Trump’s Opening Act of Contempt

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Sure, lefty believe your pravda press.

I believe the courts, Nazi.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

The Jan. 6 rioters did attack police who were defending
the Capital Building. They were sentenced in a court of law
and now Toxic Trump pardons them.

That Leonard Peltier commutation must have REALLY pissed you off, eh? He actually killed two federal agents.

 

[uihawk82]

New tear thread to add to the master list. Nice.

Yes, and I bet you would just open the windows of your house and let in the thieves and assaulters on your family.

Your over the top replies only tell us you are too dumb to mount any kind of reasonable argument. I like to see how simpleminded they are.

 

[Hawkstate1]

I believe the courts, Nazi.

I believe it is your side that does not believe in free speech, and support totalitarian DEI objectives. So are you more of a Stalinist, or Nazi?

 

[SB_SB]

As I said before, we have Trump in the office due to Biden/Kamala having been in office and Tim to be in office. That wasn't unforseen and the Dems have only themselves to blame.

There's plenty of blame to go around. The Dem's had nothing to do with the republicans picking trump, that's all on them.

 

[SB_SB]

I believe it is your side that does not believe in free speech, and support totalitarian DEI objectives. So are you more of a Stalinist, or Nazi?

Just know that your side is waving the confederate flag in the same way the Nazi's waved their flag. You can try to hide your bad character but the truth comes out in your actions.

 

[Hawkstate1]

Just know that your side is waving the confederate flag in the same way the Nazi's waved their flag. You can try to hide your bad character but the truth comes out in your actions.

I've never seen a Trump supporter wave a confederate flag. We support America. You must be confused, are you trans, pre-op?

 

[SB_SB]

I've never seen a Trump supporter wave a confederate flag. We support America. You must be confused, are you trans, pre-op?

One thing I'm sure of is I'm not blind, which you seem to have a problem with. I would think someone with your disabilities would be all in on DEI.

 

[stickman80]

At the time I remember being thankful the police didn't open fire....now I wish they had.

Can't pardon the deads.

 

[Hawkstate1]

One thing I'm sure of is I'm not blind, which you seem to have a problem with. I would think someone with your disabilities would be all in on DEI.

So you are trans, thanks for confirming.

 

[jneffer]

I believe it is your side that does not believe in free speech, and support totalitarian DEI objectives. So are you more of a Stalinist, or Nazi?

great point

nazis were famous for their support of DEI initiatives

 

[SB_SB]

So you are trans, thanks for confirming.

I know you think you're trying to insult me but the joke is on you because while I'm not trans, I really don't care if others are. It makes me think you're a closest case. You wouldn't by chance be Lindsey Graham would you?

 

[Hawkstate1]

I know you think you're trying to insult me but the joke is on you because while I'm not trans, I really don't care if others are. It makes me think you're a closest case. You wouldn't by chance be Lindsey Graham would

 

[Hawkstate1]

No I believe in science, there are two genders as my President stated in his speech.

 

[joelbc1]

So you are trans, thanks for confirming.

Hawk state….are “trans” folks the MAGA version of “Jews” in your world?

 

[SB_SB]

No I believe in science, there are two genders as my President stated in his speech.

A little clue for you, believing in something doesn't make it true. You actually have to understand it first before your belief is anywhere close to valid. It's too bad you didn't take trumps "science" advice during covid.

 

[Hawkstate1]

Hawk state….are “trans” folks the MAGA version of “Jews” in your world?

No, not at all. I am libertarian, live and let live. I believe in promoting by merit, not DEI initiatives that social engineer the leftist "ideal" state. Those days are over.

 

[SB_SB]

Hawk state….are “trans” folks the MAGA version of “Jews” in your world?

I'm sure he/she/it hates them equally as much. And don't get him stated on Black people.

 

[Hawkstate1]

A little clue for you, believing in something doesn't make it true. You actually have to understand it first before your belief is anywhere close to valid. It's too bad you didn't take trumps "science" advice during covid.

Yes, you should have worn the cloth masks that criminal Fauci suggested.

