Trump Honors Police – Four Months After Freeing Hundreds Of Felons Who Assaulted Them | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump honored fallen Florida law enforcement officials on the White House Monday, simply shy of 4 months from the day he launched from jail tons of of home terrorists who assaulted police to additional his coup try after he misplaced the 2020 election.

“I’ll stand by for my invitation,” stated Harry Dunn, a former Capitol Police officer who was among the many tons of who had been punched, kicked, hit with boards, stabbed with flag poles and attacked with bear spray on Jan. 6, 2021. “I’m glad law enforcement does get recognition. It is a hard, thankless job that the law enforcement officers do daily. I just wish the thanks didn’t have to come from a 34-time convicted felon.”

More than 140 law enforcement officials had been injured by Trump’s mob. One, Brian Sicknick, died hours after being assaulted, and 4 others died by suicide within the weeks and months to comply with. Trump didn’t attend the service for Sicknick within the Capitol. Nor did he attain out to his household, or to these of the others.

“Surprised it’s not a joint invitation with the criminals he pardoned since he views them in the same light,” Dunn stated.

The Oval Office ceremony awarded medals to 3 Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies who died after being struck by a driver on a street close to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago nation membership final 12 months. The commemoration got here two days after the top of “police week,” as Trump had proclaimed the week of May 11-17.

The occasion occurred the identical day Trump’s Department of Justice agreed to pay the household of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt $5 million. Police shot her to dying as she crawled via a broken-out window into the Speaker’s Lobby, the room behind the House chamber via which lawmakers had been being evacuated for his or her security. Babbitt had come to the Capitol as a result of she had believed Trump’s lies that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.

Trump and his aides have additionally talked about organising a compensation fund for these convicted for his or her roles within the Jan. 6 assault whom Trump later pardoned.

While there isn’t a home terrorism statute, the actions of these convicted of attacking police on Jan. 6 meet the definition of terrorism: That is, participating in violence to impact a political purpose.

Likewise, whereas there isn’t a federal statute towards participating in a coup per se, Trump’s actions main as much as and on Jan. 6, 2021, meet the definition of an tried self-coup — that’s, utilizing the levers of presidency and violence, or the specter of violence, to attempt to stay in energy illegally.

Trump and his allies and apologists have spent the previous 4 years creating fictionalized variations of Jan. 6 wherein the violence was stirred up by “antifa” and different left-wing agitators, adopted by a model of the day wherein there was no violence towards police in any respect, and, in the end, one the place that violence that did occur had all been instigated by the FBI and different “deep state” actors.

When HuffPost requested Trump in February why he had pardoned these convicted of violent felonies for his or her actions on that day, Trump launched right into a tirade, claiming that the rioters, not the police, had been the victims on this case.

“I pardoned people who were assaulted themselves. They were assaulted by our government. I … pardoned J6 people who were assaulted by our government. That’s who were assaulted, and they were treated unfairly. There’s never been a group of people in this country, outside of maybe one instance I can think of, but I won’t get into it, that were treated more horribly than the people of J6. So no, I didn’t assault. They didn’t. They were assaulted, and what I did was a great thing for humanity,” he stated.

Trump was additionally indicted on conspiracy and fraud expenses for his efforts to overturn the outcomes of the election he had misplaced. But the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024 delayed a scheduled trial by granting him broad immunity for actions he took whereas president. Then, after Trump received the workplace again in November, the DOJ dropped the costs underneath its longstanding coverage to not prosecute a sitting president.