Lindsey Graham Whines About Jan 6 Pardons

Swamp creature Lindsey Graham is once again complaining about America having its first Republican President since Ronald Reagan, this time whining about the release of the (largely) politically prosecuted January 6 protesters.

To even call the treatment that Jan 6ers received “disproportionate” to the consequences faced by those who burned cities down during the “George Floyd riots” of 2020 would be unfair - because it would be comparing them to people who faced almost zero consequences. 

Nonetheless, Graham, who is shocked by Republicans actually winning for a change, told NBC’s Kristen Welkers that the pro-America Jan 6ers are “no better” than the far-left anti-American BLM rioters who stand against every single value needed for a functioning civilization.  

Welker asked Graham, “Let’s turn now to President Trump’s decision to pardon, to give blanket pardons to, everyone who was convicted of crimes on January 6, including the 172 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers. Even his own Vice President said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Do you believe President Trump was wrong to issue these blanket pardons to the January 6 defendants?”

Graham responded: “Number one, he had the legal authority to do it, but I fear that you will get more violence. Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently, I think, was a mistake because it seems to suggest that’s an okay thing to do.”

“Kamala Harris wanted to raise bail money for people burning down Minneapolis. You know, Biden pardoned half his family going out the door. I think most Americans, if this continues, to see this as an abuse of the pardon power, that we’ll revisit the pardon power of the president if this continues, but as to pardoning violent people who beat up cops, I think that’s a mistake,” he said.

Here Graham is comparing Trump’s actions to when Harris raised bail money for literal murderers - of which, contrary to the media’s reporting, Jan 6ers were responsible for none. 

And of note, those who did assault police on Jan 6 already served four-year sentences by the time they were pardoned. By contrast, during the George Floyd riots, a radical lawyer was sentenced to 15 months jail for firebombing a police vehicle - so by left-wing standards, they already served more than enough time (and remember that the median sentence was zero years for the Floyd-era radicals).