 

[RicoSuave102954]

At least 20 people who joined the attack did carry firearms onto the Capitol grounds, including Christopher Alberts, who wore body armor containing metal plates and carried a 9-millimeter pistol loaded with 12 rounds of ammunition, along with a separate 12-round holster that included hollow-point bullets. He was sentenced to 84 months in prison after a jury convicted him of nine charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers, but received a full pardon on Monday. More than 140 police officers were assaulted that day; Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, was killed, and other officers were smashed in the head with weapons; they were bruised, burned and lacerated; four later died by suicide.
“My concern is that people are going to believe that if they attack me or members of my family physically that Donald Trump will absolve them of their acts,” Michael Fanone, a former police officer attacked by the crowd on Jan. 6, told The Times. “And who is to say he wouldn’t?”
For many of the officers who were pepper-sprayed or hit with two-by-fours or beaten that day, the thought that the nation’s chief executive would forgive such actions is despicable. “Releasing those who assaulted us from blame would be a desecration of justice,” Aquilino Gonell, a former Capitol Police sergeant who suffered lasting injuries in the riot, wrote in a Times Opinion guest essay this month. “If Mr. Trump wants to heal our divided nation, he’ll let their convictions stand.”
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Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, which helped organize the assault, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy for assembling $20,000 worth of assault weaponry intended to be used at the Capitol. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who sentenced Mr. Rhodes, called him “an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the Republic and the very fabric of our democracy.” Judge Mehta later said he was appalled by the idea that Mr. Rhodes could receive a pardon.
“The notion that Stewart Rhodes could be absolved is frightening and ought to be frightening to anyone who cares about democracy in this country,” the judge said last month.
Mr. Rhodes was not pardoned, but his sentence was commuted, and he was scheduled to be immediately released.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys militia, was described by a federal judge as the “ultimate leader” of the rebellion, though he was arrested and barred from Washington as soon as he arrived there and didn’t enter the Capitol. Nonetheless, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison after the Justice Department said that by “inflaming the group with rage against law enforcement and then turning it loose on the Capitol, Tarrio did far more harm than he could have as an individual rioter.” Two weeks ago, on Jan. 6, his lawyer wrote to Mr. Trump asking for a pardon, describing his client as “nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values,” and his request was granted on Monday.
Judge Lamberth, a senior federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the D.C. District Court, has been on the bench since 1987 and has seen it all, having served with the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps in Vietnam and as a federal prosecutor in Washington during the 1970s. But in pronouncing one sentence against a rioter last January, he said he had never seen such a level of “meritless justifications of criminal activity” in the political mainstream.
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“I have been dismayed to see distortions and outright falsehoods seep into the public consciousness,” he wrote. “I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history, claiming rioters behaved ‘in an orderly fashion’ like ordinary tourists or martyrizing convicted Jan. 6 defendants as ‘political prisoners’ or even, incredibly, ‘hostages.’ That is all preposterous. But the court fears that such destructive, misguided rhetoric could presage further danger to our country.”
On his first day back in public office, Mr. Trump provoked the danger that the judge dreads, setting loose hundreds of people found guilty of participating in a violent assault on the nation’s Capitol — not because they committed no crimes but because they committed their crimes in his name. In doing so, he invites such crimes to happen again.

Time to move on, the January 6th Inquisitions are over.

America was freed yesterday. The scales of justice were rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government was ended.

Biden pardoned all those who took part in and directed this political sabotage of our judicial system, where is the outcry from the left?

 

[Hawkstate1]

I'm sure he/she/it hates them equally as much. And don't get him stated on Black people.

Are you leftists still trying to drive that old wedge, blacks voted for Trump in record numbers. You guys can only keep them down so long.

 

[Sullivan]

