JD Vance Defends Trump's Pardons Of Jan. 6 Rioters
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He said he and Trump went through 1,600 cases and decided they were "unconstitutional."
Vice President JD Vance defended the pardons of Jan. 6 rioters Sunday on “Face The Nation,” going against his comments earlier this month when he said violent rioters should not be pardoned.
Vance told “Face The Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan that violence against a police officer is “not justified,” but that the “weaponized” Department of Justice was “unconstitutional” in its charges against the rioters.
“There’s what the people actually did on Jan. 6, and we’re not saying that everybody did everything perfectly,” Vance said. “And then what did Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice do in unjustly prosecuting well over a thousand Americans in a way that was politically motivated?”
Vance said he and President Donald Trump looked at 1,600 cases and saw a “massive denial of due process of liberty,” and said he believes Trump made the “right decision” in blanket pardoning more than 1,500 people who were charged in the attack of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on his first day in office ― contradicting the comments he made earlier this month: “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
In August 2023, Trump was indicted for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, but the charges were dropped after Trump won the election in November because the Department of Justice does not allow the prosecution of a sitting president.
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