佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯周四被问及如果当选总统可能会使用他的赦免权向1月6日的被告提供宽大处理以至唐纳德·特朗普虽然他没有直接回答，但他表示会考虑。
德桑蒂斯是在接受《每日电讯报》采访时发表上述言论的克莱·特拉维斯&巴克·塞克斯顿秀“在一天后的早期媒体闪电战中发起对共和党总统候选人提名的争夺2024年。
“总统的一大职责是赦免权。你认为1月6日的被告应该由共和党总统来审查他们的案件吗?比方说，如果特朗普被指控犯有联邦罪行，而你是美国总统，你会考虑根据这些指控可能出现的证据赦免特朗普本人吗?”特拉维斯问德桑蒂斯。
这位州长没有提到特朗普或任何具体的1月6日案件的名字，但表示他对这个想法持开放态度。
他表示:“我们将积极发布赦免令。”他辩称，司法部和联邦调查局已经“武器化”，以追求政治目标，而非执法目标。
去年年底，司法部长梅里克·加兰任命一名独立检察官监督DOJ对川普的调查，称这“凸显了该部门在特别敏感的问题上对独立性和问责制的承诺”
德桑蒂斯关于赦免的言论是在一名联邦法官宣布最长的句子1月6日的犯罪。
极右翼“誓言守卫者”的创始人斯图尔特·罗德斯(Stewart Rhodes)被判18年监禁，罪名是阴谋煽动罪和其他罪名。罗兹称自己为“政治犯”。
“先生，你对这个国家构成了持续的威胁和危险，”法官告诉罗兹，还提到了两年前乔·拜登(Joe Biden)赢得总统大选之前，誓言守卫者在美国首都以外积聚的武器储备。
这司法部有报道称，1，000多人因与政府1月6日的调查有关而被捕。
DOJ表示，当天有300多人被指控袭击、抵抗或妨碍官员或员工，100多名被告被指控使用致命武器。
据DOJ称，1月6日，约有140名警察遭到袭击。
在特拉维斯和塞克斯顿的广播节目中，德桑蒂斯说，“我要做的是——我要在第一天做的是——我将让人们聚在一起，看看所有这些案件，他们是人，是武器化或政治目标的受害者。”
州长没有说他是否认为赦免这位前总统是合适的，他与国会大厦袭击事件有关的行为正在接受特别顾问杰克·史密斯的调查。
但是德桑蒂斯说，1月6日被指控的人有可能受到虐待。
“如果有另外三个人做了同样的事情，但只是在像(黑人的命也是命抗议)这样的背景下，他们根本没有被起诉，这是司法不公，所以我们将找到没有发生这种情况的方法，然后我们将使用赦免权，”他说，后来又指出，“这将在个案基础上进行。”
特拉维斯说:“这可能来自一位被逮捕和起诉的祖母，甚至可能是特朗普本人。”
德桑蒂斯说:“我要说，任何基于政治或武器化的不受欢迎的待遇的例子都将包括在那次审查中，无论多小或多大。”。
他的竞选团队没有回应澄清他的赦免评论的请求。
这位佛罗里达州州长在塔拉哈西以共和党的绝对优势控制了州政治，他在接受采访时表示，作为总统，他将比通常情况下行使更多的行政权力，吹捧办公室可以实施第一天变革的“杠杆”——包括绕过独立执法机构的规范。
被问及DOJ和联邦调查局WTN 99.7的史蒂夫·墨菲德桑蒂斯说，“民主党总统，但主要是共和党总统，已经接受了他们是独立[机构]的想法，你不能卷入其中。不，他们向当选总统负责。你完全有权利叫来司法部长，叫来联邦调查局局长，说，‘嘿，等一下……你为什么要这么做?’"
周三晚上，德桑蒂斯宣布了他期待已久的候选资格在与埃隆·马斯克的一次推特活动中最初因技术故障而推迟。
由于他的一些主要对手，如特朗普，抓住故障批评德桑蒂斯，他的团队表示，这些问题是由于在线活动太受欢迎了，导致Twitter的容量紧张。
初步民调显示，他可能是特朗普在共和党提名中的最大挑战者。
到目前为止，德桑蒂斯有时会抨击特朗普在竞选中的记录，他在田纳西州的一次电台采访中说，他觉得特朗普“向左跑了”。
一位发言人说，周四，他参加了迈阿密的一场捐赠活动，并在开始竞选后的24小时内筹集了820万美元。
Asked about pardoning Trump as president, DeSantis says he would be 'aggressive'
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was asked on Thursday about potentially using his pardon power if elected presidentto offer clemency to Jan. 6 defendantsor evenDonald Trump-- and while he didn't answer directly, he suggested he would consider it.
