump’s team themselves even while really the rioters are at the mercy of his whims.