JD Vance Tells Fox That Violent Offenders Won't Get a J6 Pardon from Trump

Source: MEDIAite

Jan 12th, 2025, 10:33 am


Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of near-blanket pardons for Jan. 6 offenders, Vice President-elect JD Vance seemed to make clear that some of those banking on a get out of jail free card will be out of luck.

Speaking with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday, Vance said Trump’s incoming administration “obviously” does not believe violent offenders from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot should receive pardons.

“I think it’s very simple,” Vance told Bream. “If you protested peacefully on January the 6th and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

Vance did hedge ever-so-slightly by saying “there’s a little bit of a gray area there.” But the vice-president elect delivered a much more clear position than President-elect Trump has on the subject. As recently as Tuesday — during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago — Trump left the door open on pardoning those who attacked law enforcement officers on Jan. 6.

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