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The Dramatic Injustice of the January 6 Pardons

Podcast audio:

In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Ben Bayer and Elan Journo discuss Trump’s blanket pardon of all the people involved in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Among the topics covered:

  • How Trump’s blanket pardon lets outrageous evil off the hook;
  • How Trump’s claims about the 2020 elections and the January 6 attack are arbitrary;
  • How Trump and many Republicans are attempting to rewrite reality;
  • How the pardons normalize political violence and reflect the tribalism of our culture;
  • Why the blanket pardoning is an attack on the Constitution and the rule of law.

Recommended in this podcast are the podcast episodes “The Storming of the Capitol” and “The January 6 Hearings.”

The podcast was recorded and posted on January 22, 2025. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Watch archived podcasts here.

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Itamar Feldman

Itamar Feldman, B.S. in mathematics, is a participant in the ARU Honors Program.

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