Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Complete The Rewriting Of His Coup Attempt
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They also send a message that he will protect those who break the law on his behalf, democracy advocates warn.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump incurred no legal consequences for his Jan. 6, 2021, attempted coup, and now members of his mob who assaulted police officers in his name that day will no longer be held accountable, either.
Within hours of swearing to protect and defend the Constitution in his oath of office, Trump on Monday freed from federal prison hundreds of his followers who had been convicted of beating, kicking, punching, bear-spraying and otherwise attacking police officers to help him remain in power, despite having lost reelection — what authoritarian experts describe as a “self-coup.”
“Authoritarianism is the conversion of rule of law into rule by the lawless. He needs the people with those skill sets on his side,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University.
Added Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson: “He is sending a signal that he will take care of anyone who will fight for him.”
As Trump signed an order granting the mass release, he repeated falsehoods about the Jan. 6 criminals — who by their actions meet the definition of domestic terrorists ― that he and his allies have been spreading for three years, including that prosecutors were imprisoning an elderly grandmother merely for protesting.
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