Incoming vice-president says people who ‘committed violence’ shouldn’t be pardoned as surveys suggest blanket pardons would be unpopular with AmericansVance says Trump supporters who ‘committed violence’ during Capitol attack shouldn’t be pardonedIf Jack Smith’s report into his abortive prosecution of Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election ever comes out, it will happen this week.The report is currently held up by legal wrangling, and over the weekend, Smith resigned his position as justice department special counsel tasked with bringing charges against the ex-president.Why would Deranged Jack Smith be allowed to issue a ‘report’ on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me, strictly for political purposes, when he was thrown off the case and ultimately dismissed by the DOJ. Therefore, to put it nicely, he was illegitimately involved in this political persecution, and all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by our hapless government were, simply put, wasted! He has already filled thousands of rejected statements and documents against me, which were a ‘joke,’ and the public just voted for me, in a landslide, to be their President!I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will. I think that energy is going to bring them down. I think a better supply chain is going to bring them down.Let’s set it at 100 days and move all the way back and figure a way we can do this in the near term to make sure that the solution is solid, it’s sustainable, and that this war ends so that we stop the carnage. I think that’s going to be very, very important to do. It’s going to be important for our national security. It’s a part of our vital national interests, and it’s also good for Europe as well and the globe as well. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/13/trump-vance-transition-inauguration-politics-updates
Author : Chris Stein
Publish date : 2025-01-13 14:44:00
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JD Vance walks back Trump’s pledge to pardon January 6 protesters on day one – US politics live
