Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California tried to peddle a falsity about the Capitol rioting on Jan. 6 and faced swift backlash from critics on social media.
Swalwell was trying to criticize a sweeping order from newly inaugurated President Donald Trump to pardon about 1,500 defendants involved in the 2021 rioting. Fourteen other cases were given commutations as his administration reviews them more carefully.
‘Your rhetoric/gaslighting gave republicans a supermajority. We’re thankful.’
“There has not been a day in America where more cops were hurt in a single event than January 6. For his first act as President, Donald Trump releases every rioter who attacked and hurt those cops,” Swalwell wrote on social media.
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“This is the Joker releasing the lunatics of the asylum to
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