Vance defends Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, including those who attacked police
Vice President JD Vance defended President Trump’s decision to issue sweeping pardons to roughly 1,500 individuals charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including to those accused of assaulting police officers.
In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked Vance about remarks he made two weeks ago, when he said that peaceful Jan. 6 protesters should be pardoned, but that “if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
Brennan asked: “Did you counsel the president against these blanket pardons for 1,500 people, including those who committed violence?”
Vance did not address the question directly, instead insisting that Brennan cut off the rest of the quote, which Vance said noted that the Jan.........
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