Greg Kelly suggests pardons for people who committed violence on January 6: “So the people who started fighting, I mean, do they not deserve a pardon, too?”
Newsmax host Greg Kelly on January 6: “What do you do when the police unlawfully provoke violence? And that's what a lot of people believe happened.”
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From the January 13, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports
GREG KELLY (HOST): Well, I like JD Vance. I like half of that. But actually, some of the people who committed violent acts, actually, well, many of them have gotten a raw deal as well. This has never been adequately investigated because we never had an adequate investigation into the whole damn thing. But, I don't know, what do you do when the police unlawfully provoke violence? And that's what a lot of people believe happened. They did not issue a warning before throwing chemical munitions into a mostly, if not universally peacefully assembled crowd.
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KELLY: Why is this guy throwing these basic hand grenades into a crowd? And people aren't, like, they aren't lunging toward officers or anything like that? You see, this is stirring up a fight, stirring up a fight where there was no fight. So the people who started fighting, I mean, do they not deserve a pardon, too? I think that has to be looked into. I wouldn't rule anything out. The whole thing was a kind of a setup, many of us believe.