Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has said that he will pardon all peaceful January 6 (2021) protesters if he gets elected as the next US president in 2024.
“America now has a two-tiered justice system: Antifa (ultra-left group)bl and BLM (Black Lives Matter ) rioters roam free while peaceful January 6 protesters are imprisoned without bail. Biden’s ‘Department of Injustice’ has executed over 1,000 arrests for nonviolent offenses related to January 6, casting a dark shadow over Lady Justice and the foundational principles of our legal system,” Ramaswamy said in a statement on Wednesday.
“To unify this country, I commit as president to pardon all Americans who were targets of politicised federal prosecutions and those denied due process. This includes all peaceful, nonviolent January 6 protesters who were denied their constitutional due process rights,” he further said.
Ramaswamy said he would end the weaponisation of police power in America and noted that every Republican candidate must be clear on hard issues.
Earlier, he had said that while he expects to become the party’s nominee for the November 2024 US elections, he will vote for Trump if the former president secures the nomination. “If Donald Trump’s the nominee — yes, I will support him, and if I’m the president, yes, I will pardon him because that will help reunite the country. But it’s not the most important thing I’m going to do as the next president. It is the table stakes for moving this country forward,” Ramaswamy told ABC News.
