Conservative figure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expressed what many in the MAGA movement were thinking after journalists criticized President Donald Trump’s blanket pardons for those involved in the January 6th events. While walking through the halls of power, a reporter approached her to ask if individuals charged or convicted of violence should have their sentences commuted. Greene promptly ended the conversation, displaying a bored expression and responding sharply.
“Is that all you really talk about, the J6ers who’ve been pardoned?” she asked the stunned female reporter, who mustered back a quick “yeah.” “Okay, are you gonna talk about the Biden family that got pardoned?” MTG continued. “I have been,” the reporter replied.
“Oh, well, what about the rapers and killers and murderers that Joe Biden pardoned. Is that a focus at all?” Greene got out before the reporter tried to direct her back to the Jan. 6 pardons issued this week by Trump. “I know that’s what you’re asking about, but I’m not doing this,” Greene fired back. “This, this insane place up here, and all of y’all’s obsession with January 6th, is absurd. Everyone else out of here is sick and f***ing tired of it. I’m serious.”
“And so Joe Biden pardons all of these murderers and rapists and disgusting people, and then everybody up here has got their panties in a wad because J6ers got pardoned. A lot of them walked through open doors – that’s it!” she adds in the viral clip. “Thank God, I hope they go live their lives and can reassemble something together because they have suffered enough.”
Greene also pointed to the many left-wing Antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors who rioted in the summer of 2020, only to see lenient judges slap them on the wrist with community service, if any of them were charged at all. “Over ninety-five percent of them, seriously,” she claimed. “Go do a story on all of these cities that BLM burned to the ground and then never built back.”
Trump acknowledged the widespread sentiment on Monday when he moved to immediately pardon over 1,500 individuals who have served time or were in the middle of fighting their charges as he took office. “This is a big one,” Trump said in the Oval Office while signing their freedoms into law, adding, “We hope they come out tonight, frankly.”
