JD Vance Defends Trump's J6 Pardons in CBS Interview

“I think it’s very simple,” Vice President JD Vance told Fox’s Shannon Bream on Jan. 12. “If you protested peacefully on January the 6th and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Just 14 days later, Vance went to bat for President Donald Trump issuing a blanket pardon for those brought up on Jan. 6-related charges. In an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Margaret...