Senator Adam Schiff condemned President Donald Trump for pardoning roughly 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol riot, particularly those who assaulted law enforcement. During his appearance on MSNBC's The Last Word, Schiff remarked that these pardons are reminiscent of actions taken by emerging dictatorships. He emphasized that by issuing pardons to violent offenders, Trump sends a dangerous message that he supports such violence, ultimately posing a threat to democracy. Schiff categorically denounced the pardons as indicative of a troubling trend toward authoritarianism.
These people he just pardoned were beating police officers within an inch of their life, the senator said. They were bear-spraying them.
The pardons are the sort of thing that happens in nascent dictatorships. This step of essentially pardoning people who commit violence... is a tragic step in that direction.
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