CNN's Jim Acosta tries to get Burchett to be a good American.
Jim Acosta, CNN, interviews U.S. Rep Burchett (TN), hilarity ensures. The video is included at the link.
Acosta:
Do you agree with president trump's decision to pardon these violent people and releasing them from jail?
Burchett:
If they were truly violent, no. But, but, do I know that they were. No, I don't know that
Acosta:
What do you mean you don't know that? We're showing the footage on the air right now.
Congressman, you were there that day. There are offenders on January 6 that violently beat police officers.
There are offenders that were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
That is the truth.
continued...
blah, blah, blah
Acosta:
Congressman, are you going to respond and say whether or not it is right to let these people out of jail?
Burchett:
I don't know if it is or not. I'm not a lawyer but I'll tell you what isn't right...
Acosta:
But, you're a Congressman, your a member of Congress, you're an elected official...
Take a stand
Burchett:
They were not given due process.
I told you if they crossed the line they were trespassing. Should they rot in jail for the rest of their lives in a federal penitentiary for [something] and never be charged ...
Acosta:
Beating police officers, tasing police officers, seditious conspiracy
Burchett:
What you are forgetting to say is the ones he didn't release. Why did he not release those?
There are several that he did
This blanket thing you all are talking about is not a blanket...
It, it, it is not a blanket pardon.
There were several that he didn't for those very same reasons
Why are you not focusing on them?
Acosta:
Congressman, we're talking about the leader of the oath keepers, the leader of the proud boys.
They should be released from prison?
Burchett:
What about the leader of the FBI?
What about the FBI agents that were on the ground, that were in that mess?
Sigh...
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At the [Trump presser] event,
At the [Trump presser] event, NBC News’s Peter Alexander asked Trump about why he had just pardoned D.J. Rodriguez, who shocked a police officer with a stun gun at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and later boasted that he “tazzzzed the f--- out of the blue.” The judge who sentenced Rodriguez to more than 12 years called him a “one-man army of hate, attacking police.”
“Well, I don’t know,” Trump replied. “Was it a pardon?”
Alexander reiterated that it was.
“Okay. Well, we’ll take a look at everything,” Trump said, though his pardons of this and other cop-beaters are irrevocable.