Liz Cheney made it her mission to keep Donald Trump from ever regaining power.
Cheney failed miserably in that endeavor as Donald Trump won a landslide victory over Kamala Harris.
And Donald Trump made this day one promise that left Liz Cheney a nervous wreck.
Trump says he will make good on a key campaign promise
The FBI and Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Department of Justice arrested and charged over 1,500 Trump supporters for the events of January 6.
Biden and Kamala Harris’ prosecutors moved to dismiss federal charges against half the Antifa rioters that laid siege to a federal courthouse in Portland during the summer of 2020.
The Biden and Kamala Harris administration also treated the Black Lives Matter riots with kid gloves.
Democrats weaponizing the government to create a two-tiered system of justice in America became a major campaign issue that worked to Republicans’ benefit.
Every Democrat prosecutor indicted or sued Donald Trump, and Trump’s poll numbers went up.
Trump also promised to end the weaponization of the government by pardoning the January 6 defendants.
“I am inclined to pardon many of them,” Trump said of potential pardons during a 2023 CNN town hall event in New Hampshire.
Trump didn’t promise blanket pardons as he said some were too violent to receive clemency.
“I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, got out of control. I would say it will be a large portion of them and it would be early on,” Trump added.
Trump had his first post-election interview with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker.
Welker asked Trump about his plans to pardon January 6 defendants.
Trump pleasantly surprised his supporters with how quickly he plans to proceed on granting clemency as Trump said it would be a day one priority.
“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump began.
Trump then decried the squalid conditions the Biden-Harris administration held the January 6 defendants in, saying, “they’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”
Trump also said the scope of the pardons could include some who were forced into pleading guilty to more serious crimes by Biden-Harris prosecutors.
“Because they had no choice,” Trump said of those who pled guilty to these crimes and why he was considering pardons.
Trump told Welker he understood better than anyone what it meant to be the victim of a weaponized justice system, which is why he was moving ahead with these pardons.
“I know the system. The system’s a very corrupt system,” Trump concluded. “They say to a guy, ‘You’re going to go to jail for two years or for 30 years.’ And these guys are looking, their whole lives have been destroyed. For two years, they’ve been destroyed. But the system is a very nasty system.”
