“They have to release the people that are incarcerated.”
“If I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
“FREE ALL J-6 PATRIOT POLITICAL PRISONERS”
“I will be looking at them very, very seriously for pardons — very, very seriously. They’ve been treated very unfairly.”
“We’ll be looking very, very seriously at full pardons because we can’t let that happen — what’s happened here. And I mean full pardons with an apology — to many, an apology.”
“Horrible and Unconstitutional treatment of January 6 PATRIOTS”
“They’re sitting in a jail nearby, rotting away and being treated so unfairly like nobody’s probably ever been treated in this country before, except maybe me.”
“‘Trump’ and most others are totally innocent, LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!”
“LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO. THEY WERE CONVICTED, OR ARE AWAITING TRIAL, BASED ON A GIANT LIE, A RADICAL LEFT CON JOB.”
“I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control. … They’ve persecuted these people. And, yeah, my answer is, I am most likely, if I get in, I will most likely, I would say it will be a large portion of them.”
“We’d look at individual cases. But many of those people are very innocent people. They did nothing wrong.”
“Tonight, I’m announcing that the moment I win the election, I will appoint a special task force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who has been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration. You know what’s going on better than anybody. So that I can study the situation very quickly and sign their pardons or commutations on Day 1. I want to sign them on Day 1.”
“I’d certainly look at it. I’d look at that. And I’d look at all the other people that have suffered, the J6 people.”
“I call them the ‘J6 hostages.’ Not ‘prisoners,’ I call them the ‘hostages.’”
“The cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed”
“When people who love our country protest in Washington, they become hostages unfairly imprisoned for long portions of their life.”