Name: Ronny Chieng Took On Trump's J6 Pardons, Signalgate Fallout & Elon’s DMs in 2025 | The Daily Show
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Trump was also getting yelled at by everyone just because he released hundreds of violent insurrectionists back into the streets or something.

And, yeah, okay, they beat some cops and broke some windows, but they were doing it for him.

And the media won't shut up with these unfair gotcha questions.

You would agree that it's never acceptable to assault a police officer?

So then if I can, among those, you pardon DJ Rodriguez.

He drove a stun gun into the neck of a D.C.

police officer who was abducted by the mob that day.

He later confessed on video to the FBI and pleaded guilty for his crimes.

Because we're looking at commutes and we're looking at pardons.

Okay, well, we'll take a look at everything.

Shouldn't you look at it before you issue the pardon?

Step two, look into which prisoners we should release.

So part one of his answer about this whole January 6th thing is, well, take a look.

Which is Trump speak for we will never look at this again.

But if that doesn't satisfy you, he has another reason.

But I can say murderers today are not even charged.

You have murderers that aren't charged all over you.

Take a look at what's gone on in Philadelphia.

Take a look at what's gone off in la, where people murder people and they don't get charged.

See, some murderers aren't in jail, therefore nobody should be in jail.

If he lets these violent criminals go, they're not.

There's a chance they'll kill the other violent criminals and then they'll just cancel each other out.

And to be fair to Trump, he has been campaigning on releasing the Gen 6 prisoners for years now.

Everyone just assumed he didn't mean the violent ones, which would mean going through all the cases one by one.

New reporting from Axios this morning details the private back and forth amongst President Trump's team over how many January 6th rioters to pardon the case by case review was onerous.

Trump staffers wondered whom to pardon and who might slip through the cracks.

Time was running out heading into Inauguration Day as Trump's team wrestled with the issue.

Trump just said, eff it, release them all.

And look, you can't expect someone to go through all these cases one by one.

I mean, the FBI did, and the prosecutors did, and the judges did, and

the juries and the paralegals and the person who types in that weird little typewriter no one else knows how to use.

It's much easier to just click, select all delete.

So in the very first seven hours of the Trump administration, we already have our first big controversy, which of course, leads to the classic ritual of a Trump presidency.

Then Republicans get asked about it, and they're like, uh, wha.

Do you agree with President Trump's decision to pardon these violent people?

Well, I've said what I said before, and that is we're not looking backwards.

I haven't seen the details, but I think a lot of those pardons are definitely well deserved.

What about those who assaulted police officers and then were pardoned by the President?

We're talking about people that were beating officers with fire hydran, metal batons.

Tommy Tuberville didn't watch January 6th yet.

But there's just so much to watch these days.

You know, he's still got 9, 11 and Benghazi on his DVR.

This is like a Titanic survivor saying, I haven't seen the movie.

So, to sum up day one of Trump's presidency, Church is bad.

By now we all know the story about how Trump's team included a reporter in their war planning group chat.

And we don't need to hear it again, but it is super funny.

So let's hear about it again this morning.

Fallen from that stunning lapse in national security.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hagseth, along with other top members of President Trump's national security team, sharing details about a planned large scale attack on Yemen earlier this month on the commercial message app Signal, and

inadvertently including journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

On that chain, Hegseth shared operational details of forthcoming strikes, weapons deploying, and attack sequencing.

Goldberg also reported that when it comes to security, Hexset wrote at one point, we are currently clean on opsec.

That's the acronym used for operational security.

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