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Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) claimed Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s pardons have excused political violence, and that has created a “really dangerous precedent.”

Senate Democrats on Monday will attempt to pass a resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s pardon of January 6 protesters.

Former Department of Defense Inspector General Robert Storch, whose office was behind the report on the department’s response to assistance requests before and on January 6, 2021, was one of the 17 inspectors general Trump fired on Friday.

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) said that Chicago won’t let ICE into jails because “there’s a level of fear and trepidation that people should have in regards to the new administration.” And “the president has

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that President Donald Trump had “legitimized” political violence against Democrats.

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that President Donald Trump didn’t “give a rat’s ass about law enforcement.”

Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” network contributor Adam Kinzinger lamented House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) citation of the Bible, saying he believed in repentance when discussing President Donald Trump’s pardons of 1,500 people involved in the January 6 protest.

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump’s pardoning the January 6 protesters created “a pretext for more political violence in our country.”

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that President Donald Trump’s pardoning the January 6 protesters was to create a “reserve army of political foot soldiers.”

Establishment media forces and establishment Republicans like Sen. Mitch McConnell are attacking Vice President JD Vance after President Donald Trump pardoned a broad swath of January 6 political prisoners, arguing what Trump did went against what Vance said he supported during a recent interview some time before the inauguration.

Demonstrators rally outside the Central Detention Facility, also known as the D.C. Jail, after President Donald Trump pardoned and commuted thousands of participants in the January 6 Capitol riot.

One of President Donald Trump’s first actions Monday after taking office was to sign “a lot” of January 6 pardons in the Oval Office.

Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that President Donald Trump’s pardon of approximately 1,500 January 6 defendants and prisoners and commuted the sentences of 8 more was a “grotesque display of his new power as president.”

Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) slammed freshly sworn-in President Donald Trump’s remarks from his inauguration ceremony, calling him a “liar” for calling out the House Select Committee on January 6 and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D), right after she received a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden.

President-elect Donald Trump suggested that he would be issuing pardons for people who had been involved in the riot at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) suggested Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that violent January 6 defendants should not be pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Partisan January 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) spoke with White House counsel and “would accept” a preemptive pardon from President Joe Biden, he told Punchbowl News in a Monday interview. 

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that people take for granted that they were “allowed” “to move on to concerns about the economy, to concerns about border security” due to the 2020 election being

On Monday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) stated that “We have prices that are too high for people” and the large spike in prices “has really been very troubling and difficult for a lot of American

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) stated that there’s strong distrust between Democrats and Republicans due to January 6. Balint said [relevant remarks begin around 33:55] that “it’s going to be very difficult for us

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill, also a former Democratic U.S. Senator, said on Monday’s “Deadline” that she felt “bitter” President-elect Donald Trump did not pay a “higher political price” for what he did on January 6.

CNN anchor Abby Phillip said on her network’s special coverage of the election certification that it was a big problem that millions of people in this country are willing to believe anything President-elect Donald Trump says, “even if it’s a blatant provable lie.”

CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger said Monday on his network’s special coverage of the election certification that history will remember January 6, 2021 as a “coup attempt.” Host Anderson Cooper said, “That’s how we remember the day now. The question is

ABC News legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that the United States should not “move on” from the events of January 6, 2021, because it “was one of the worst moments in American history” like World War II, the Holocaust and slavery.

CNN anchor Jim Acosta said Monday on “Newsroom” that the Republican Party should have “flat out rejected” President-elect Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden used an op-ed on Sunday about January 6, 2021, to lob political attacks against President-elect Donald Trump.

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that President-elect Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric had not stopped and caused the hammer attack on her husband Paul.

Craig Sicknick, the brother of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, told a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday that Congress should block President-elect Donald Trump from being certified when it convenes January 6.

Oh, the irony. Had Harris won the election, January 6 would have been observed as a solemn anniversary of the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”

Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President-elect Donald Trump’s leadership was causing the United States to lose the idea that “we’re part of something bigger.”

Jacob Chansley, the “J6 Shaman,” said, “God loves poetic justice” when asked about V.P. Kamala Harris needing to certify the election results on January 6.