Trump pardons nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on inauguration day

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• Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those pardoned include Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, who faced a sentence of 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy. Tarrio’s attorney told the Associated Press he expects Tarrio to face release Monday evening.

  This is wonderful because he

  • Wasn’t even there
  • Is only guilty to writing a silly manifesto about illegally & peacefully occupying the Capitol and demanding a recount or another election
  • Content was completely non-violent; mentioned ‘hype men!’, never mentioned guns

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Writing up a plan organizing illegal activity is pretty bad to be fair

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    • Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      True, but writing up a plan for an illegal sit-in where they explicitly said they might have to pull fire alarms is not 22 years in jail bad.

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• airrow@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  finally released the “hostages”

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yep! Not happy he pardoned people who were violent but I’ll take it

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Earlier I made the prediction that Mr. Trump wouldn’t pardon anyone from J6, as they had outran their usefulness to him.

  Well, sadly, I stand corrected.

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