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Trump Confronted On Air Force One For ‘Pardoning People Who Assaulted First Responders’: ‘Why Did You Do That?’
[In New Orleans for the Superbowl, Trump] spent a few minutes meeting with first responders and families involved in the New Year’s Day attack
During his Air Force One gaggle, a reporter confronted Trump for pardoning January 6 rioters who committed violent offenders who “assaulted first responders” and connected it to his planned visit with the New Orleans responders.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves! They were assaulted by our government! I pardoned J6 people who were assaulted by our government. That’s who were assaulted and they were treated unfairly.
There’s never been a group of people in this country outside of maybe one instance I can think of, but I won’t get into it, that were treated more horribly than the people of J6.
So no, I didn’t assault. They didn’t assault– they were assaulted, and what I did was a great thing for humanity.