Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is one of them.
Democratic Party Apparently, President Joe Biden granted an “unconditional” blanket pardon to felon son Hunter Biden, commuting the sentences of heinous child murderers, crooks who blighted cities, and other predators. In response, it seems like President Trump wants to pretend that any kind of presidential pardon is now off the table. .
schumer
noticed In Monday's X: “It's absolutely shameful that the president-elect is considering pardoning the January 6th rioters.”
After winning the election in a landslide, President Donald Trump
said “We're going to review each individual case, and we're going to do it very quickly, and that's going to start in the first hour after I get to the office,” Time magazine said in an interview. .
Trump added: “The vast majority should not be in prison. They are suffering deeply.”
A few weeks later, President Trump
repeated In an interview with NBC News' “Meet the Press,” the president said he would begin pardoning the Jan. 6 protesters on his first day in office, and revealed who the radicals responsible for the truly deadly BLM riots were. However, he pointed out that he was able to escape almost legally unscathed afterwards. give It cost the nation billions of dollars and the January 6 protesters were “unjustly treated.”[ly]. ”
“What happened on January 6th does not warrant a 22-year sentence.”
“These people have suffered long and hard. There may be exceptions. I'll have to figure it out,” Trump said.
Asked if he would consider pardoning violent protesters, Trump pointed out that some violent crime convictions are false, saying, “We're going to look at everything. We're going to look at each individual case. I intend to do so.”
More than 1,580 defendants have been charged with crimes related to the January 6, 2021 protests. Blaze News previously reported that nearly 1,000 people have pleaded guilty to the Jan. 6 charges, 68% of them misdemeanors and 32% felonies. Of those who pleaded guilty to a felony, 53% were for assaulting a law enforcement officer. Some of the most serious prison sentences ranged from 10 to 22 years.
Mike Davis, founder of the Article III project,
said In a statement, the Washington Examiner said, “What happened on January 6th, especially when the Biden Justice Department granted amnesty to essentially the far more deadly and destructive BLM and Antifa mobs, is a 22-year-old There is no need for a prison sentence.”
“Pardoning criminals who waved Confederate flags, wore Nazi symbols, assaulted police officers, and tried to halt the democratic process would be a dangerous endorsement of political violence.” continued Schumer.
This argument has been promoted by other leftists, including Joyce Vance, a senior fellow at the United Nations.
Brennan Center funded by Soroswho noticed “Pardoning the rioters is a grotesque abuse of the pardon power because, under the guise of legal authority, it puts the president's seal on the crimes at the heart of the assault on our democracy,” he said Friday. said.
Schumer is
I was careful in advance We tried not to confuse violent Black Lives Matter rioters with peaceful protesters, and took a very different approach when: discuss left wing radical The man, who clashed with police near the White House in June 2020, said President Trump's potential pardon for the January 6 protesters is “wrong. It's reckless. It would be an insult to the memory of those who died in connection with this,” he added.
Before Kamala Harris certified President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victory, Schumer said: criticized President Trump again spoke on the Senate floor, characterizing January 6, 2021 as “one of the darkest and most shameful days in the history of American democracy,” and calling out the protesters on January 6, 2021. He suggested that it would be unconscionable to pardon him.
later Democratic senator
said The reporters said pardoning the January 6 protesters “would set a terrible precedent for the future of America and the world that this is okay and this will be tolerated.” Ta.
Mr. Schumer spared Mr. Biden from similar criticism over his controversial pardons and the example they would set.
The Democratic president granted Hunter Biden a “full and unconditional pardon” last month, absolving him of crimes committed between 2014 and 2024 and exonerating him of his felony conviction on firearms charges. did. heavy tax crime.
Asked about Hunter Biden's pardon, Schumer said:
said Reporter: “I don’t know anything about that.”
Schumer also appeared to have little to say critical of Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, including cop killers, mass murderers, and child rapists. Among the people Biden has evaded the pursuit of judges and juries are: Jorge Avila Torres, “The ultimate serial killer” In 2005, he kidnapped, raped, and brutally murdered two girls, Laura Hobbs (8 years old) and Crystal Tobias (9 years old). murder of 20 year old boy U.S. Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell In 2009. And in 2009, he raped and nearly killed another woman.
And when Mr. Biden commuted the sentence of a disgraced former comptroller who stole $53.7 million from a struggling Illinois city, along with commutations of about 1,500 other convicts, Mr. Schumer and others There was a deafening silence from most Democrats.
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