Trump ‘Doesn’t Give a Rat’s Ass’: Senator Flames President Over Pardons

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) put President Donald Trump on blast Wednesday night, two days after Trump pardoned about 1,500 people connected to the Capitol riot. Some of them were individuals who assaulted police officers during the deadly insurrection.

“So this is January 6th. These are the hostages,” Trump said while signing the pardons shortly after being inaugurated. “Approximately 1,500 for a pardon. Full pardon.”

Schiff appeared on Wednesday’s installment of The Last Word on MSNBC, where offered his reaction.

“These people he just pardoned were beating police officers within an inch of their life,” the senator said. “They were bear-spraying them. They were gouging them. They were hitting them with baseball bats and hockey sticks. These are the people Donald Trump just pardoned. So, one thing is abundantly clear. He doesn’t give a rat’s about law enforcement. That much is clear.”

Schiff called the storming of the Capitol “a major crime against our democracy” and said the pardons are the sort of thing that happens in nascent dictatorships.

“But then finally, in giving these violent offenders these pardons, he is essentially telling people who would commit violence on his behalf that he has their back, that he will pardon them if they commit violence in the service of Donald Trump. And you would be hard-pressed to find a country that has gone from a democracy to a dictatorship without finding this step of essentially pardoning people who commit violence on behalf of the would-be dictator. It doesn’t mean that we’re gonna become a dictatorship. But it does mean that we have taken one tragic step in that direction.”

Watch above via MSNBC.