On Jan. 6, 2021, Philip Sean Grillo, a former Republican district leader in Queens, jumped through a broken window at the U.S. Capitol with a megaphone. He pushed his way past a line of Capitol Police officers and opened the exterior doors of the Rotunda to allow other rioters to enter the building and trash it. “We stormed the Capitol!” he exulted on video, and was seen smoking marijuana and high-fiving other Donald Trump supporters who were fighting the police. “We shut it down! We did it!”
Nearly three years later, a federal jury convicted Mr. Grillo of multiple offenses. But he did not lose heart: Last month, when he was sentenced to a year in prison, he had a special taunt for the federal district judge who sentenced him, Royce Lamberth.
“Trump’s going to pardon me anyways,” he yelled at the judge, just before he was handcuffed and led away.
He was right. On Monday evening, several hours after President Trump was inaugurated, he fulfilled a promise he had repeatedly made to pardon nearly all the rioters who attacked and desecrated the Capitol in 2021 to prevent Joe Biden’s victory from being certified. Mr. Grillo and about 1,500 other rioters received full pardons from Mr. Trump, while 14 others received commuted sentences.
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A presidential pardon for Mr. Grillo not only makes a mockery of his jury’s verdict and of Judge Lamberth’s sentence. Mr. Trump’s mass pardon effectively makes a mockery of a justice system that has labored for four years to charge nearly 1,600 people who tried to stop the Constitution in its tracks, a system that convicted 1,100 of them and that sentenced more than 600 of them to prison.
Most important, the mass pardon sends a message to the country and the world that violating the law in support of Mr. Trump and his movement will be rewarded, especially when considered alongside his previous pardons of his advisers. It loudly proclaims, from the nation’s highest office, that the rioters did nothing wrong, that violence is a perfectly legitimate form of political expression and that no price need be paid by those who seek to disrupt a sacred constitutional transfer of power.
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The presidential pardon system is usually abused in modern times by departing presidents giving a final gift to cronies, donors or relatives, and those breaches of trust were bad enough. Mr. Biden issued dubious pardons to his son and, as he walked out the door, several other family members, as well as pre-emptive pardons to an array of current and former government officials for noncriminal actions, all to protect them from potential Republican retribution — an expansive use of pardon power that further warps its purpose.
But what Mr. Trump did Monday is of an entirely different scope. He used a mass pardon at the beginning of his term to write a false chapter of American history, to try to erase a crime committed against the foundations of American democracy.
To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump, and should send an alarming signal to Democrats and Republicans alike. Members of both parties had to protect themselves that day from the mob, which made little distinction in political affiliation or ideology as they called for the execution of Vice President Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House. In this pardon, Mr. Trump forgave and thus provided encouragement for domestic terrorists who put members of Congress in danger of their lives; the long-term cost will be paid by the entire political system, not just his critics.

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For four years, he has tried to stage-manage the erasure of his role in inspiring the assault. It was only hours after the attack that his allies in the House and on Fox News began sowing doubt about the motivation for the rioters, claiming it was organized by leftists masquerading as Trump supporters. By 2022, when he was under investigation by the House Jan. 6 committee, he began referring to the rioters as “political prisoners” persecuted by Democrats and openly suggesting that the F.B.I. had helped stage the attack. By the time his presidential campaign was in full swing last year, he had completely transformed the day’s monstrous bloody fury into what he called a “day of love” and insisted falsely that none of his supporters had brought guns to the Capitol.
But Mr. Trump’s dense fog of misinformation can’t change what really happened on that terrible day, which, as the Times editorial board wrote at the time, “touched the darkest memories and fears of democracies the world over.” It was a sentiment in the early aftermath of the attack echoed even by senior Republicans, some of whom would go on to vote to impeach Mr. Trump for his role in instigating it.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/opinion/trump-jan-6-pardons.html

How much prison time did the NYU protestors get last April when they kidnapped the janitor? 0 days in jail.

More Than 100 Arrested At NYU Protest As Cops Tear Down Pro-Palestinian Encampment

New York University students and faculty were among those taken into custody after rocks, chairs and water bottles were thrown at officers clearing the scene, police said.

www.yahoo.com

 

[SB_SB]

Yes, you should have worn the cloth masks that criminal Fauci suggested.

I'll tell you what, I'll do what Fauci said if you'll do what trump said. You might want to check Amazon for one of those trump lights that you shove up your ass. You'll love it, it's in the shape of his mushroom. So for you, you'll be cured and aroused at the same time.

 

[Hawkstate1]

I'll tell you what, I'll do what Fauci said if you'll do what trump said. You might want to check Amazon for one of those trump lights that you shove up your ass. You'll love it, it's in the shape of his mushroom. So for you, you'll be cured and aroused at the same time.

If you are referring to the lie that the left keeps repeating about Trump and bleach, you are a complete imbecile. And I am very sure you are familiar with sticking things up your ass.

 

[RicoSuave102954]

I'll tell you what, I'll do what Fauci said if you'll do what trump said. You might want to check Amazon for one of those trump lights that you shove up your ass. You'll love it, it's in the shape of his mushroom. So for you, you'll be cured and aroused at the same time.

Fauci will be forever remembered as a fraud and a criminal who received a pardon.

 

[joelbc1]

No, not at all. I am libertarian, live and let live. I believe in promoting by merit, not DEI initiatives that social engineer the leftist "ideal" state. Those days are over.

