Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump’s pardoning the January 6 protesters created “a pretext for more political violence in our country.”
Host Chis Hayes said, “The president of the United States released violent criminals. And this is not hyperbole and this is not editorializing. I am just stating what happened.”
Booker said, “No, it’s worse than that, Chris. It’s so much worse than just that. It’s worse than that because he’s basically saying, if I incite you to riot, if I don’t get my way, if I lose in the democratic fashion, I’m going to send you to do things that are anti-democratic. And if you attack the Capitol, if you stop the peaceful transfer of power, if you stop the workings of Congress, if you attack violently, police officers with stun guns to the neck, with batons to the head, if you…
