I read on the BBC (rolling coverage, I think, can't find it now) that the number of Capitol rioters pardoned or issued with commutations by Trump, some of whom assaulted or caused the deaths of law enforcement officers, is approximately the same as the number of Afghan refugees, some of whom helped the US during their occupation of Afghanistan, whose tickets to the US have been cancelled by Trump. Around 1,500-1,600 if I remember correctly. (The BBC didn't make the point that the numbers are similar, I just noticed the similarity.)

Yet presumably Trump admirers will consider these decisions by Trump admirable. Hard to fathom. In my view, these decisions show that he lacks morality and will bring the US into disrepute.

Cop who survived Capitol riot injuries condemns Trump's pardons

Trump pardons give Jan 6 defendants nearly everything they wanted

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Winston Pingeon, a Capitol Police officer who was punched and pepper sprayed that day, told Newshour the pardons were a "slap in the face".

"It's really an unprecedented thing to know that these violent felons who were convicted by a jury of their peers for crimes that were largely broadcast for all the country and the world to see are going to walk free," he said.

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Afghan refugees feel 'betrayed' by Trump order blocking move to US

"It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.

He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. He worries he can't help his sister and her husband escape too, because of President Donald Trump's executive order suspending a resettlement programme.

The order cancels all flights and suspends applications for Afghan refugees, without any exemption for families of active service members.

Trump argues the decision addresses "record levels of migration" that threaten "the availability of resources for Americans".

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Babak, a former legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force, is still in hiding in Afghanistan.

"They're not just breaking their promise to us - they're breaking us," he says.

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Babak can't understand the president's decision, given that he worked alongside US troops. "We risked our lives because of those missions. Now we're in grave danger," he says.

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Trump, or the Mango Mussolini as I saw him described the other day, invited the Taliban to the White House.

Police unions and associations are up in arms about the release of the Jan 6 rioters & thugs but why?

They all backed Trump and he said he would pardon them.

I mean people usually vote for candidates who lay out their policies although many like the odious Starmer can lie outrageously but Trump did say, amongst his babble, that he would do certain things like pardon the rioters and deport millions of immigrants.

Yet YouTube is full of interviews with cops and farmers who bizarrely didn't think he meant their immigrant workers. And people on insulin or the various disabled programs he's just cancelled. Maybe it's because they block out all media bar outlets like Fox News that preaches to the Maga mob.

Pardon violent treasonous protestors (because they did it for you and screw US Democracy) and renege on Afghans who assisted the US.

A fit president would see the integrity of the US as more important than himself. On both these coubts, Trump of course fails...

Trump needs to look at Jan 6 more closely, how many Feds were there at encourgaged people to storm through.

I don't mean just Ray Epps, who told people to "Storm through the Capitol".


Owen Shroyer was jailed just reporting on it for Infowars.

The media always silent on the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was unharmed and shot by the police.

The USA routinely betrays locals who aid them.

They've been doing it since the Vietnam War.

And something odd happened during the first Trump presidency where dozens of Russian "assets " were rounded up and executed.

How Russia got the information remains a mystery.