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Is pardoning insurrectionists the way to win an election so it sets a bar to throw a fit if something doesn't go your way that this is acceptable?

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DeSantis Spots Room For 'Pardons And Commutations' Among Sentenced Proud Boys

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested the use of pardons and commutations in the cases of Proud Boys members and others sentenced for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.


The GOP candidate, in an interview with Newsmax’s Eric Bolling on Wednesday, weighed in on how he’d approach their sentences if he were elected president.

“We will look at all those cases. I mean, so there’s some examples of people that should not have been prosecuted. They just walked into the Capitol. If they were BLM, they would not have been prosecuted,” DeSantis said.


“Then there’s other examples of people that probably did commit misconduct, they may have been violent, but to say it’s an act of terrorism when it was basically a protest that devolved into a riot, to do excessive sentences — you can look at – okay, maybe they were guilty but 22 years if other people that did other things got six months?”

He continued: “I think we need a single standard of justice and so we’ll use pardons and commutations as appropriate to ensure that everyone’s treated equally. And as we know, a lot of people with the BLM riots, they didn’t get prosecuted at all.”


The comments arrive one day after Enrique Tarrio, the ex-chairman of the far-right street gang the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the riot.

Is pardoning insurrectionists the way to win an election so it sets a bar to throw a fit if something doesn't go your way that this is acceptable?
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