Jackie Calmes: Trump promises to subvert the law — first by freeing the Jan. 6 criminals
Trump, reelected, will subvert the law — first by freeing the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Of all the promises that Donald Trump has made for a second term as president, he's all but certain to fulfill one if he's reelected: pardoning most, if not all, of the rioters who've been arrested, pleaded guilty or been convicted by judges or juries for their roles in besieging the nation's Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and injuring roughly 140 police defenders.
That's nearly 1,400 people — "unbelievable patriots" all, in Trump's noxious telling — who tried to overturn a free and fair election.
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