2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/PARDONS: “Former President Donald Trump called people serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6 riot ‘hostages, not prisoners’ during a campaign event held at an oil and gas service facility in Houston on Thursday.
‘I call them the J6 hostages, not prisoners. I call them the hostages, what’s happened. And it’s a shame,’ Trump said as he kicked off the campaign stop…
The former president speaks often in support for accused and convicted Jan. 6 rioters [who protested the 2020 election], often using their convictions to claim that there is a one-sided justice system…
He has also said he would consider pardoning some of those convicted if he is elected again in 2024.”
-Jake Traylor, “Trump calls people charged and convicted for Jan. 6 riots ‘hostages,'” nbcnews.com, November 3, 2023