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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeSantis 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 dont 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 hed pardon Trump but left open the possibility.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/desantis-jan-6-attack-trump/
RegulatedCapitalistD
(416 posts)He will prostrate himself for the office
His wife will leave him if he doesn't win.
Cha
(298,139 posts)1st assistant to the DICtator of Florida.
Shermann
(7,489 posts)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?
Freethinker65
(10,118 posts)Cha
(298,139 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,368 posts)Pucker up and kiss some insurrectionist ass. What a fucking asshole.
VMA131Marine
(4,159 posts)He cant out-Trump Trump!
The only way to beat Trump is to go after him head-on otherwise youre just Trump-lite if youre a Republican
bucolic_frolic
(43,548 posts)It's a really bad look that should be exposed instead of debated as a surface issue