We used to honor our heroic defenders — #TrumpPardons-- #Jan6th pardons ended that. The evidence of the battle that raged on one of the darkest days in American history — Jan. 6, 2021 #insurrection  is gone. The bloodstains have been scrubbed off. The smashed windows, broken doors and damaged historical murals and statues have been repaired. Ordinarily, tour guides would describe what had happened there, but they have been TOLD not even to mention it.
Trump’s grant of #clemency to the #J6ers convicted #criminals — more than 1,500 pardons and 14 commutations — was only part of an official memory erasure of the gallant defense by the Capitol and D.C. police of #American #democracy, the Capitol building, the vice president and his wife, and hundreds of senators, congressmen, staffers and others.
Among the recipients of clemency were **169 people who pleaded guilty to **assaulting police officers (#LEO's) defending the #Capitol. According to Trump’s proclamation, however, his clemency corrected a “grave national "injustice".” Wtf. The rioters, in other words, "were" the victims that day, which makes the police officers the villains (insanity).
Trump’s proclamation was issued in the face of graphic, horrifying footage showing rioters breaking into the Capitol and assaulting 140 police officers with, among other weapons, pitchforks, a metal whip, a tomahawk ax, bear spray and stun guns, severely injuring many. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. #Sicknick died the next day from his injuries.
#NeverForget
#TrumpPardons #Jan6th #insurrection