Trump Calls On Massive Protests If Prosecutors Go After Him And Offers Pardons To Jan. 6ers
"Former President Donald Trump Saturday night called on his followers to stage massive protests in multiple cities should prosecutors act against him. He also said he would offer pardons to those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that he incited in a last-gasp attempt to remain in power.
“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt,” he said to a rally audience in Conroe, Texas, reading from teleprompters set up on either side of his lectern."
I think it's more that he's promising to pardon the January 6th Insurrectionists if he runs and wins in 2024. It's his way of convincing them to keep quiet. "Don't rat be out and you'll only need to ensure prison until I'm back in office. Then I'll pardon you."
Nevermind that the people would need to a) endure prison for 3 years, b) hope that Trump was reelected, and c) hope that Trump makes good old his promise. (And that last one is the shakiest of all.)
I mean, if you actually watch the clip, he's clear that he means if he becomes president again. It'd be one thing if he genuinely didn't understand how pardons worked, but this is far worse. He's heavily implying that anyone who breaks the law in an attempt to get him into power will be able to avoid punishment so long as he actually gets the power.
Hell, even if you ignore the implication and only think about his literal meaning it's not funny, it's frightening. People beat police, smashed windows, and broke into the capitol building with weapons, but the former president and presumed GOP nominee for the next presidential election thinks they deserve pardons. Why? Because they broke the law for him.
He was literally ashamed to be associated with them.
Trump Dangles Pardons for Jan. 6 Rioters if He Wins in 2024
"Donald Trump pledged to dole out pardons to Jan. 6 Capitol rioters if he wins back the White House in 2024.
The announcement came during a lengthy Saturday evening address to a crowd of supporters in Conroe, Texas.
“If I run [in 2024] and I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly, we will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly,” Trump stated.
The twice impeached ex-president went on to rail against the House select committee tasked with investigating the happenings of that dark winter day.
“This hasn’t happened to all of the other atrocities that took place recently. Nothing like this has happened. What that ‘unselect’ committee is doing and what the people are doing that are running those prisons, it’s a disgrace,” Trump told the crowd. “It’s a disgrace.”"
This is fucking crazy. In this same rally he also threatened massive street protests in a bunch of major cities if the "racist crazy corrupt people" going after him try anything. This fucking punk is straight up threatening civil unrest if they indict him. He must be cornered. He deliberately crossed the line in this speech.
I just watched his Texas rally, he’s already introducing the idea that the midterms will be or are already stolen to his base. He put it out there in Arizona too when he spoke there not too long ago. He’s deliberately warming up his base to the idea so that when November comes, he can say something to the degree of “See folks, I’ve been saying it all along. The radical left took this from us.” This is why people need to get out and vote, there are some really high stakes here. I know it’s dangerous to mentally go down this path, but I have some very real concerns that if Trump gets enough of his supporters in place during Midterms, then those newly elected officials will ram as much legislation as they can through 2024 to change rules and policies to work in their favor so that if Trump does in fact run and whoever his democratic opponent wins, it will all be technically “legal” to challenge the results and install Trump whether he actually won or not.
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