The incoming vice-president’s remarks on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream slightly deviated from a prior promise by Trump to consider pardoning even those who acknowledged assaulting police officers, saying “a very corrupt system” left them with “no choice”.
“If you committed violence on that day, obviously you should not be pardoned,” Vance said to Bream.
Yet, later off air, Vance assured that pardons remained on the table for at least some convicted in the 6 January 2021 attack, saying the second Trump administration cared about “people who got a garbage trial” and were “unjustly locked up”.
He doesn’t need to redefine violence. His follow up comments show that they will just claim that any violent Jan 6th criminal they pardon didn’t really do any violence, and was convicted for a crime they didn’t commit and any video evidence to the contrary is just fake new.