Trump called out on MSNBC for already walking back key promise to MAGA base

After running clips of Donald Trump promising before the election to pardon all of the Jan. 6 rioters, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire called out the former president's sudden about-face just days after he was re-elected.

In July the former president was asked, "Officers were assaulted that day. There were broken bones, one officer lost an eye, one had two cracked ribs, two had smashed spinal discs, another had a stroke. Were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those I just mentioned patriots who deserve pardons? My question is on those rioters who assaulted officers? Would you pardon those people?" to which he replied, "Absolutely I would."

As "Morning Joe's" Lemire pointed out, that promise has apparently gone by the wayside.

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"You heard Trump there, very clear of what he would do," the host explained. "Yesterday, a campaign spokeswoman distanced the Trump transition team from that promise, telling NBC News that president Trump will make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis."

"Yeah, he could do that," panelist Eugene Robinson offered. "Look, the range of possibilities is from a total blanket pardon, it was a day of love, and they're all pardoned or no pardons. You know, one or two –– who knows if he's going to do it case by case, that means whim by whim in Donald Trump's world and so we have no idea what he's going to do. The idea that this is even a thing, that this is even being considered is ridiculous and outrageous, but it's what he said he would do and imagine –– what about the cases that haven't been brought yet?"

'They are never going to be brought by Matt Gaetz if he is attorney general," he added.

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