The former president and his lapdog from South Carolina have fallen into a familiar routine over the idea of pardoning Jan. 6 rioters
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of pardoning Jan. 6 rioters during a rally in Texas last Saturday. “If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” Trump said. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons.”. “I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was okay,” he said, adding that those who breached the Capitol should “go to jail and get the book thrown at them, because they deserve it.
It’s tempting to write Trump and Graham’s latest spat off as just another performative takedown from our WWE-superstar former president, but there’s a little more going on here. Trump often deploys the “RINO” accusation when someone disagrees with him, there’s barely anything to the clip from Tuesday night. He and Graham both know the jab is just going to slide off the South Carolina senator’s back like nothing.
Instead, the larger purpose here is for Trump to re-establish his dedication to his supporters. Graham and Trump are both playing their role — Graham as a moderating force, and Trump as the firebrand that wants to free his fans and pardon everyone for their crimes. This same dynamic played out last month, when Grahamnot to hold a big press event at the resort on the anniversary of the insurrection. Trump ultimately relented.
Still, it’s clear that justice for the Jan. 6 rioters is going to be a core of Trump’s pitch in 2024, which is already promising to revolve around a narrative of correcting the record for 2020 and reinstalling our “rightful president” that was only taken out of office by corrupt Democrats. Clips like this let Trump establish that he puts his base over his party, which is precisely what built him up as an outsider candidate in 2016.
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