Why Trump’s new commitment to pardons for Jan. 6 rioters matters

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Why Trump’s new commitment to pardons for Jan. 6 rioters matters
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Senator Cory Booker says Donald Trump's comments about VP Harris's race at an NABJ event are an attempt to divide Americans and distract from his own policies.

Donald Trump has spent much of the campaign season lying uncontrollably about the Jan. 6 attack he instigated, and at the former president’s latest rally in Pennsylvania, the Republican kept the assault on reality going. Trump repeated a familiar lie about Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi; he lied again about his Jan. 6 crowd size; and he rewrote history by claiming that some of followers “walked peacefully and patriotically down to the Capitol.

6 pardons would be considered on a case-by-case basis — the idea being that Trump would exercise at least some caution and wouldn’t simply pardon everyone convicted of crimes related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But the presumptive GOP nominee himself apparently has a different perspective on this. When Trump sat down with Time magazine’s Eric Cortellessa in the spring, the reporter reminded him that more than 800 Jan.

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