“Trump DOJ exonerates Jan 6 rioters”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. So what does a president sitting in the |
| 0:11.8 | mid-30s in terms of public approval riding a wave of rebukes from inside his own political |
| 0:17.3 | coalition due to sort of turn things around for himself? |
| 0:25.9 | If you guessed exonerate the most violent insurrectionists who were convicted of seditious conspiracy on January 6th, then you win. |
| 0:29.4 | In an exercise it increasingly reads more like The Onion than real news, Donald Trump today |
| 0:34.5 | moved to clear 12 leaders of the oathkeepers and proud boys convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States of America. |
| 0:42.9 | In the words of Congressman Jamie Raskin, it turns the Department of Justice into, quote, in-house counsel for the oathkeepers and proud boys. |
| 0:51.9 | While Donald Trump commuted the sentences of the oathkeepers and proud boys on day one |
| 0:55.8 | of his second term, what the Trump Justice Department is asking for is to erase their guilty |
| 1:01.2 | verdicts and dismiss the charges with prejudice. A dismissal with prejudice prevents the government |
| 1:07.0 | from bringing the cases again. Congressman Jamie Raskin calls it, quote, an appalling and dangerous turn of events, adding, quote, |
| 1:15.0 | the same DOJ that prosecuted these men and secured their criminal convictions beyond any reasonable |
| 1:20.8 | doubt is now asking a court to whitewash their crimes and pretend that they never led |
| 1:26.3 | the insurrectionist mob that beat, |
| 1:29.3 | crushed indoors, wounded, injured, and hospitalized 140 of our law enforcement officers, |
| 1:35.9 | disfiguring and disabling some of them for life. |
| 1:39.7 | These motions are part of Donald Trump's continuing campaign to placate and curry favor with the extreme |
| 1:45.3 | right, which acts as his private sworn militia. If that's not enough for you, if you're not |
| 1:51.8 | disgusted yet, Todd Blanche, who now runs DOJ after Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi, says you should |
| 1:58.7 | be happy about all of that, happy to see Donald Trump use DOJ like this |
| 2:03.9 | to punish Trump's political adversaries and critics and reward his allies. Watch. |
| 2:11.7 | So he is somebody who has high expectations for his cabinet and for this administration. |
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