A prisoner who participated in the US Capitol riot four years ago has turned down President Donald Trumps pardon request.
There should be no pardons for the riot on January 6 2021 Pamela Hemphill who entered a guilty plea and received a sentence of 60 days in prison told the BBC.
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“Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” she said.
“I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative.”
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Hemphill, who was nicknamed the “Maga granny” by social media users – in reference to Trump’s “make America great again” slogan – said she saw the Trump government as trying to “rewrite history and I don’t want to be part of that”.
“We were wrong that day, we broke the law – there should be no pardons,” she told the BBC World Service’s Newsday programme.
Just hours after his inauguration, Trump made a decision to pardon or commute the sentences of nearly 1,600 people involved in the attempt to violently overturn the 2020 election in his favour.
In a news conference on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the White House, he said: “These people have already served years in prison, and they’ve served them viciously.
“It’s a disgusting prison. It’s been horrible. It’s inhumane. It’s been a terrible, terrible thing.”
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