Long shot? Capitol rioters hold out hope for a Trump pardon

[JonLP24]

In what could be the longest of legal longshots, several of those arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol are holding out hope that President Donald Trump will use some of his last hours in office to grant the rioters a full and complete pardon.

Longtime advisers to Trump are urging him against such a move but the rioters contend their argument is compelling: They went to the Capitol to support Trump, and now that they are facing charges carrying up to 20 years in prison, it’s time for Trump to support them.

“I feel like I was basically following my president. I was following what we were called to do. He asked us to fly there. He asked us to be there. So I was doing what he asked us to do,” said Jenna Ryan, a Dallas-area real-estate agent who took a private jet to the Jan. 6 rally and ensuing riot to disrupt the certification of the election of President-elect Joe Biden.

Ryan -- who prosecutors say posted a now-deleted video of herself marching to the Capitol with the words, “We are going to f---ing go in here. Life or death” -- told Dallas television station KTVT, “I think we all deserve a pardon. I’m facing a prison sentence. I think I do not deserve that.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/long-shot-capitol-rioters-hold-hope-trump-pardon-75350385

[MontanaMama]

1. It's almost 2pm my time and I keep checking in

to see if the pardon dump has happened. I sincerely hope that all the insurrectionists, rioters, vandals and murderers get hung out to dry by their dear leader who has never done anything for anyone other than himself. Let them soak in his indifference.

[gldstwmn]

13. Me too. Bring on the pardons.

What is he waiting for? Joe Exotic has a limo waiting and hair and makeup on standby. I'm not kidding.

[katmondoo]

2. You all deserve a jail sentence. What you did was treasonous.

[Midnightwalk]

3. Give me liberty or give me death

But not prison?

Their convictions are as thin as tissue paper

[liberalmuse]

4. If he pardons them and they commit further insurrectionist crimes...

They will be going down. Presidents can't pardon people for future crimes.

[oasis]

5. Trump doesn't reward failure.

Sucks to be

[Make7]

6. Trump values loyalty.

Your loyalty to him. It doesn't go the other direction. Anyone paying the least little bit of attention should know this.

[getagrip_already]

7. trump is if nothing else

a selfish prick who thinks only of himself. He won't stick his neck out for anyone.

And since he knows that pardoning the traitors would be a sure ticket to conviction, he won't do it. The only wildcard is that if he believes he will get convicted either way, he will pardon everyone out of spite.

His mind is a cynical cesspool, so anything can happen. That's why he didn't resign. He didn't trust pence to honor his word and pardon him because that's what he would do.

That's my theory.

[SoonerPride]

8. Hey, Jenna, newsflash:

He doesn't give a flying fuck about you and if you spend 20 years in prison he couldn't possibly care less.

You were always a mark.

Womp womp.

[underpants]

11. It also lessens the chance of them showing up at Mar-a-lago

It’s so unpleasant for the members to have to se such “low class” people

[JDC]

9. They are barely Collateral Damage to trump

He gives zero thought to these people. He hates them. They failed.

[subterranean]

10. Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

Trump pardons don't come cheap, and most of the rioters don't look like they can afford the asking price.

[MarcA]

12. To drumph they are useful cannon fodder. n/t

[cwydro]

14. They'll find out what he thought of them soon enough.

I can’t imagine he would dare pardon them, but I couldn’t imagine much of what he’s done.

[StarfishSaver]

15. Once again, Trump supporters got conned by the conman

[alphafemale]

16. He's not going to pardon them because that would assure his conviction.

Even Leak Cheek Rudy is smart enough to know this.

[Wounded Bear]

17. So you're saying there's a chance...

[Maru Kitteh]

18. The entitlement is BREATHTAKING. nt

[GReedDiamond]

19. Ha HA!! Jenna Ryan is funny!

“I think we all deserve a pardon. I’m facing a prison sentence. I think I do not deserve that.”

Do they have open-mic nights in prison?

She could do a stand-up comedy act!