Disappointment Soars as Trump’s Transition Team Claims No Blanket Pardons for January 6 Protesters, Case-by-Case Decisions Expected
by Jim Hoff, The Gateway Pundit.com, November 24, 2024
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding electoral victory, expectations were high among his supporters that the defendants involved in the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach would receive presidential pardons.
To date, over 1,500 individuals have been charged for their involvement in the Capitol protests, and more than 1,000 have been sentenced. The sentences range from minor probation to years behind bars, often far exceeding the norm for similar offenses.
Biden’s Gestapo Department of Justice has weaponized these cases, using cherry-picked evidence and politically biased judges to ensure harsh penalties. Even non-violent participants have faced excessive punishment, many for merely entering the Capitol.
Some of these protesters were forced to defend themselves and fight back after Capitol Police attacked them with brutal force, including the use of pepper spray and tear gas.
A tragic example is Rosanne Boyland, whose death has raised serious questions. Witness accounts and video footage depict her unconscious body lying on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, as desperate Trump supporters tried to save her.
They eventually carried her lifeless body to the entrance of the West Capitol and pleaded with Metro Police for assistance. This followed a harrowing scene where an officer was seen striking Rosanne repeatedly with a stick.
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For years, supporters of the January 6 defendants have called for mercy, highlighting the egregious disparities in the justice system.
These defendants have been painted as pawns in a larger Deep State operation designed to undermine Trump’s presidency and deter patriotic dissent.
Despite previous hints at sweeping pardons, a recent statement from Trump’s campaign signaled a shift to a more cautious approach, disappointing many.
The decision has triggered disappointment and anger among Trump’s staunchest allies, who argue that the January 6 defendants have been unjustly punished.
Julie Kelly, a prominent conservative commentator, blasted the decision, tweeting:
Anything less than a blanket pardon for all J6ers subjected to rigged trials with cherry picked evidence created by corrupt DOJ apparatchiks and endorsed by complicit DC judges is not acceptable. Free them all.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) November 23, 2024
January 6 defendant John Strand, who received a three-year sentence for a nonviolent actions, stated, “I was sentenced to 3 years in prison for peacefully walking around then leaving when police asked us to. This wasn’t justice, this was a weaponized DOJ manipulating evidence to create the illusion of an “insurrection” — which was a complete fraud. Pardon us all.”
According to Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Every single J6er who has been targeted by the weaponized Biden/Harris regime must be pardoned! BLM/Antifa rioters who caused over $1 billion in damage across the country were either bailed out by Kamala Harris and Ilhan Omar or never put behind bars in the first place.” We cannot have a two-tiered justice system.
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Trump’s transition team has maintained a consistent and clear stance from the outset, emphasizing a case-by-case evaluation approach regarding pardons for January 6 since Antifa and FBI agents were also present on the January 6.
Earlier this year, in Trump’s interview with Time magazine, he said he was “absolutely” considering pardoning Capitol rioters. However, his team later clarified that any pardons would be assessed “on a case-by-case basis.”
“As President Trump has promised, he will pardon January 6th protestors who are wrongfully imprisoned by Crooked Joe Biden’s Justice Department, and those decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis when he is back in the White House,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, told NBC News at the time.
According to the news outlet:
In May, President Trump expressed his intention to pardon “many” of the January 6 participants but not ‘every single one.’The Trump campaign statement came in response to a question from NBC News about the sentencing last week of John Sullivan, who was a political outlier among Jan. 6 defendants.
Sullivan is not a Trump supporter, raising questions about whether the former president would seek to pardon him. Prosecutors said Sullivan was an “antiestablishment” activist who wanted to “burn it all down” and who tried to “incite violence” and “foment anarchy” during the Jan. 6 attack.
Sullivan previously held himself out as a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement (although activists distanced themselves from Sullivan before Jan. 6) and was caught on video after the Capitol attack bragging about how his goal had been to “make those Trump supporters f— s— up.”
“I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them probably they got out of control.”
