The Promise Trump Did Keep: Pardons for His Most Violent Followers
Mike Nellis
Today is January 6th—the anniversary of one of the most horrifying and destabilizing attacks on our democracy. And while a lot of people are going to spend today replaying the horrific images and reliving the trauma of that insurrection Donald Trump incited, I want to focus on something that still doesn’t get enough attention: the pardons Trump handed out at the beginning of his second term to the very people who attacked the Capitol.
I believe those pardons were the original sin of his second term. They represent everything that’s broken and insidious about Donald Trump’s presidency.
They revealed the governing philosophy of this administration: loyalty and profit above all, no accountability for Trump and his allies, and the American people pay the price.
Here’s a man who promised he was going to fix grocery prices, housing prices, and promised no new wars—a golden age of America. He told women struggling with infertility that IVF would be free. He told American farmers and ranchers that he was going to fight for them—only to sell them out to Big Ag and foreign governments. He pledged to release the Epstein files! He made a million promises, and he’s broken almost all of them.
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