defendants. and we all know what happened on january 6th, right? we specifically know what police officers. 140 police officers were injured by the trump mob attack on january 6th. police officers were tased, beaten, stopped, speared, dragged down flights of stairs, punched, and broken bones and chemical burns. and here s the moment in the rally, here s these folks standing behind trump saying cops for trump t-shirts while trump is saying he is going to pardon all of the january 6th defendants because they had been treated so unfairly, so unfairly. yes, cops for trump. wait, cops for what now? you re going to pardon who, for what? cops for trump. the importance of him promising those pardons is hard to miss, right? i mean for one thing, it will have a current effect on the hundreds of ongoing prosecutions
this is amazing to me, this is the moment at his rally this weekend. he said he would pardon the january six defenders. we all don t happen on january six, right? literally 140 police officers were injured by the trump mob attack on january six. police officers were tased, beaten, stopped, speared, dragged, pinged and broken bones, chemical bones. here s the moment, where these folks standing behind trump. trump was saying that he they d been treated so unfairly, so unfairly. yeah, cops for what? you re gonna pardon who for what? cops for trump. the importance of him promising this is hard to miss.
would do it. this is amazing to me, this is the moment at his rally this weekend. he said he would pardon the january six defenders. we all don t happen on january six, right? literally 140 police officers were injured by the trump mob attack on january six. police officers were tased, beaten, stopped, speared, dragged, pinged and broken bones, chemical bones. here s the moment, where these folks standing behind trump. trump was saying that he they d been treated so unfairly, so unfairly. yeah, cops for what? you re gonna pardon who for what? cops for trump. the importance of him promising this is hard to miss.
why the police unit hasn t said squat. frank, can you respond to that? why haven t police unions come out and defended law enforcement against republican smears and lies? well, if we think that law enforcement is some monolith separate and apart from the rest of society, we are wrong. they reflect what is going on in the larger society, and don t forget, cops for trump rallies, well attended throughout the united states,. so we see that kind of delusion even falling on the shoulders of police officers mindsets not being changed yet. there s got to be a wholesale change of how law enforcement views their jobs here. john heilemannheilemann, thi
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