No, I fear they are just redefining themselves…

 

[SB_SB]

If you are referring to the lie that the left keeps repeating about Trump and bleach, you are a complete imbecile. And I am very sure you are familiar with sticking things up your ass.

Why are you so angry, I thought you believed in trump, you should be ok with everything he says. Please tell me you're not questioning your supreme leader.

 

[SB_SB]

Fauci will be forever remembered as a fraud and a criminal who received a pardon.

It kind of makes sense that trump would have people working for him that were frauds and criminals, that's exactly what trump is.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

I believe it is your side that does not believe in free speech, and support totalitarian DEI objectives. So are you more of a Stalinist, or Nazi?

Dodged my statement. Could give a f*ck about DEI. Where is the stolen election evidence?

 

[Hawkstate1]

Why are you so angry, I thought you believed in trump, you should be ok with everything he says. Please tell me you're not questioning your supreme leader.

Me? Too funny. Yesterday was a great day for America, I am very happy. And it also brings me great joy, schadenfreude, to see the enemies of America, such as yourself, in such pain. Life is very good.

 

[joelbc1]

It kind of makes sense that trump would have people working for him that were frauds and criminals, that's exactly what trump is.

Birds of a feather…..

 

[joelbc1]

Me? Too funny. Yesterday was a great day for America, I am very happy. And it also brings me great joy, schadenfreude, to see the enemies of America, such as yourself, in such pain. Life is very good.

“Schadenfreude”…an interesting choice of words.

 

[Scruddy]

Yes, and I bet you would just open the windows of your house and let in the thieves and assaulters on your family.

Your over the top replies only tell us you are too dumb to mount any kind of reasonable argument. I like to see how simpleminded they are.

Cool story you came up with there. I enjoy seeing the short bus kids playing pretend.

 

[SB_SB]

Me? Too funny. Yesterday was a great day for America, I am very happy. And it also brings me great joy, schadenfreude, to see the enemies of America, such as yourself, in such pain. Life is very good.

The joke is on you. I'm one of the boomers who everyone hates, I have millions and another 4 years of trump is a win for me, I hope to double my money. I want to personally thank fools like you for allowing me to double my money and live the good life while you're still worried about the price of eggs. You keep eating those eggs, I'm eating steak.

 

[Hawkstate1]

The joke is on you. I'm one of the boomers who everyone hates, I have millions and another 4 years of trump is a win for me, I hope to double my money. I want to personally thank fools like you for allowing me to double my money and live the good life while you're still worried about the price of eggs. You keep eating those eggs, I'm eating steak.

Yeah I love to hear you leftists talk about eggs like it some kind of inside joke. Me I don't believe you have millions, most of you commies are teachers or healthcare flunkies or government workers. You are just another lieing lefty.

 

[Huey Grey]

Yeah I love to hear you leftists talk about eggs like it some kind of inside joke. Me I don't believe you have millions, most of you commies are teachers or healthcare flunkies or government workers. You are just another lieing lefty.

Could be wrong, but pretty sure SB isn't a leftist.

 

[SB_SB]

Yeah I love to hear you leftists talk about eggs like it some kind of inside joke. Me I don't believe you have millions, most of you commies are teachers or healthcare flunkies or government workers. You are just another lieing lefty.

Me, IT/Technology. Yes, I have millions. Thanks man, it's a win-win situation, you "think" you won the lottery, and I actually did. We're both happy.

 

[Randon]

If I was a Capitol police officer today it might be best to start looking for a different job. It's obvious, the president doesn't have your back. He blanket pardoned 1500 thugs last night, many of whom beat the hell out of your fellow officers on January 6, 2021. A few deaths occurred among your ranks, including some suicides, in addition to the 140 officers injured. Trump blatantly lied to you and the American people when he said he would determine pardons on a case-by-case basis. And yesterday in his inaugural address he said he was committed to restoring law and order across the country. Obviously it didn't pertain to protecting the Capitol police force.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Yeah I love to hear you leftists talk about eggs like it some kind of inside joke. Me I don't believe you have millions, most of you commies are teachers or healthcare flunkies or government workers. You are just another lieing lefty.

So you think it is ok that a bunch of people stormed the capitol building during the election certification without any evidence to suggest the election was stolen, after being refuted by 60 court cases, just the endless claims, without evidence, by the loser, that it was stolen. Those people are patriots in your mind, not gullible rubes….?

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

There's plenty of blame to go around. The Dem's had nothing to do with the republicans picking trump, that's all on them.

But they made it easy.