In the unprecedented events surrounding Donald Trump's inauguration, Joe Biden met with Trump at the White House. Contrasting Biden's memorials, House Speaker Mike Johnson had flags at full staff for Trump. During the visit, Trump bluntly criticized Biden, claiming a rebalancing of justice was needed. By day's end, Trump honored his promise by commuting sentences and pardoning 1,600 participants in the January 6th insurrection, thus effectively legitimizing the violent actions against Biden's election and highlighting a chilling shift in American political accountability.
Before the day was over, Trump had rebalanced the scales, commuting the sentences of the people convicted of sedition in the Jan. 6 attack.
The violent attempt to overthrow Joe Biden's election was categorically, entirely legal.
Biden sat and listened as Donald Trump attacked him as a lawless president.
This was what Trump had promised all along, even as people supposed out loud that surely he wouldn't give clemency to the people who had actually beaten police officers.
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