Karl Rove: Jan. 6th Protesters Are Not Hostages, ‘They’re Thugs’
Karl Rove: Jan. 6th Protesters Are Not Hostages, ‘They’re Thugs’

ROVE: “If they were smart, they’d take the January 6th and go hard at it, and they would say, ‘He wants to pardon these people who attacked our Capitol.’ I worked in that building as a young man.

To me, the Congress of the United States is one of the great examples of the strength of our democracy and a Jewel of the Constitution.

And what those people did, when they violently attacked the Capitol in order to stop a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College, is a stain on our history, and every one of those sons of [ bleep ] who did that, we ought to find them, try them and send them to jail.