The Republican candidate described his jailed supporters as “hostages” and vowed to set them free immediately after taking office.
Former US President Donald Trump has said that freeing the “wrongfully imprisoned” Capitol Hill rioters will be one of his “first acts” if he returns to the White House. Nearly 1,400 Trump supporters have been arrested and charged for taking part in the January 6 protest.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump said: “My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”
A crowd of Trump’s supporters descended on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to prevent lawmakers from certifying what they believed was Joe Biden’s fraudulent victory in the presidential election the previous November. The demonstration quickly degenerated into a riot, although US Capitol Police restored order within hours.
Biden and his Democrat allies labeled the affray an “insurrection,” and the US Justice Department launched an unprecedented manhunt to track down and arrest those who took part. As of last week, 1,358 people have been charged in relation to the riot, most of them for misdemeanor trespassing offenses. However, 127 have been charged with using weapons or injuring police officers, and even those convicted of non-violent crimes have received lengthy prison terms.
Trump is facing federal charges for allegedly instigating the riot. According to government prosecutor Jack Smith, the former president sparked the unrest and committed conspiracy against the United States by telling his supporters to “fight like hell” against Congress’ certification of Biden’s win. According to Trump’s lawyers, the then-president was well within his rights to give such a speech, during which he also encouraged his followers to protest “peacefully and patriotically.”
A Washington DC appeals court has yet to decide whether presidential immunity should shield Trump from being prosecuted over the speech.
Trump has referred to the rioters as “political prisoners,” and suggested that he would pardon some of them if re-elected. “I am inclined to pardon many of them,” he said at a CNN town hall event last year. “I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control,” he added.
With his last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, suspending her presidential campaign last week, Trump is all but certain to be the Republican Party’s nominee to take on Biden in this November’s presidential election. Most recent opinion polls show Trump leading the incumbent Democrat by between two and nine points.
“A crowd of Trump’s supporters descended on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021…”
Small correction: a group of Trump supporters were lured into the capital buildings by police and security personnel through opened gates and electronically unlocked doors. They were then whipped into a frenzy by undercover federal agents, a man named Ray Epps chief among them. Only one person was killed in the incident, a trump supporter named Ashley Babbit, shot in the neck without warning for peering into a window. The Biden administration’s January 6 committee deliberately withheld hundreds of hours of surveillance footage showing these occurrences in order to misrepresent what happened that day (as was the entire point). Four capitol police officers who could corroborate testimony mysteriously committed “suicide” in the weeks after. All of this is public record, no conspiracy theories anywhere.
The so-called “insurrection” didn’t help Trump supporters, it actually completely derailed the very important process that was unfolding in the senate chamber (meeting to certify or reject the objectively stolen 2020 election). After the circus show was through, spineless republicans abandoned Trump because of “optics” and Biden’s fake presidency essentially began. The “insurrection” was 100% to the US deep state government’s advantage, that’s why it’s obvious that they were behind it.
Trump is 100% correct when he refers to these people as political prisoners, it’s exactly what they are. Some, including a 70 year old grandmother literally walked in and out of the building (on the instruction of police) and have been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. One man named Matt Perna opted to kill himself after being relentlessly hounded by Biden’s prosecutors. Ray Epps, who by contrast was repeatedly screaming, “STORM THE CAPITOL” quietly went away and to this day has never set foot in jail.
When Trump Season 2 starts, I would sincerely hope he sees to it that the perpetrators of this pathetic false flag are given the same merciless treatment his supporters have had, ESPECIALLY those at the top who planned it all. Cops, Soldiers, generals, politicians…all of them. Sandpaper dildos in Guantanamo Bay.
President Trump is very wise and had foreknowledge that J6 was a trap: He warned people about going into the capitol on 6 January. 2021.
J6 was not an insurrection. The US has not had one of those in recent history. If the 2024 election is stolen (like 2020 was stolen) then perhaps the US government may find out what an insurrection really is, and it could rapidly develop into a revolution or perhaps civil war. Let’s hope that the “white hats” have already put measures in place to “stop the steal” so that this does not happen.