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“He called that rally knowing that that was going to be in D.C. where things could get potentially out of hand, and he’s now saying he would do clemency for the nonviolent. But he could have done that when he was president. He could have taken responsibility.
“He could have said that — not the violent people, obviously that’s a bird of a different feather — but on the people that were there just as protesters and kind of got caught up in it, he could have granted clemency to them and he chose not to because I think he was told that if he did that, he could potentially risk being convicted at his Senate impeachment trial.
“So the idea that now he’s going to help people that were railroaded, he could have done that before he left office. I think there are people that came because he said to protest the election. I don’t think that they intended to do it. Some of the people that were convicted of things like trespassing, you see videos where you have police officers actually motioning for people to go in. You’ll see that, where they were just taking pictures in Statuary Hall.
“And so the issue with that is obviously they would not have been there but for the Trump rally. And those were his people. And so the question is somebody that was there and)nonviolent probably didn’t have intent to do anything when they showed up that day. He could have done things to potentially alleviate burdens on them and he didn’t. Now, he says he’s going to do it, but he didn’t when he was president.” – Ron DeSantis, today on MSNBC.
Most rioters weren’t arrested until Trump was out of office.
WATCH: @RonDeSantis calls out Trump for promising to pardon nonviolent January 6 protestors after being too scared to do so as president.
“On the people that were there just as protesters and kind of got caught up in it, he could have granted clemency to them and chose not to.” pic.twitter.com/OywHO8nuHF
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) December 18, 2023