President Donald Trump had a bizarre four-word reply to a journalist who asked him why he pardoned someone for assaulting a police officer.PauseMute
Within around 24 hours of his time on the job as the new president, Trump has pardoned around 1,500 criminals who were convicted of crimes in the Capitol Riots. More than 140 police officers were injured during the riots and at least 7 people were killed.
As reported by NBC News, Daniel Joseph ‘DJ’ Rodriguez was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he attacked officer Michael Fanone with a stun gun.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, tampering with documents or proceedings and inflicting bodily injury on officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
While in a press briefing at his new residence, a reporter asked Trump “You would agree it’s never acceptable to assault a police officer?” to which the 78-year-old said “Sure”.
The journalist then asked: “So then if I can, among those you pardon, DJ Rodriguez he drove a stun gun into the neck of a DC police officer who was abducted by the mob that day.
“He later confessed on video to the FBI and pleaded guilty for his crimes – why does he deserve a pardon?”
Trump’s response? “Well, I don’t know.”
He then added: “Is it a pardon? Because we’re looking at commutes and we’re looking at pardons. Okay well, we’ll take a look at everything but I can say this, murderers today are not even charged, you have murderers that aren’t charged all over.”
Adding that the people he was pardoning ‘have already served years in prison and uh, they’ve served them viciously, it’s a disgusting prison, it’s been horrible, it’s inhumane, it’s been a terrible thing’.
“I also say this, you go to Portland where they wrapped police officers, shot police officers, nothing happened to anybody. You go to Seattle where they took over a big chunk of the city and people died, Portland a lot of people died […] and you also go take a look at Minneapolis because I was there and I watched it and if I didn’t bring in the National Guard that city wouldn’t even exist today, people were killed and nobody went to jail.”
“Joe Biden gave a pardon yesterday to a lot of criminals – these are criminals he gave a pardon to and you should be asking that question: Why did he give a pardon to all of these people that committed crimes? Why did he give a pardon to the J6 unselect committee when they burned and destroyed all documents that showed that they did what was wrong, not me? Why did they give a pardon to all of his relatives – his brother who made millions of dollars.
“To all these different people he gave pardons that’s the question you should be answering.”
