Headline Roundup January 31, 2022
Perspectives: Trump Previews Potential Second Term
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Saturday, Former President Donald Trump held a rally in Texas and raised the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 if he were to run and win in 2024.
Trump also issued a warning to prosecutors who he believes are treating the rioters unfairly and continuing to go after him in an attempt to discover unspecified crimes relating to the riot and effort to discredit the result of the 2020 election. Some left-rated media framed the remarks as vengeful and dangerous; some right-rated media cited the many attempts by prosecutors to investigate Trump since before he took office, framing their efforts as highly politicized and partisan.
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REUTERS/Go Nakamura
U.S. former President Donald Trump said on Saturday if he were to run for president and win in 2024, he would pardon people charged with criminal offenses in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 assault by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump, who has not said whether he will run for president again after his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, was speaking at a rally in Conroe, Texas.
"Another thing we'll do, and so many people have been asking me about it, if I run...
CNN Digital
Former President Donald Trump conjured a vision of a second term that would function as a tool of personal vengeance, and become even more authoritarian than his first, when he vowed to pardon US Capitol insurrectionists if he runs for the White House again and wins.
His pledge at a Texas rally Saturday was accompanied by a call for demonstrations if prosecutors in New York, who are probing Trump's business practices, and those in Georgia, looking into his attempts to reverse his election loss in the state, do anything that he defined...
Brandon Bell/Getty
Former President Donald Trump used a rally speech in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday night to issue a warning to activist prosecutors who are continuing to pursue him in an attempt to discover unnamed crimes, more than a year after he left office.
Trump recounted all of the various efforts to investigate him since before he took office, including the “Russia collusion” hoax and other investigations, all of which found nothing except for an ongoing claim about “fringe benefits” in his business.
“This has been going on as long as you’ve known me....
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