In an incident that was about what would be expected from the Swamp and its minions, Congressman and Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) freaked out during a recent interview on ABC’s “This Week” about the idea that Trump will pardon the January 6 prisoners. The interview came on Sunday, December 15, with host George Stephanopoulos.
As background, speaking to NBC’s Kristen Welker on her show “Meet the Press,” President-elect Donald Trump said, “I’m gonna look at everything. We’re gonna look at individual cases…but I’m gonna be acting very quickly.” Clarifying Trump’s timeline, Welker asked, “Within your first one hundred days? First day?” Trump responded, “First day.” Welker, seemingly caught off guard by the speed at which Trump anticipates acting on the J6ers, asked again, “To issue these pardons?”
Trump continued, slamming the conditions to which the J6 prisoners have been subjected for years at this point. “These people have been there. how long is it three or four years?” Trump said. “You know, by the way, they’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that you need to be allowed to be open.”
It was about that idea that Rep. Schiff freaked out during his interview on ABC, declaring that the American people did not vote for President-elect Trump so that he could “pardon criminals” involved in the January 6 protest. His comments came when host George Stephanopoulos asked him, “How about the question about the January 6th pardons?”
Schiff, freaking out, declared that it would send a bad message for Trump to pardon those prisoners, saying, “Well, I am greatly concerned about it. First of all, that he could pardon people that beat police officers, gouged them, bear sprayed them, but also, even beyond that, just the general message it would send, George.”
Continuing, the senator-elect declared that the bad message for America would come from it being the case “that his first pardons are going to go to people who sought through the use of violence at the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power, that played some role in that. Really, that’s who he wants to pardon?”
Schiff added, declaring that Americans voted for Trump for reasons other than wanting the J6 prisoners to be pardoned, snapped, “The American people, I think, voted for him in part because they wanted something done about crime, not because they wanted to see him pardon criminals attacking the government.”
Still not done with his rant about the president-elect’s pledge to pardon the J6ers, the senator-elect claimed, “They want something done about Fentanyl, they want something done about, in California, smash and grab robberies. This is not what they had in mind, not political revenge, not rewarding people who participated in an insurrection to stop the transfer of power.”
Watch him here:
The comments from Trump regarding the J6 prisoners follow the controversial move from President Joe Biden to issue a sweeping pardon for his son Hunter, providing him immunity for actions since 2014. The Tribune recently reported on the pardon which read, “Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN A Full and Unconditional Pardon”
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