Rules for thee, but not for me
In the wake of “thoughts and prayers” reactions to the recent assassination, with complete silence and disregard when Melissa and Mark Hortman were gunned down, I asked Claude for some numbers. You cannot be “law and order” when it only serves your ideology.
Violent Crime Statistics for January 6th Pardons
Total Numbers:
- Trump pardoned approximately 1,500-1,600 January 6th defendants
- All but 14 of these defendants received full pardons (the remaining 14 received sentence commutations)
Assault on Law Enforcement Officers:
- Approximately 608 Jan. 6 defendants had been “charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement agents or officers or obstructing those officers during a civil disorder”
- Of these, approximately 174 defendants were “charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer”
- 172 defendants “pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement”
- 69 defendants “pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous or deadly weapon”
- An additional 130 defendants “pleaded guilty to obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder (riot)”
Key Finding:
The number of pardoned defendants who attacked law enforcement officers on Jan. 6 is “easily north of 241” according to the analysis, though the exact total is difficult to determine due to how statistics were compiled.
Prior Criminal Records:
- Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking
- NPR identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter
Most Serious Cases:
- 10 of the 14 defendants who received commutations (rather than full pardons) were convicted of seditious conspiracy
- These included leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who “conspired to prevent, hinder and delay the certification of the Electoral College vote and to oppose by force the authority of the government”
Summary: Of the approximately 1,500 January 6th defendants pardoned, at least 600+ were charged with violent crimes against law enforcement officers, with several hundred having pleaded guilty or been convicted of these assault charges. This represents roughly 40% of all pardoned January 6th defendants being involved in violent crimes, primarily assaults on police officers.
I’m going to call bullshit on anyone that values the life of one human over another.
