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Now Trump ‘Considering Compensation’ for Jan 6 Rioters
There really is no end to this felonious president’s racist and criminal behavior. This is reparations writ large…and white.
Slaveowners felt entitled to and often received compensation from local, colonial and state legislatures, especially in times of crisis — when enslaved women and men ran away, participated in rebellions or were executed for crimes. During the American Revolution, slave owners demanded compensation when their black bondspeople who had been worked to death, or when they sided with the British and ran away.
— When Slaveowners First Got Reparations, Princeton University
How they done us.
— Willie Lee Dyer, 1915–1991, my mother.
In an interview with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly, who is perhaps second only to Fox’s Sean Hannity in soft-balling questions to Trump, the felonious president allowed that he is seriously considering establishing a “compensation fund” for the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol Building and whom he pardoned on “Day One” of his renewed criminal regime.
The operative and utterly leading question Kelly posed was this:
“Is there any talk — because they lost opportunity, income — any kind of compensation fund?”
The convict’s response:
“I took care of them,” answered Trump. “I said I was going to, and I did.”
But…what about giving them some money, Mr. Felon?
“Well, there’s talk about that, we have a lot of people talk about that, lot of people that are in government now talk about it, because they — a lot of people in government really like that group of people. They were patriots as far as I was concerned. I talk about them a lot.”
Note that even after Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people involved in the attack, many of whom had been convicted of violent assaults on police officers, Trump’s lawyers and officials tried to go even deeper by seeking pardons for some convictions that were not directly related to the attack, including illegal firearms possession charges.
