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RandySF

(59,897 posts)
Thu May 25, 2023, 03:51 PM May 2023

DeSantis says, if elected president, he'd consider pardons for Jan. 6 offenders

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that, if elected president, he would consider pardoning some of those convicted on charges related to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Hosts of the conservative “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” asked DeSantis if he thinks Jan. 6 defendants “deserve to have their cases examined by a Republican president,” and whether he would pardon former president Donald Trump if he were “charged with federal offenses.” DeSantis said that on his first day in office, he would “have folks that will get together and look at all these cases.”

“Now, some of these case, some people may have a technical violation of the law,” DeSantis said. “But if there are three other people who did the same thing but just in a context, like [the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020] and they don’t get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice, and so … we will use the pardon power.”

Twice in the interview, DeSantis avoided directly answering questions on whether he’d pardon Trump but left open the possibility.





https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/desantis-jan-6-attack-trump/

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DeSantis says, if elected president, he'd consider pardons for Jan. 6 offenders (Original Post) RandySF May 2023 OP
Panderer... RegulatedCapitalistD May 2023 #1
I doubt that she'd still be Cha May 2023 #5
He'll pick up the 1000 votes from those indicted Shermann May 2023 #7
Surprised he didn't promise to deputize them into his private police force Freethinker65 May 2023 #2
FO Loser deeSadist Fuckface. Cha May 2023 #3
BOOM, and there it is. bottomofthehill May 2023 #4
Someone should remind DeSatan ... VMA131Marine May 2023 #6
Canceling rule of law, or politicizing it for Republican gains bucolic_frolic May 2023 #8
Mighty white of them . . . Him Johonny May 2023 #9
Bootsy DePuddinfingers says what? dchill May 2023 #10
That alone makes him unqualifed to be President, yet alone Governor JohnSJ May 2023 #11
We already had One Trumper, we do not need or want another. BYE BYE DeSantis katmondoo May 2023 #12
Cheney: Any candidate who says they will pardon Jan. 6 defendants is not qualified to be President. emulatorloo May 2023 #13
+1 dalton99a May 2023 #15
Kick dalton99a May 2023 #14

Shermann

(7,489 posts)
7. He'll pick up the 1000 votes from those indicted
Thu May 25, 2023, 04:06 PM
May 2023

Oh wait, many of those will be felons unable to vote next year. Whoops.

Also, there has to be at least 10,000 independents who won't abide this. Isn't there?

VMA131Marine

(4,159 posts)
6. Someone should remind DeSatan ...
Thu May 25, 2023, 04:02 PM
May 2023

He can’t out-Trump Trump!

The only way to beat Trump is to go after him head-on otherwise you’re just Trump-lite if you’re a Republican

bucolic_frolic

(43,548 posts)
8. Canceling rule of law, or politicizing it for Republican gains
Thu May 25, 2023, 04:11 PM
May 2023

It's a really bad look that should be exposed instead of debated as a surface issue

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