GOP Senator Twists Himself In Knots Defending Trump's Promise To Pardon J6 Insurrectionists

Watch Oklahoma Republican Sen. Marywayne Mullin try to defend Trump's statement that he "absolutely" would pardon January 6th rioters who assaulted police officers "if they're innocent" while pretending he's not defending insurrectionists who assaulted police officers.\

And CNN's useless Dana Bash allowed him to do it, and basically tried to put words in his mouth instead of holding his feet to fire for being a MAGA toady flip-flopper.

Here's the exchange from this Sunday's State of the Union:

BASH: Senator, this week Donald Trump said he would absolutely pardon January 6th rioters, even those who have been convicted of attacking police officers. You helped barricade the door to the House chamber on January 6th, and we're showing a photo of that right now, and you're prepared to fight the rioters if necessary.

Would you be comfortable with Trump pardoning people who have been convicted of attacking police officers?

MULLIN: You know, unfortunately we saw a lot of people on January 6th get caught up in politics. You saw the FBI start calling them domestic terrorists, and they stayed with that for several years after that, January 6th, and I mean the last three years, it's just recently quick to quit using the term, they kept referring them to domestic terrorists.

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