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President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his Jan. 6 pardon promises Sunday, saying on “Meet the Press” in his first TV interview since the election that he’ll be “acting very quickly” to issue get-out-of-jail-free cards to Capitol rioters — and that it’s Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo) and House Select Committee members who should actually be behind bars — among other jabs and threats.
“They had no choice,” Trump said when asked about rioters who were caught assaulting police officers. “I know the system. The system’s a very corrupt system,” he told NBC’s Kristen Welker. “They say to a guy, ‘You’re going to go to jail for two years or for 30 years.’ And these guys are looking, their whole lives have been destroyed. For two years, they’ve been destroyed.”
Asked when the public could start seeing pardons from him, Trump said: “I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day. I’m looking first day.” He vowed to probe each Jan. 6 criminal case individually in an effort to separate defendants who are “radical” and “crazy” from the ones who “had no choice.”
“These people have been there, how long has it been? Three or four years?” Trump said of rioters who’ve been sent away to federal prison. “They’ve been in there for years and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”
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