DeSantis made his comments while appearing on the "The Clay Travis& Buck Sexton Show" amid an early media blitz one day afterlaunching a bid for the Republican presidential nominationin 2024.
"A big part of being president is pardon powers. Do you think the Jan. 6 defendants deserve to have their cases examined by a Republican president? And if Trump, let's say, gets charged with federal offenses and you are the president of the United States, would you look at potentially pardoning Trump himself based on the evidence that might emerge of those charges?" Travis asked DeSantis.
The governor did not mention either Trump or any specific Jan. 6 cases by name but suggested he was open to the idea.
"We will be aggressive [in] issuing pardons," he said, arguing that the Department of Justice and FBI had become "weaponized" to pursue political rather than law enforcement goals.
Late last year, Attorney General Merrick Garlandnamed an independent prosecutorto oversee the DOJ investigations of Trump, saying then that it "underscores the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters."
DeSantis' remarks about pardons come on the same day a federal judge handed down thelongest sentenceto date for a Jan. 6 crime.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. Rhodes calls himself a "political prisoner."
"You, sir, present an ongoing threat and peril to this country," the judge told Rhodes, also citing the stockpile of weapons that the Oath Keepers had amassed outside the nation's capital ahead of the certification of Joe Biden's presidential win two years ago.
TheDepartment of Justicereports that more than 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the government's Jan. 6 investigation.
More than 300 people have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees that day, the DOJ has said, and more than 100 defendants have been accused of using deadly weapons.
About 140 police were attacked on Jan. 6, according to DOJ.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a fundraising picnic for U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa.
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On Travis and Sexton's radio show, DeSantis said that "what I'm going to do is -- I'm going to do on day one -- I will have folks that will get together and look at all these cases, who are people, who are victims of weaponization or political targeting."
The governor didn't say whether he felt a pardon would be appropriate for the former president, whose conduct related to the attack on the Capitol is being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith.
But DeSantis said that there was the possibility that those charged in Jan. 6 were being mistreated.
"If there are three other people who did the same thing, but just in a context like [Black Lives Matter protests] and they don't get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice, and so we're going to find ways where that did not happen and then we will use the pardon power," he said, later noting "it will be done on a case-by-case basis."
"And that could be from a grandma who got arrested and prosecuted to all the way up to, potentially, Trump himself," Travis said.
"I would say any example of disfavored treatment based on politics or weaponization would be included in that review, no matter how small or how big," DeSantis said.
His campaign did not respond to a request for clarification on his pardon comments.
The Florida governor, who has commanded state politics with a Republican supermajority in Tallahassee, has indicated in interviews that he would wield more executive muscle as president than is typical, touting the "levers" of the office that can enact day-one changes -- including by bypassing norms of independent law enforcement agencies.
Asked about the DOJ and FBI byWTN 99.7's Steve Murphy, DeSantis said, "Democrat but mostly Republican presidents have bought this idea that they're independent [agencies] and you can't be involved with them. No, they answer to the elected president. You have every right to call in the attorney general, call in the FBI director and say, 'Hey, wait a minute … Why are you doing this?'"
DeSantis declared his long anticipated candidacy on Wednesday nightduring a Twitter event with Elon Muskwhich was initially delayed by technical glitches.
As some of his primary opponents, like Trump, seized on the malfunction to criticize DeSantis, his team said the problems were due to how popular the online event was -- straining Twitter's capacity.
He enters the race as potentially the biggest challenger to Trump for the GOP nomination, early polls show.
DeSantis has sometimes jabbed at Trump's record in his campaigning so far, saying in one radio interview in Tennessee that he felt Trump was "running to the left."
On Thursday, he attended a donor event in Miami and raised $8.2 million in the 24 hours after starting his campaign, a spokesman said.
