FACT CHECK: Vance and Trump Don’t Disagree on Jan 6. Pardons

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s pardoning of 1,500 people charged with crimes committed on Jan. 6, 2021, corporate media outlets are suggesting Vice President JD Vance was out of step with Trump when he said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned” in a recent interview with Fox News.

Nevertheless, the vice president qualified his statement in the interview: “There’s a little bit of a grey area there, but we’re very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law, and there’s a lot of people, we think, in the wake of January the 6th who were prosecuted unfairly. We need to rectify that.”

MSNBC’s Steve Benen was quick to portray these events as an example of a rift between Trump and Vance in an article Tuesday morning.