What to Know About #Trump’s Broad Grant of #Clemency to #Jan6 *Rioters* [#insurgents]
He issued [full] formal #pardons to >1,550 *rioters* charged w/a wide range of #crimes &…commuted the sentences of 14 members of 2 #FarRight groups, the #ProudBoys & the #OathKeepers militia.
#criminal #law #Felon47 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons-jan6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q04.YlGa.SQDI64UgxNnn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Most of the [#ProudBoys & the #OathKeepers] defendants were convicted on #sedition charges & were serving #prison terms of up to 18 years. Under the #commutations, their sentences will be reduced to time served.
The most prominent defendant convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy charges…was #EnriqueTarrio, the fmr leader of the ProudBoys, …[he received a full pardon, not simply a commutation, from #Trump].
Let's be clear, since the media won't be.
The #Jan6Pardons are a direct insult to the rule of law and the jury system. This is not just red meat for his base, this is him rebuilding his paramilitary mob.
These pardons are very, very bad.
#AmericaIsNotNormal #AmericanFascism
I gifted a great article by Mary McCord in The Atlantic a few days ago that said the same thing, “A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack on the Judiciary”
A deliberate attack to ensure everyone sees he is above the law. In fact, his word is law.