Since Donald Trump’s decisive victory in last month’s presidential elections, the Democrats and their corporate media partners have insisted that it would be a grave mistake for him to pardon the J6 “insurrectionists.” To do so, they tell us, would be an unprecedented abuse of the clemency powers granted to presidents under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.

Trump has long made it clear that he intended to pardon many if not all of the J6 prisoners, and 77.3 million voters cast ballots for him last month.
Inevitably, various “news” outlets have commissioned polls purporting to show how unpopular these pardons would be with the public. Recently, for example, Newsweek reported on a Monmouth poll allegedly confirming the proposition that a majority of Americans do not support pardons for the J6 prisoners.
Even if one accepts such polls at face value — not a wise policy — popularity and justice aren’t synonyms. And no one in possession of the facts surrounding the J6 riot can credibly claim that its participants have received justice or even due process under the law.
No one condones the mayhem at the Capitol building, of course. But it’s impossible to justify the four-year jihad Merrick Garland’s DOJ pursued against nearly 1,600 Americans, many of whom never set foot inside the building. Moreover, the DOJ’s persecution of the protestors has continued apace after the election, despite President-elect Trump’s widely publicized pledge to pardon most if not all of them. Julie Kelly provides an example at RealClear Investigations:
The day after the election, an attorney representing Christopher Carnell, who was convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors following a bench trial in February 2024, asked the judge in his case to delay a scheduled hearing based on the possibility of a pardon.
“Throughout his campaign, President-elect Trump made multiple clemency promises to the January 6 defendants, particularly to those who were nonviolent participants,” attorney Marina ...