Pence Says He Will Not Pardon Jan 6th Defendants
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Mike Pence said he will not be using the pardon power on any Jan 6th defendants.
Pence said, “I’ll stand by the decisions and the due process of court in our laws. I have no interest or no intention of pardoning those that assaulted police officers or vandalized our Capitol. They need to be answerable to the law.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that he has “no interest” in pardoning those who have been convicted for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
“On the day of Jan. 6, I issued a tweet demanding that people leave the Capitol and end the violence,” Pence said at a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa. “I said that those that failed to do that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and I continue to believe that today.”
“We cannot ever allow what happened on Jan. 6 to happen again in the heart of our democracy,” he continued. “I’ll stand by the decisions and the due process of court in our laws. I have no interest or no intention of pardoning those that assaulted police officers or vandalized our Capitol. They need to be answerable to the law.”
Both Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump have said they would use pardon power where they feel it is right.
Trump said he was inclined to pardon “many of them” but that “I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who officially stepped into the presidential race this week, said Thursday that, if elected, he would consider pardoning people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — possibly including his rival for the GOP nomination, former President Donald Trump.
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“We will use the pardon power — and I will do that at the front end,” DeSantis said, claiming that the Justice Department and the FBI had been “weaponized” to unevenly punish people from “disfavored groups.”
When asked whether he would consider pardoning Trump if he were charged with federal offenses, DeSantis responded that “any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no matter how small or how big.”
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“I am inclined to pardon many of them,” Trump said at a town hall hosted by CNN at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. “I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”
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