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Trump's pardons will embolden Proud Boys, other far-right groups, say experts
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lincolnman
And there it is - the crazed rantings of pure evil...
These are Trump's supporters - the ones he defends and pardons - and these are examples of the type of violence and chaos they want to bring to America...
And it's coming - you voted for it MAGA-friends, now you're going to get it...and all the blame...
TaiwanIsNotChina
Yes it will. As will Musk's nazi salute.
Bob Fosse
The ‘proud boy’ in the photo is so proud he has to hide his identity. What a loser.
wallace
Support for the extreme rightwing will backfire.
bass4funk
Hmmm…doubt it, and it’s not so much support for them, more like injustice done towards them.
Bob Fosse
Remember how you are always complaining that ‘the libs’ ignore context?
A photo still is not the same as a video.
Also certainly not the same as making the same gesture while shouting about ‘saving civilization’.
Try again.
Bob Fosse
Including the 69 pardoned who had pleaded guilty for assaulting police with a deadly weapon?
Remember all those posts you made about ignoring police orders, fafi, it’s all their fault etc? Only applies to the darker complexion?
bass4funk
Yes
Assault is bad, I get it, but murder?
https://apnews.com/article/leonard-peltier-biden-pardons-eba525b713f2ec739b84aa4426366775
Race again? Here we go….
Bob Fosse
You claimed several times recently that Vance is “shrewd”.
He stated on Fox News that those who committed violence obviously should not be pardoned.
Now you disagree with him. Which of you is wrong?
wallace
bass4funk
You stated you have a policeman brother but you willingly support violent people who attacked Capitol police officers.
bass4funk
No, I don’t support violence. But they served enough time whereas the thugs from the summer of 2020 didn’t serve anytime for looting, rioting and injuring over 6000 officers and left $2 billion in damages.
bass4funk
Yes, I love Vance, but he’s not the President.
Bob Fosse
You keep repeating this but it simply isn’t true. There were over 14,000 arrests and over 300 people were charged with federal crimes and imprisoned.
Did you not know this?
Can’t you answer the question?
wallace
The commutations cover the sentences for 14 far-right extremists from the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who were convicted or charged with seditious conspiracy.
Their guilty convictions and criminal records remain in place.
wallace
There were prison sentences for some including murder. They were not trying to overthrow the government.
https://kevscohall.medium.com/the-truth-about-blm-riot-arrests-b5d25015db
Tokyo Guy
Well, yeah, course it will embolden them. That was his entire reason for doing it. So he has a larger group of thugs to wind up and send off to cause mayhem wherever he wants it caused.
Tokyo Guy
I'm seeing some reports online - not yet corroborated, I should add - that at least a couple of the people pardoned have already reoffended and been arrested again, and this time for state crimes...which the President can't pardon.
If true, this would be the funniest thing ever.
bass4funk
It’s very true and you don’t speak for me.
And only one person killed who was Trump supporter
Yes, now if Some of these people MURDERED someone you would have a valentine point to your outrage, but sadly, a riot doesn’t qualify as a valid one.
I did
bass4funk
Yes, “if” true
lincolnman
No "if" about it....
"Jan. 6 rioter whose case was tossed after Trump pardon arrested on pending weapons charges".
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jan-6-rioter-case-tossed-after-trump-pardon/story?id=117982390
More violent criminals released to rob, pillage, and plunder innocent Americans....
And we know who to blame...
Bob Fosse
Facts don’t speak for anyone. They are facts.
Relax, calm down. Stick to the facts. No need for valentine thanks.
Besides, you have made absolutely zero sense. None. Not a lick of it.
Raw Beer
Yeah, sounds like your typical agents provocateurs.
iknowall
More liberal "experts" making emotionally charged over-the-top predictions.
lincolnman
Indeed - far right agents and provocateurs.
Read the article again - the folks bragging about putting "heads on pikes" and bringing "nooses" were all far-right Trump supporters...the kind of folks he's released...
ClippetyClop
Crazy isn't it. I mean, it's not as if the President releases hundreds of convicted violent far right nutters, fires people who aren't, dines with Nazis, calls them 'good people', has a right hand man who supports actual German Nazis and gives Nazi salutes to hordes of far right supporters.
Nothing to worry about I'm sure.
Harry_Gatto
Next thing you know Trump will be adding the "f" back on to the end of his surname.
GuruMick
On the Nazi salute thing....I can see a discriminatory problem where , at a Baseball game, an amputee with only one arm, tries to join in with the crowd doing a "Mexican Wave " and gets accused of doing a Nazi salute .
Could happen....
GuruMick
"Proud Boys " sounds like a gay bands name.
Proud to be out !!!!
Blackstar
Proud Boys = Brown Shirts
1glenn
The felon in the White House pardoned felons he sent to attempt a coup d'etat. What a surprise.
nishikat
So?
nishikat
There is talk that Trump will pardon Diddy if Diddy helps Trump with some new Coin and can make Trump some money. Trump is always up for a deal and has the power to pardon anyone.
bass4funk
Well, you don't have any valid points, you are just driven by pure emotion
I think it's actually the opposite truth be told.
bass4funk
Biden as well, an FBI murderer and a child molester, I think that would count as far worse.
You tell me.
Leonard Peltier, who was serving a life sentence for the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a standoff at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, will now move to home confinement.
Former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan was convicted in 2011 in what was infamously called the “kids-for-cash” scandal, where he took kickbacks from for-profit detention centers in exchange for wrongly sending juveniles to their facilities. The case was widely considered to be one of the worst judicial scandals in Pennsylvania history.
Like all of the other nearly 1,500 people who got commutations from Biden this week, Conahan was freed from prison due to Covid. His house arrest was set to end in 2026.
The misconduct of Conahan and another Luzerne County judge led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to throw out 4,000 juvenile convictions, and the discredited state judges were ordered to pay $200 million to the victims, according to the Associated Press.
Yeah, the left as usual have nothing....
TaiwanIsNotChina
Remember your team likes for-profit prisons, unpaid prison labor, and being "tough" on crime.
TaiwanIsNotChina
I don't know, but it is clear that releasing 1500 police assaulters is worse.
Zaphod
What "experts"? The talking heads in the legacy media?
TaiwanIsNotChina
Police officers died on January 6th. They didn't get into car accidents on the way to work.
Collectively, no. There is only so much damage a now 70 year old man can do (unless he is president of the United States).
5 police officers died from either the event or the effects of the event. And then we have the 174 officers who may have had life altering injuries from the event.
Only in the MAGA looneysphere where two deaths is a tragedy but five deaths is a statistic.
In the civilized world we don't lock people up for life at enormous public expense (we don't kill them at equally enormous expense either) unless the crime is particularly heinous like seditious conspiracy.
Link or nonsense.
TaiwanIsNotChina
*don't result in life imprisonment
ArtistAtLarge
The experts are correct.
bass4funk
It would seem so.
iknowall
More far left alarmism.
We saw what that got them in the recent election.
iknowall
False.
NO police officers died on Jan. 6th at, around, or near the Capitol.
ZERO.
1glenn
Some of the nutters he pardoned have already been re-arrested for new fire-arm related offenses. The scum of the earth.
1glenn
About 140 of those pardoned violently injured police officers. Several police officers died after the attempted coup. Of course he pardoned them.