Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Insanity Of Trump Handing Out Pardons & Cash Rewards To January 6th Insurrectionists
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor demanding legal guardrails to prevent Donald Trump from handing out pardons and payouts to January 6th insurrectionists. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:
Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice continues to let criminals off the hook so long as they’re loyal to Donald Trump.
Yesterday, Trump’s DOJ forced a judge to throw out the charges against eight members of the radical extremist Oath Keepers who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting the January 6th insurrection.
Horrendous. Doesn’t get any more un-American than this, doesn’t twist America’s values into a tortured knot.
Trump already gave the insurrectionists clemency. Now he’s wiping their records clean.
But there’s no erasing what the Oath Keepers and the rest of the mob did at Trump’s command on January [6]th. I saw them in this building. They were not on a tour. They were aimed at destruction, to maim, and even in a few cases, murder. We can’t afford to forget what happened that day.
Now, Trump has sent the country a clear message: there’s no consequences for sedition, no punishment for attacking police, no repercussions for ransacking the Capitol to steal an election – so long as you do it in Trump’s name. No wonder his numbers are so terrible. No wonder the American people are turning against him. No one in our history has done things as bad as this.
Trump won’t just give you clemency for committing a crime on his behalf – he’ll give you a reward.
The whole purpose of Trump’s two-billion-dollar MAGA slush fund is to funnel taxpayer dollars to the Oath Keepers and other Trump cronies.
Just the other day, Trump himself defended his slush fund, describing it “a reimbursement for the pain that [January 6th insurrectionists] suffered.”
Donald – what “pain” have these insurrectionists suffered? You let them off scot-free!
Republicans don’t get to yap about being the party of law and order when they’re handing out pardons and cash rewards like candy to convicted cop-beaters.
Do Senate Republicans want to give a promotion to Blanche – the same guy who came up with the idea of these reparations for rioters?
There’s still no legal guardrail stopping Trump and Blanche from giving payouts to January 6th insurrectionists at the taxpayer’s expense. That’s unacceptable.
The only thing these criminals deserve is a cold cell – not Americans’ hard-earned taxpayer dollars.
###