MSNBC Guest Goes Off On Republicans Supporting Trump’s Jan 6 Pardons: ‘How Do They Explain To Their Kids?!’
Activist Tara Setmayer went off on Republicans supporting President Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters, asking how they will explain their silence to “their kids.”
Setmayer, the CEO and co-founder of The Seneca Project, joined MSNBC’s Katie Phang on Saturday and called Trump pardoning about 1,500 Capitol rioters “despicable.”
“This is one of the most egregious, despicable acts in American history as far as I’m concerned. This goes back to the Civil War. I almost think it’s worse than the Civil War folks who were pardoned back then to try to unite the country,” she said.
Setmayer argued Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other Republican leaders can no longer say they are on the side of law enforcement if they are okay with Trump’s pardons, including of those rioters who were violent with police.
She said:
I’ve become friends with some of the officers who spoke out about what happened to them on January 6th. And every American who sits there and tries to make the excuse that this election was about the price of eggs for them, and they try to completely ignore what Donald Trump promised he would do, and the fact that he called those traitors, sobs, hostages and patriots, how dare he? It spits on the honorable service of every person who wears uniform and swears an oath to protect this country. As a law enforcement officer, particularly the ones who literally put their bodies in harm’s way to protect those people, despite the fact that they would betray everything that they claim to stand for — it is despicable. And everyone who voted for Donald Trump owns this. Every Republican who let Donald Trump get away with what happened on January 6th so that he could come back to power, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, all of those leaders who knew better, I’m talking to you guys. You did this! I don’t want to hear any feigned outrage about, well, you know, that the violent ones, that’s not okay. No. Enough of that. You guys knew exactly what you were doing when you enabled Donald Trump. And now you own. Now you own this. And I don’t know how they explain to their children, to their sons and daughters who put on that badge or to wear the uniform after they just confirmed Pete Hegseth, who is another disgrace to the office. How do they explain to their kids what they stand for? Because it sure as hell isn’t law and order. And it sure sure as hell isn’t patriotism because there’s nothing patriotic about pardoning people who tried to violently overthrow our government and beat the hell out of cops and almost kill them. And some did lose their lives as a result. It’s despicable.
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