Retired Judge On CNN: This is all nonsense. These people are not hostages, they’re not heroes, they’re not political prisoners, they’re criminals. They attacked people, they assaulted people, they committed property damage. They, they committed so many crimes, of course, the seditious conspiracy that you mentioned, and they were convicted and sentenced. So I understand there’s a power in power, but this was overly broad. All these people, I thought he was gonna separate the violent and the non violent. That’s what JD Vance told us. What happened? It didn’t happen.
Kaitlin Collins: Yeah, what does it tell you that, that he did? I mean, he parted virtually everyone, not just those who’ve been convicted, people who start ongoing cases, people who had pleaded guilty and said, yeah, I did do that.They all, they all were, can I actually, what do you make of what Trump keeps saying, which is they don’t deserve to be in jail for this long? I, I just think of Patrick Mccaughey who used Officer Daniel Hodges’s own shield against him. He was sentenced to seven and a/2 years. He had served less than three years of that. I mean do you think that that’s enough time served for someone like that?
Retired Judge: I don’t. I think the sentences that the judges gave are the right sentences. Those judges worked hard on those sentences. I know what it’s like. You read those pre sentence report, you get letters, you hear from both lawyers, you think hard about a sentence. It just doesn’t happen with no work. So when these judges made these decisions, they were thoughtful, they were right. I don’t think they were too long at all. And I think people should have served them.
But Maddow and her guests don’t mind Biden’s pardons, clemency, and commutations.
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