Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
At a campaign event in New Hampshire, shortly before the state’s Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump heard from a supporter who urged him to “free” Jan. 6 criminals. “We will,” the former president replied. As for when, exactly, the presumptive GOP nominee intends to take such a step, the answer is coming into sharper focus. NBC News reported overnight: So, a few things. First, while it’s true that Trump has been talking about pardoning suspected and convicted Jan.
Third, it continues to be deeply weird to see Trump push the “drill, baby, drill” nonsense given that under the Biden administration, domestic energy production is at an all-time high. Fourth, Trump might very well be the first presidential candidate in the history of American politics to be running on a platform that effectively says, “Vote for me and I’ll deliberately release violent criminals back onto the streets.
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