The type of human shit who call the Capitol rioters “political prisoners” are getting nervous over convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s silence on his campaign promise to pardon the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol on his orders on January 6th, 2021, Politico reports.
A lot of the apprehension in particular stems from spokesanimal Karoline “Blondi” Leavitt saying shit like “President Trump will make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis,” in a statement for the story, which is definitely far short of his previous pledges to let all of them off the hook.
“It is just a phrase. ‘Case by case,’ It isn’t a policy, or a strategy, or anything. It is a catch phrase the media is using to push the ‘only some will be pardoned’ narrative,” tweeted MAGA activist Suzzanne Monk and lol. It’s not “the media” saying this, but whatever helps them cope with Donald’s fuckery.
Reporter Kyle Cheney later tweeted some notes he left out of his story, adding that “Some advocates for J6ers say they are against blanket pardons because it might accidentally help feds in the crowd,” which is so on brand for MAGA. “Dismissing cases pre-sentencing is the dream because pardons might entail accepting guilt,” Cheney continued and we agree that’s probably where you’re going to see the most action, because it’s something that can be done a little more quietly than one big mass amnesty. Simply ordering the courtroom prosecutors not to show up to hearings and trials, which would probably push them into resigning and the judges to toss the cases unilaterally would take care of the active ones. Then there’s the misdemeanants and non-violent felons like the QAnon Shaman and similar middle-ground cases he can probably pardon with minimum fuss.
“Growing expectation of a slog to pardon those charged w assault because of politics/optics,” is Cheney’s last point and yeah, that’ll be a slog. For a few days, maybe a week, because if Trump just does it on day one then it’ll be buried under so much other shit so quickly everyone will have forgotten about it. After all he incited the riot itself and then got elected again four years later.