Trump’s Ugly New Rants About Jan. 6 Pardons Suddenly Seem More Ominous

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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At last week’s debate, Donald Trump ranted that the January 6 defendants are “so innocent,” raging that President Biden is “destroying their lives.” Then at a rally, Trump called for their immediate release, while proclaiming victory over a big Supreme Court ruling that seemingly weakens the cases against the attackers. Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann just co-authored a good new piece explaining that the ruling will only impact a small percentage of those cases. Still, if Trump wins, he’ll pardon untold numbers of those convicted. So we talked to Weissmann, who went deep on on that ruling and on why Trump’s pardon threats endanger the rule of law at its foundations. Listen to this episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:38.0	Donald Trump has dangerously escalated his rhetoric about January 6th.
1:42.9	At the debate Thursday, he ranted that the rioters are,
1:45.8	quote, so innocent and rage that President Biden should be ashamed for destroying their lives.
1:52.8	Then, at a subsequent rally, Trump called for the January 6th hostages, his word, to be released
1:58.9	immediately. This came after the Supreme Court issued a big ruling
2:03.4	that the Justice Department has misused a federal law in prosecuting those who attacked the
2:08.6	Capitol. Trump called this a huge victory. But in an important new piece, former federal prosecutor
2:15.8	and legal commentator Andrew Weissman explains that in fact the
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