Dan McLaughlin writes for the Daily Mail that President-elect Donald Trump risks making a mistake that would echo the current president’s latest miscue.
Armed with his thumping electoral mandate, President-elect Donald Trump has a golden opportunity to do justice and restore order in America.
But he could also easily blow that by issuing a blanket amnesty to deplorable January 6 rioters who caused real bloodshed and chaos.
‘I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,’ he told NBC News in an interview this weekend when discussing his plans to pardon rioters.
That is concerning indeed.
Instead of acting like President Joe Biden, the moment calls for asking what Democrats would do… and doing the opposite.
Yes, Biden’s scandalous pardon of his wayward son Hunter does give Trump a lot of political cover to hand out pardons once he is sworn in as president again. And there could be more to come: Biden aides are reportedly talking about pardoning all sorts of people in Washington, including – most preposterously – former chief medical advisor to the president Dr. Anthony Fauci.
But none of that means Trump has to follow suit. After all, Biden’s Democrats weren’t just wrong; they also lost the election. Americans don’t want more of the status quo.
Trump has survived the Democrats’ four-year drumbeat over January 6, which dominated the campaign, to secure the biggest Republican victory in a generation. He even survived a January 6 indictment by Biden’s special Justice Department prosecutor Jack Smith. Clearly, voters are happy to consign the whole sorry chapter to history.
But they also elected Trump to end the disorder that prevailed under Biden, and bring sanity to a weaponized justice system which has committed itself to political witch hunts while letting violent criminals go free. Trump needs to break the rotten cycle and end the madness – not perpetuate it.
