Voters Don't Care About Trump's Rioter Pardons

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January 6th, here we are with it. The question is, what impact are we left with in January 6th as we go into it? You've done some wonderful stories on it. I've watched them. They're very well thought out. They're good stories. Give me your thought on what the big picture looks like going into January 6th. What's the American public, what's their reaction to all this? If we believe that there was a coup that was going to take place, how does this affect anything?

It didn't. I mean, really we saw that not only in this year's election, obviously, we saw it in the 2022 midterms when Republicans regained control of the House. The public and at that point was not even two years passed, the public said, we're over it. We're done. We don't care. And it's because like so many other things, the public has the attention span of a fruit fly, basically. They move on, they forget, other things happen. It's the same thing and I always point this out that we saw with the 2004 election with George W. Bush. Just a year before that they're at the UN with their little vials saying, this was from Iraq. Here's pictures of aluminum tubes and everybody knew it was a lie. Everybody knew this was a war based on pure lies. People were dying. He was ignoring the real terrorists out there. And then in 2004, they went and said, no, we're gonna stay with Bush because they forget about these important things that change the course of American history.

Yeah. Just like the first story we did, I think there's an issue that I think of, and that is, it's a high ground issue. Do the Dems really have a high ground on the January 6th? Which they should. They should. But do they have the high ground anymore? And my suggestion is they don't, and it's because of the conduct of this president. First of all, it comes down to, the American public looks at events in fairness and in unfairness. It's a simple gut kind of reaction that they have to certain things. So they say, okay, January 6th, we're still not sure. Most people would say, no, this wasn't a coup. It was just something that went awry. Okay. And he's going to, I promise you, Trump is going to pardon these people. So when he does, what is the American public think about that? And my take on it is, ordinarily they might be outraged, but you have a president who has pardoned, my God, just the other day he pardons, I guess he pardons them, he takes 11 Al-Qaeda terrorists that were arguably tied up to Bin Laden and sends them out.

Yeah.

He forgives the 9/11 terrorists that killed 3000 people. He allows 30 people that he pardoned who were fraudsters. All kinds of scams that they ran. They committed fraud. They were con men. They committed the most horrendous types of acts.

The kids for cash judge, that SOB.

Kids for cash. That we've done a couple of times where a judge is making a decision to put money in his pocket by sending kids to prison. Now, he forgave those two judges. Okay. There was 30 of them just as bad. And then add to that, that he commutes the sentence of child rapists, murders, mass murders and he makes the argument that, I did that because I don't believe in the death penalty. That was basically, but he still, if you either believe in the death penalty or you don't, but here, he says, well, these people, I'm going to commute their sentence. But if you believe that the death penalty's improper, why did you allow three cases to stand? You see what I'm saying? The whole argument was poorly thought out.

And, by the way, two of the people that were on death row that he commuted, they actually came out today and said, no, I want to die.

I saw that. But getting back to the point, I just wonder, does it make any difference if he pardons these people? Because he's going to, he's going to.

Well, here's the thing, and this kind of ties back to my previous point, regardless of what Biden did and the outrage from that, if there is outrage, and I've seen it in the media, there is outrage. That outrage is already gone. So it'll be the same with January 6th.