Jan. 6 rioters shouldn’t all be pardoned

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If President-elect Donald Trump is to pardon any of the convicted January 6, 2021, rioters, he should not pardon them all but do it case by case, Trump’s former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says.  #USA #January6th

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00:00Should those guilty of violence on January the 6th, 2021 be pardoned or not?

00:05If you ask someone like Senator Lindsey Graham, he'd say,

00:08I should think those guilty of violence should not be pardoned,

00:12but many others would probably say they should be within the ranks of the GOP.

00:18How united is the party on this particular issue, do you think?

00:21I think there was something the party could rally to, it would be this,

00:24which is I have been involved in pardons before when I was running the West Wing,

00:28is that it should not be a blanket approach.

00:32Any attempt at a blanket clemency, a blanket pardon for everybody,

00:36just wave the magic presidential wand and everything goes away,

00:40will be perceived as trying to sweep the events under the carpet of history,

00:44and I don't think that would serve the country well,

00:47I don't think it would serve the Trump administration well,

00:49I don't think it would serve the Trump legacy well.

00:51If Donald Trump chooses to look at pardons and clemency and so forth,

00:55he should do it in a way that is case by case.

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