The Guardian: Trump uses Hunter Biden pardon to hint potential clemency for January 6 insurrectionists

[Dennis Donovan]

The Guardian - (archived: https://archive.ph/xN5TU ) Trump uses Hunter Biden pardon to hint potential clemency for January 6 insurrectionists

Trump says Joe Biden’s pardon of his son is a ‘miscarriage of justice’ in latest supportive reference to convicted rioters

Robert Tait in Washington
Mon 2 Dec 2024 13.05 EST

Donald Trump seized on Hunter Biden’s pardon to drop one of his strongest hints yet that he intends to grant clemency to at least some of the instigators and participants of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a mob trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” the US president-elect posted on his Truth Social platform.

It was the latest in a series of supportive comments by Trump on behalf of those convicted for their part in the onslaught, which resulted in the deaths of five people at the time. Additionally, four police officers involved in trying to beat back the rioters killed themselves in the days and months after the attack.

Now the granting of a pardon by the sitting president, Joe Biden, to his son appears to have been taken by Trump as a fresh justification.

The 2021 assault spawned one of the biggest criminal investigations in US history, resulting in federal charges being filed against nearly 1,500 people. Around 1,000 have either been found guilty or pleaded guilty.

The investigation is ongoing. The FBI said last month it was seeking nine people in connection with violent assaults on police officers on the day.

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[Ocelot II]

1. He was going to do it anyway.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Bullshit on The Guardian.

Orange Criminal has been talking about pardoning J6 insurrectionists for years.

[proud patriot]

11. Fuck the media framing on this

they are straight up lying to people . Grrr

[The Unmitigated Gall]

12. Watching them tow the line is sickening. nt

[CincyDem]

3. Just another bullshit way for R's to claim "they made me do it".

He was 1,000% going to pardon the J6 gang. Who in their right f’ing mind believes he would hold back if Joe did not pardon hunter. On what f’ing planet???

[republianmushroom]

4. Trump pardoned his in-law Charles Kushner

[Dem4life1234]

5. The difference

Hunter didn't go in beating up cops and putting people's lives at risk.


He can't whine about law and order attacking illegal immigrants minding their business and then pardon those violent creeps..is it because they were white? Two sets of laws in this racist country.

[0rganism]

6. He's been promising to do that for years already

So business as usual, then.

[Autumn]

7. Fuck that crock of shit. The fucker has been saying for years now he was going to pardon them

I'm done with this shit.

[Prairie Gates]

8. What HINT? He's been loudly screaming for two years that he'll pardon all of them

What is this revisionist babble? Hinting? It was one of his primary campaign platforms: he will pardon ALL of the January 6 "political prisoners."

[Initech]

9. Fuck the J6 rioters. They got off light.

And fuck Steve Bannon too. They should all be rotting in prison.

[City Lights]

10. Give me a break. He hinted at that months ago.