Replies to post #508340 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Here we go again, calling his criminality 'courageous'.

“He did not have to do this. He had a lot of opposition within his own party,” Pierce said. “I do think it showed a lot of courage by President Trump to pardon everybody, so we are obviously grateful for that.” Pierce said clemency for all the defendants was justified because, he contends, they couldn’t get a fair trial in the nation’s heavily Democratic capital.

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You can't deny Trump encourages lawlessness as long as it's done for him.

“The implications are clear,” said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University historian. “Trump will go to great lengths to protect those who act in his name. This is the culmination of his effort to rewrite Jan 6, in this case using his presidential muscle to free those who were part of a violent assault on the Capitol.”

As defendants celebrated their release outside lockups across the country, the federal prosecutor’s office in Washington that spent the last four years charging rioters filed a flurry of motions to dismiss cases that have yet to go to trial. The motions were marked with the name of the man Trump has named to lead, at least temporarily, the capital’s U.S. attorney’s office — Ed Martin, a board member of a group called the Patriot Freedom Project, which portrays the Jan. 6 defendants as victims of political persecution.

The former leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, who were convicted of seditious conspiracy in the most serious charges brought by the Justice Department, were both released from prison hours after Trump signed the clemency order. Stewart Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, was serving an 18-year prison sentence, and Enrique Tarrio, of Miami, was serving a 22-year sentence."

Yours is another i lost from the mail. Not sure how it's possible to reply to one, then go back to the board to read more without losing messages. I know you always lost them if you caught them in next 20, but that isn't happening here. Shrug.