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You have to wonder if Trump’s latest promises of pardons was meant for his coup planning committee, more so than “the January 6 defendants are being treated unfairly,” who he called out as a key constituency, at his pity-me rally.
Those J6 defendants actually awaiting the legal consequences, for carrying out the constitutional disruption — that Team Trump incited — have been less than impressed with the “latest promises” from the gutless wonder ...
by Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN — Feb 5, 2022
"The comments by Trump are, for J6 Defendants, more than a day late and a dollar short," Al Watkins, the attorney who represented Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," said this week in an email. Chansley had made a public plea for a pardon while Trump was in office,
then pleaded guilty this fall, telling a judge he was wrong to have broken the law by taking part in the insurrection.
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One of the rioters,
Edward Jacob Lang, in jail now awaiting trial, said recently he felt "completely abandoned by the political hierarchy."
Speaking to right-wing personality Stew Peters in a jailhouse interview last month, Lang said, "Where are our leaders standing up? Our congressmen, our senators, our president? Trump, where are you?"
"We're rotting in jail because we stood up for what you told us to stand up for," he added.
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Richard "Bigo" Barnett, who was photographed with his feet up on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, said in court this week he is growing his goatee out until "all the J6ers are free."
Most of the J6 defendants have little hope for stringing out their trials for 3+ years, on the shill’s latest promises of pardons — at some undisclosed future date. Most of them are pleading guilty now, in hopes of some sort of leniency, in the present tense. Afterall, they’ve seen this movie before, and the ending has turned out to be a major kick in the pants, for those who went all in ...
Trump had made similar promises back when he was still serving as President -- with some January 6 rioters jailed for the 14 days at the end of the presidency. Then too, Trump didn't come through, nor has he helped January 6 criminal defendants with their legal bills.
"He could have pardoned some or all of them before he left office between January 6 and January 20 last year," defense lawyer Jonathon Moseley, who represents accused Oath Keepers, said on CNN's "New Day" this week. He pointed to earlier commitments from the former President including that he would help defendants with legal bills.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda — “a day late and a dollar short”, for those caught up in the first round of the DOJ dragnet — the one targeting those who would “physically” overturn our democracy.
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Now those with the potential of being caught up in round two of the DOJ dragnet — for actually planning and coordinating the coup attempt — they are another matter entirely. They might be able to stretch out their crimes against the country, for several more years — if they tap into that Trump Legal Defense fund. [… spelled RNC.]
Afterall, nuisance lawsuits are trump’s tools of the trade. It’s his “super power” — and so far at least, the DOJ has been apparently powerless to stop it.
If only he can get his key insiders to follow suit (Meadows, Bannon, Clark, Barr, Giuliani, Eastman, Pence) — and stall, stall, stall — then his fabled promises of some future pardons, might hold some sway. (As much as any Trump IOU does — paging insider Micheal Cohen.)
But more likely however, these outrageous promises of future corruption are due to something else entirely. It is the 5-alarm fire bell, that the Crooked One is feeling the heat of the legal cases, closing in on him — without the White House walls to shield him anymore. And all these vague future promises are not a sign of his “magnanimous generosity” — more so than the desperate shilling of the snake-oil has-been. A desperate attempt at summoning one last riotous mob.
A mob that will rise up and break yet more laws, in the insane self-destructive effort to protect — the last guy in the world, worthy of such insane loyalty.
Just look to the last sorry bunch to heed his call. The guy promised pardons then too. And all the loyalists got was the long arm of the Law. Actions have consequence. Choose them wisely.
Traitor Don can not be trusted. History has shown us that, in spades.
No matter which side of the political fence you sit.
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Word to the wise:
Loyalty with Trump has always been a one-way street. Always.
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