https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4398808-gop-senators-slap-down-trump-on-jan-6-hostages/
GOP senators slap down Trump on Jan. 6 ‘hostages’
Republican senators are slapping down President Trump’s claim that people convicted of Jan. 6-related crimes are “hostages” who should be pardoned or set free by President Biden or a future president.
Three years after a mob of pro-Trump protestors invaded the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election, GOP senators who witnessed the violence of that day bristle at the characterization of individuals who were convicted of crimes as “hostages” or political prisoners.
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), a member of the Senate Republican leadership team, dismissed Trump’s claim — echoed by some other Republicans — that individuals who were convicted of destroying property or assaulting police officers in the Capitol are “hostages.”
“Somebody who’s been duly convicted of a federal crime is not a hostage,” he said.
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Some in the GOP have a spine. Who knew?