Following President Donald Trump's Jan. 6 pardons for a wide range of political prisoners, establishment media forces and establishment Republicans like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have announced that J.D. They have attacked Vice President Vance, claiming that President Trump's actions contradict what Vance said he supported in the recent presidential election. Interview shortly before the inauguration ceremony.
But White House officials familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that nothing could be further from the truth, and that Mr. Vance had no specific idea about the very broad approach that Mr. Trump ultimately implemented on his first day in office. He said he was advocating for it. That's exactly what Trump has done throughout the transition since Election Day, Vance, two different White House officials and others familiar with his role told Breitbart News. He said he advocated for amnesties and helped develop processes and approaches.
“During the transition period, JD was behind the scenes pushing as hard as possible for broad pardons and commutations for the J6 hostages,” a person familiar with Vance's role in implementing the strategy told Breitbart News on Tuesday. told.
Vance's press secretary, Taylor Van Kirk, also released an extensive statement saying that Vance stands with Trump 100 percent here, and that the media has criticized former President Joe Biden's controversy in his final hours as president. He said more focus should be placed on amnesty for the families who are causing the turmoil. on monday.
Mr Van Kirk said:
As Vice President Vance said on Fox News Sunday, any pardons for the January 6 protesters would be handled on a case-by-case basis, which of course means there is always a significant gray area. means. These prosecutorial corrupt processes led President Trump to rightly decide to grant broad pardons to all wrongfully convicted January 6th protesters. Despite the mainstream media's obsession with January 6, the outgoing administration's request for a presidential pardon for members of the Biden family deserves further media scrutiny.
Even though Mr. Vance is 100 percent in line with Mr. Trump's actions and has specifically claimed this very thing, some people in the media such as HuffPost They tried to use Mr. Vance's recent interview on Fox News Sunday to say that the vice president does not support “such a broad pardon.”
McConnell, the former Senate Republican leader who is now a rank-and-file senator, also said after Trump's decision Monday night that he agrees with Vance but not Trump, here: I tried to tear it apart.
But in fact, Vance's actual comments in the Fox News Sunday interview make it clear that he believes there is a “gray area” in these cases because of widespread miscarriages of justice.
“There's a little bit of a gray area there, but we're committed to equal administration of the law,” Vance said on Fox News Sunday in early January.
So, very clearly, Vance did not agree with the strategy Trump used. In fact, multiple officials and associates say he was key in helping develop and do exactly what Trump did.
While the establishment media and career politicians are trying to drive a wedge between Vance and Trump, Vance's comments on Fox News Sunday echo what Trump himself told Time magazine in a separate recent interview. You're just repeating what you said. Here are the relevant parts of President Trump's “Person of the Year”: interview In Time magazine:
Have you decided yet whether to pardon all the defendants of January 6th?
yes.
Do you want to do it all?
We judge it on a case-by-case basis, but if they were non-violent, I think they would have been severely punished. And the answer is, I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to find out if there's anything that really got out of control.
Does this mean that those who commit acts of violence are not included?
Well, we're going to look at individual cases, and it's going to be done very quickly, and it's going to start in the first hour after I get to the office. And the vast majority of them shouldn't be in jail. The vast majority should not be in prison and they are suffering severely. And I say this, why are they in so many other places in Portland and Minneapolis, where nothing is happening and they're actually causing a level of death and destruction that we've never seen before? If you look at what happened in Seattle, people died, there were a lot of deaths, and nothing happened and these people have been treated really, really badly. Yes, that's an important issue to me. They have suffered greatly, but in many cases they should not have suffered.
So even after all of this latest saga, it is abundantly clear that the establishment media and the power circles of sleazy career politicians have learned nothing from the 2024 election.
