Do you think he’s not demented? Ask yourself how any sane person could say this in light of that behavior:
In an interview with Newsmax Tuesday, host Greg Kelly asked Trump if there’s any talk of a “compensation fund” for prosecuted January 6 rioters, because they lost “opportunity” and “income.”
“Well there’s talk about that, we have a lot of people talking about it, a lot of the people that are in government now talk about it, because a lot of people in government really like that group of people,” Trump responded, referring to the rioters as “patriots” who went to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically.”
Upon taking office, Trump issued a sweeping pardon for some 1,500 people who tried to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
“These people are incredible people; they were treated so unfairly, so horribly,” Trump said of the insurrectionists. […]
The president claimed that no other group in history has been treated as badly as January 6 rioters. “The judges, the system, the hatred, the vitriol, the prosecutors, the way they wanted to destroy these people,” Trump said.
Nothing shows how far down the rabbit hole he and his cult have fallen than this. And when I say his “cult” I mean the entire Republican Party. Anyone who can claim that this was perfectly fine and that these rioters were victimized by the justice system is living in an alternate universe. That it’s a bunch of flag-waving authoritarians who constantly scream about “law and order” and allegedly love the police is simply mind-boggling.
Whenever I see any of the savvy cynical pundits shrug their shoulders and say we’re being hysterical about what’s happening, even with all the current atrocities (and they are legion) this is what immediately comes to mind. How can we survive with so many people having such a total break with reality, much less common decency and morality?