It was good of President Donald Trump to pardon certain people sentenced in connection with the Jan. 6 riots just as the late President Jimmy Carter pardoned “draft dodgers” who escaped their military service, Trump’s former speechwriter Professor Francis Bukley says.
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00:00And out of all of those dozens of executive orders that have been signed off, I mean this
00:05is to both of you, let me start with you Professor Buckley, did anything take you by surprise?
00:10Anything you weren't perhaps expecting to be announced quite so soon after he swore
00:14the oath of office?
00:15Well, it was better than my fondest hopes of what would happen.
00:20I'm particularly delighted, for example, with the pardons given to the J6 rioters.
00:27I'm happy that not everybody got a complete pass, but I think it's a wonderful symbol
00:34that we should turn the page on the past, right?
00:37For the last couple of years, all we've heard from the left is insurrection, etc.
00:45And we know it wasn't really like that at all.
00:49I'm reminded of what happened when Carter issued a pardon for all of the draft dodgers
00:55in Canada.
00:58He was criticized a little bit for that, but the signal was, look, it's over.
01:02Vietnam is over.
01:03Turn the page.
01:04Get over it.
01:05Come back to America.