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Trump’s Pardon of the January 6 Rioters
Jan. 23rd, 2025 12:54 amIt seems that the Fraternal Order of Police, which endorsed Trump in the past three presidential elections, is dismayed by his pardon of the Trumpist rioters who assaulted Capitol police officers on January 6, 2020.
In the words of that famous meme: “I never expected that leopards would eat my face,” says woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
Jacob Sullum’s article seems to assume that Leonard Peltier, whom Biden recently pardoned (also to the dismay of the Fraternal Order of Police), was in fact guilty of murdering two FBI agents. I don’t know the truth of the matter, but some people have maintained his innocence. I remember Jack Anderson columns from nearly fifty years ago, alleging official misconduct in the Peltier case; it seems that whether he was involved in the killings or not, some people had it in for him because he was a radical opposing his tribe’s government, and with two FBI agents killed, law enforcement may not have been excessively scrupulous about making sure that they were catching and convicting a murderer, and not just an opponent.
In the words of that famous meme: “I never expected that leopards would eat my face,” says woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
Jacob Sullum’s article seems to assume that Leonard Peltier, whom Biden recently pardoned (also to the dismay of the Fraternal Order of Police), was in fact guilty of murdering two FBI agents. I don’t know the truth of the matter, but some people have maintained his innocence. I remember Jack Anderson columns from nearly fifty years ago, alleging official misconduct in the Peltier case; it seems that whether he was involved in the killings or not, some people had it in for him because he was a radical opposing his tribe’s government, and with two FBI agents killed, law enforcement may not have been excessively scrupulous about making sure that they were catching and convicting a murderer, and not just an opponent.
