Reacting to comments Donald Trump made in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker over the weekend, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough warned the president-elect he will infuriate a wide swath of Americans who voted for him if he pardons all of the January 6 rioters on his first day in office.
Speaking with Welker, an animated Trump said of the imprisoned insurrectionists, "I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day. They’ve been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”
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After noting Trump also wants lawmakers and DOJ officials who investigated the assault on the Capitol to suffer legal consequences, an incensed Scarborough told his "Morning Joe" panel, "One thing he was very specific about, as you will note, was January 6th rioters that are going to be released. and my question is this: when push comes to shove, on January the 20th, on January 21st, is he really going to pardon people that were violent, that beat up cops, that gassed cops, that used bear spray against cops?"
"If so, there will be a tremendous backlash even from people that voted for him," he asserted.
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