US president claimed rioters suffered unduly harsh prison conditions and repeated false allegation that 2020 election was rigged
US president Donald Trump hinted that those who put him through 'four years of hell' via criminal prosecutions should themselves be investigated. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York TimesDonald Trump described attacks on police officers at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 as “very minor incidents” as he sought to defend his decision to pardon the insurrectionists.
Among the topics was Mr Trump’s move on Monday to pardon, commute the prison sentences or dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Hannity asked why people who were violent towards police were included.Mr Trump claimed that they had suffered unduly harsh prison conditions then falsely claimed that the 2020 election was stolen despite courts, officials and his own attorney general finding otherwise.
Vice-president JD Vance has previously stated that those who committed violence on January 6th “obviously” should not receive pardons. But media accounts suggest that Mr Trump lost patience with the idea of going through the cases individually and wanted maximum impact on his first day in office. The Axios website reported that an adviser familiar with the discussions said: “Trump just said: ‘F**k it: Release ’em all’.
He then pivoted without providing context to assert: “You have murderers in Philadelphia. You have murderers in Los Angeles that don’t even get any time. They don’t even collect them and they know they’re there to be collected. And then they go on television and act holier than thou about this one or that one. You had 1,500 people that suffered. That’s a lot of people.”
Hannity tried to move on to questions about the economy but Mr Trump was not done. He criticised Mr Biden for issuing, in his final hours as president, a flurry of pre-emptive pardons to Gen Mark Milley, Dr Anthony Fauci and members of Congress who served on the committee investigating the January 6th attack.
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