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One of President-elect Trump’s former campaign advisers said the incoming commander-in-chief did not promise to pardon all Capitol Hill insurgents, amid speculation over how far the pardons promised by Trump on Jan. 6 could be extended.
“He didn’t promise to pardon anybody. He said he would look at it on a case-by-case basis, but just be real, those are the words,” David Urban, who worked on the Trump campaign in 2016, said during an appearance Monday on ” CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins. .”
The former president has promised it check quickly the cases of those imprisoned for their actions on January 6, 2021 during the riots that sought to annul the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Urban claimed that some protesters were unjustly arrested and injured while attending the uprising.
“And to be fair, the only person who died on January 6th, Ashli Babbitt, was the only person who died,” added Urban, who is now a CNN political commentator.
“She would not have died if a police officer had not wrongfully shot her. I wish the January 6 committee would have done a full investigation for the American people to see and hear.”
Babbit was shot by a Capitol Police officer while trying to climb through a broken window near the speaker’s lobby.
Although he was the only person killed during the attacks, a bipartisan Senate report said seven deaths were linked to the unrest, including three police officers.
Collins and other panelists dismissed Urban’s remarks, saying he was “splitting hair” and downplaying the actions of others who gathered that day.
“You can talk about Ashli Babbitt, but that doesn’t discount other people’s actions,” Collins told Urban.
About 140 police officers were assaulted while trying to protect lawmakers and the Capitol building, according to the Justice Department, which has prosecuted hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters over the past four years.
Trump’s plan to grant pardons to rioters has rattled Capitol Police who suffered life-changing injuries that day.
former sergeant Aquilino Gonell and former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn called the promised pardons “betrayal.”
“They broke the law, violated police officers, attacked us, and then came back and said we did it in the name of Donald Trump,” Dunn said in an interview with the Washington Post.
“And then donald trump he will forgive them and say it’s okay, all is forgiven.”
Members of Congress who investigated the Capitol insurrection have strongly opposed pardons for the rioters. However, Republicans who now control the House and Senate have suggested Trump will meet little resistance regardless of how their pardons are applied.
