I think Trump’s pardons and commutations for some of the January 6th perpetrators went too far — especially those who assaulted law enforcement — but I don’t want to hear sh_t from any leftists about that when Biden, shortly beforehand, did this. From John Hinderaker:
perhaps the most outrageous of such actions was Biden’s commutation of Leonard Peltier’s life sentence for murdering two FBI agents. The murders happened in 1975, on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. The FBI agents, trying to arrest a robbery suspect, were ambushed by a group of Indian terrorists that included, and I believe was led by, Peltier. The agents were wounded in a gun battle and then shot in the head.
You may wonder, why in the world would the murderer of two FBI agents be a candidate for commutation? The answer is that Peltier was a darling of the identitarian Left. CNN calls the murderer an “indigenous activist,” while leftists call Peltier a political prisoner and a hero. Peltier fandom isn’t limited to the fringe: Elizabeth Warren–no doubt influenced by her supposed Indian heritage–and Bernie Sanders asked Biden to commute Peltier’s sentence in 2023.
