Michael Fanone, one of the officers who was beaten while defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, said on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s pardons for the rioters, including those who attacked the police, is “outrageous, but not surprising.”
Fanone, who also testified at the House Select Committee hearings about the attack, told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I mean, it’s outrageous, but not surprising.”
He added that Trump’s grandstanding to extremists is nothing new. “If you rewind to the beginning of Donald Trump’s candidacy for the office of the president of the United States, which he announced in Waco, Texas, the scene of a violent confrontation between members of the American extremist movement and law enforcement, in which law enforcement officers lost their lives.”