"...we all saw who stormed the capitol."
#Trump #GOP #Jan6 #Capitol #Fascism #WhiteSupremacy #ProudBoys #OathKeepers #ICE #Paramilitary #Pardons #Democracy
"...we all saw who stormed the capitol."
#Trump #GOP #Jan6 #Capitol #Fascism #WhiteSupremacy #ProudBoys #OathKeepers #ICE #Paramilitary #Pardons #Democracy
"...we all saw who stormed the capitol."
#Trump #GOP #Jan6 #Capitol #Fascism #WhiteSupremacy #ProudBoys #OathKeepers #ICE #Paramilitary #Pardons #Democracy
(14 people, mainly senior figures in the #OathKeepers & #ProudBoys movements, saw their sentences commuted but did not receive #pardons.)
Of the 1,500 or so offenders who received pardons, roughly 600 had been charged with assaulting or obstructing #police officers, & 170 had been accused of using #DeadlyWeapons in the siege.
#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
6 months later, in the summer of 2024, #Trump, who would come to describe the #Jan6 #insurrection as a “day of love,” said that, if reelected, he would #pardon rioters, but only “if they’re innocent.” Dempsey was NOT innocent, but on Jan 20, 2025, shortly after being inaugurated, Trump pardoned him & roughly 1,500 others charged with or convicted of offenses related to the Capitol insurrection.
#NeverForget #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
(14 people, mainly senior figures in the #OathKeepers & #ProudBoys movements, saw their sentences commuted but did not receive #pardons.)
Of the 1,500 or so offenders who received pardons, roughly 600 had been charged with assaulting or obstructing #police officers, & 170 had been accused of using #DeadlyWeapons in the siege.
#Jan6 #NeverForget #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #Trump #coup #AntiAmerican #democracy #law #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower
