Vice President-elect JD Vance said Sunday who he thinks should and shouldn’t receive presidential pardons for their actions during the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“If you protested peacefully on Jan. 6 and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned,” Vance told “Fox News Sunday.”
He added, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
Vance’s comments broke slightly from what President-elect Donald Trump has laid out in his pardon plans.
In a December interview with NBC News, Trump told “Meet the Press” that on his first day in office he would pardon his supporters who rioted on Jan. 6, adding that the rioters have been prosecuted in a “very nasty system.”
“I’m going to be acting very quickly, first day,” Trump said, adding that the rioters who have been convicted have “been in there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”