JD Vance explains what Trump’s process to ‘fix’ the ‘improper’ impeachment of Jan 6 could look like

Focusing on President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to pardon the Jan. 6 is getting tighter, as he returns to the White House with eight days to go.

Vice President-elect JD Vance — who, like Trump, has been critical of the justice system allegedly rigged by protesters — laid out how their crimes would be weighed when considering pardons.

“If you protested peacefully on January 6th, and Merrick Garland’s Justice Department treated you as a gang member, you should be pardoned,” Vance told Fox News’ Shannon Bream during an exclusive interview. On Sunday.

“If you commit violence on that day, it is clear that you should not be forgiven, and there is a gray area there, but we are very determined to see the equal treatment of the law. And there are many people, we think, after January 6 who are unjustly prosecuted. We need to fix that.

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Trump previously promised to pardon the protesters on Jan. 6. on the first day of his next administration, he said NBC’s Kristen Welker last month that the members of the January 6 committee in Congress were arrested.

“I’m going to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases,” Trump told Welker as he outlined his plans. “But I will act quickly.”

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The incoming administration faces many challenges from the border crisis to hostages in the Middle East to domestic disaster relief once all the members are sworn in.

The perennial wildfires raging through southern California are one of the problems the Trump administration must address. With the gap between Trump and Democratic officials widening, the intended path forward seems unclear.

“President Trump is committed to doing a better job when it comes to disaster relief. That’s true for hurricane victims and flood victims in North Carolina. It’s true for fire victims in California. We need to do a better job. We need to govern properly,” Vance said.

The January 6 incident at the US Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

“That doesn’t mean you can’t blame the governor of California, I think, for the worst decisions in a very long time. Some of these reservoirs have been dry for 15, 20 years. And I think that’s part of the reason why these fires are so bad. We need to do a better job at both the county and the federal level.”

Newsom’s press office, on the other hand, referred to Trump’s previous comments criticizing the governor for alleged mismanagement of water supply, via X post, saying, “LADWP said that due to the high demand for water, the pumping stations at high altitudes did not have enough pressure. tanks at high altitudes, and the ongoing fire hampered crews’ ability to access the pumps.”

It added, “Simply speaking, there is no water shortage in Southern California right now, despite Trump’s claims that he will turn on the imaginary spigot.”

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Hannah Panreck and Gabriel Hays of Fox News contributed to this report.