Rep. Jim Clyburn has argued that Donald Trump has every right to pardon the patriots who were involved in the January 6th protests.
Appearing on CNN’s Meet The Press, Clyburn said he supported the president’s right to pardon those convicted of federal crimes but that Trump should examine them on a “case-by-case” basis.
He explained:
I think that it’s the president’s prerogative to pardon whomever he wishes to pardon. That’s up to the president.
I favor the pardon system … It ought to be used to forgive and to provide a second chance. So if you go a case-by-case basis, you look at all of those people, some people may have gotten caught up in the emotions and maybe a pardon for them would be okay.
But if you’re using the American flag, plunging it at the enforcement officers, you have injured a law enforcement officer and you’re spraying whatever the stuff was they were spraying on people, those people should not be pardoned.
And so yes, go case-by-case and then maybe some people got caught up and give them a pardon, but a blanket pardon to everybody irrespective, no, I do not agree with that.
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Jim Clyburn on Trump’s plan to pardon J6ers: “If you go a case-by-case basis, you look at all of those people, some people may have gotten caught up in the emotions and maybe a pardon for them would be okay.” @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/W3AwEu2STz
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Clyburn, a power South Carolina Democrat and prominent supporter of Joe Biden, made the comments days after he pardoned his son Hunter on federal tax and gun crimes after repeatedly saying that he would not do so.
Meanwhile, there is growing hope that Trump will pardon some or all of those involved in the protests, which were a reaction to the widespread fraud that tainted the 2020 presidential election.
In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker this weekend, Trump said he will act on “day one” to free those wrongly persecuted by the Biden regime.
“We’re going to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases, yeah. I’m going to be acting very quickly… First day.”
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