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Dennis Donovan

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Wed Jan 22, 2025, 11:22 AM Jan 22

NPR: Some Trump voters express reservations with his sweeping Jan. 6 pardons [View all]

NPR - Some Trump voters express reservations with his sweeping Jan. 6 pardons

January 22, 2025
5:00 AM ET
By Ashley Lopez, Elena Moore

David Brown, an independent voter in South Carolina, has mostly voted for Democrats in the last decade. But he changed things up last year.

He said he voted for President Trump in the presidential election because immigration was one of his key issues and he felt he didn't know enough about the Democratic nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Just one day into the presidency he voted for, though, Brown didn't approve of some of Trump's early decisions.

He disapproves most of Trump's decision to pardon roughly 1,500 people who participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021.

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"It was an insurrection because to me, he incited those people, but he let them go," Brown said on Tuesday. "I don't agree with it."

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Dude says he's mad about the J6 pardons, but voted for him anyway, despite Trump repeatedly saying that was going to pardon the J6ers long before election day. That's the definition of a dumbass.
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