Exclusive — White House Sources: JD Vance Helped Develop, Advocate Broad J6 Pardons Throughout Entire Transition
Matthew Boyle 21 Jan 2025 Washington, DC
Establishment media forces and establishment Republicans like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are attacking Vice President JD Vance after President Donald Trump pardoned a broad swath of January 6 political prisoners, arguing what Trump did went against what Vance said he supported during a recent interview some time before the inauguration.
But White House sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that nothing could be further from the truth and that Vance was specifically advocating for the exact broad approach that Trump ended up executing on his first day in office. Vance, two different White House officials and others familiar with his role told Breitbart News, was throughout the course of the entire transition since election day advocating for exactly what Trump did and helping develop the pardons and process and approach.
“Throughout the transition, JD was behind the scenes pushing as hard as possible for broad pardons and commutations of the J6 hostages,” a source familiar with Vance’s role in executing this strategy told Breitbart News on Tuesday.
Vance’s press secretary Taylor Van Kirk also issued a broader statement publicly saying Vance is 100 percent in line with Trump here and that the media should spend more time focused on the controversial pardons by former President Joe Biden of his family members in his final hour as president on Monday.
Van Kirk said:
As Vice President Vance said on Fox News Sunday, pardoning the January 6 protestors would be handled on a case by case basis, which of course meant there was always going to be a large degree of gray area. Due to the corrupt process of these prosecutions, President Trump rightly decided to grant a broad pardon to all wrongfully convicted January 6 protestors. Despite the mainstream media’s obsession with January 6, the outgoing administration’s application of presidential pardons for members of the Biden family are far more deserving of additional media scrutiny.
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