Jesse Watters praises Trump for issuing pardon to Jan 6 rioter arrested for “punching a cop at a rally that got out of control”
Watters: “Twenty years is a long time for punching a cop in the face, and these guys got squeezed into pleas”
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From the January 22, 2025, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime
JESSE WATTERS (HOST): We can have compassion, but not at the expense of civilization. This silly bishop's mercy is what's wreaking havoc on our borders and our inner cities and in the ladies rooms. Democrat mercy let thousands of killers into this country. Their mercy got Laken Riley raped and slaughtered. Democrats had mercy on anarchists who firebombed federal buildings in Portland, showed mercy to BLM after they ransacked and firebombed cities. They showed no mercy to the police when they voted to defund them.
But Democrats want to put a guy in jail for 20 years for punching a cop at a rally that got out of control on Jan sixth. Trump said these guys were overcharged, showed some mercy and said "F it, release them all." That's actually a quote. So when the media isn't defending DEI, they're defending the Jan sixth charges, watch.
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We want to be accurate here. CNN's not only losing to cartoons, they're losing to a baking show and RuPaul's Drag Race. And for the record, we don't think you should be able to punch a cop in the face and get away with it, but 20 years is a long time for punching a cop in the face, and these guys got squeezed into pleas.