With Trump Pardons, The Jan. 6 Coup Attempt Is Finally Complete

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From the Live Blog of Trump’s Day 1.

Under Cover Of 'Shock And Awe,' Trump Takes Concrete Steps To Hobble Government

Hindsight being 20-20, as it is, Trumps sweeping pardons of the J6 rioters, including the violent ones who attacked law enforcement officers, was completely predictable. It completes the circle of denial… of his own criminal activity, and that of everyone else involved. Wipes out the guilty verdicts and the sentences and the ongoing and not yet initiated prosecutions. (Note, however, that it does not wipe out the convictions… for what that’s worth.) We need not speak of who won the 2020 elec…