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Karl Rove blasts Trump for pledging to pardon Jan. 6 ‘sons of b**ches’: ‘This is beyond me’

April 4, 2024 | | Print Article

Fox News analyst and former George W. Bush chief strategist Karl Rove ranted recently about former President Donald Trump’s pledge to pardon the January 6 political prisoners if reelected in November.

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s host of “The Beat,” Ari Melber, aired a portion of an interview he conducted with Rove at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival last month.

The remarks followed a post from Trump on Truth Social in which he stated, “My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”

If President Joe Biden and the Democrats want to beat the GOP, Trump included, in November, Rove said, they need to “go hard” on their January 6, 2021, narrative.

“If they were smart, they’d take the January 6th and go hard at it,” Rove told Melber. “And they would say, ‘He wants to pardon these people who attacked our Capitol.””

“I worked in that building as a young man,” he continued. “To me, the Congress of the United States is one of the great examples of the strength of our democracy and a jewel of the Constitution.”

“And what those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol, in order to stop a constitutionally-mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College, is a stain on our history,” Rove stated. “And every one of those sons a bitches who did that, we oughta find them, try them, and send them to jail.”

As BizPac Review has repeatedly reported in recent months, the official narrative surrounding the events at the Capitol on January 6 have been falling apart under the scrutiny of a GOP-led House.

On the third anniversary of the so-called “insurrection,” Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.)  sat down with Tucker Carlson and detailed the involvement of federal agents in the chaos.

“I’d seen evidence, even at that time that the FBI had embedded themselves into various groups online across the country of Americans who were essentially voicing their their concerns and airing their grievances with each other about Covid oppression,” Higgins said. “And those Americans were targeted by the FBI – almost universally Republicans and largely Trump supporters. But the FBI worked undercover to infiltrate those conversations and become a significant part of those individual Americans’ communications.”

Video evidence has emerged suggesting the infamous Jan. 6th pipe bomb outside the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C. was never meant to detonate and may have been a hoax cooked up by the feds themselves.

And, last year, the “QAnon Shaman,” Jacob Chansley, was released from prison after a video showed Capitol police escorting him through the building.

But, according to Rove, the men and women, grandmas and tourists, are all “thugs” and Democrats should hammer on Trump for even thinking about freeing them.

“[O]ne of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said, ‘I’m going to pardon those people because they’re hostages,'” Rove said. “No, they’re not. They’re thugs. There were people– some of them had automatic weapons at a hotel in Virginia hoping to be able to be called up. We had people saying, ‘Where’s Nancy Pelosi?’ We had people who were, you know, taking desks and sitting at the desk of the speaker of the House and attempting to find people in order to bring them to justice, and yelling at the police, ‘Kill them, Kill them all.'”

“And so, why Trump has done this is beyond me,” he continued. “If he had said, ‘You know what? I trust our jury system, I trust law enforcement, anybody who assaulted the Capitol oughta be–’ I mean, he said it once or twice, but now he’s appearing in a video with people who assaulted police officers with an intent to take the Capitol by force.”

As hours and hours of GOP-released video from the Capitol has clearly shown, while there were indeed some instances of what appeared to be jail-worthy behavior, the majority of unarmed people who entered the Capitol did so in an orderly fashion, right in front of the guards.

But, according to Rove, “it’s a mistake on the part of the Trump campaign to allow the president’s impulses to identify himself with the people who assaulted the Capitol rather than people who stand for law and order.”

One must assume that Rove has seen the same videos the rest of us have seen, so the real question Americans probably should be asking is, “Why is a former campaign strategist for a member of the swampiest families in the Deep State Swamp ignoring them and acting like this is a new Trump view?”

As early as June 2022, Trump had indicated that he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants.

If one didn’t know any better, one might think Rove is urging the Uniparty to avoid talking about the dismal current state of American affairs and deflect by drumming up an already de-bunked, fear-mongering narrative.

If one didn’t know better, that is…

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