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Now Trump ‘Considering Compensation’ for Jan 6 Rioters
There really is no end to this felonious president’s racist and criminal behavior. This is reparations writ large…and white.
Slaveowners felt entitled to and often received compensation from local, colonial and state legislatures, especially in times of crisis — when enslaved women and men ran away, participated in rebellions or were executed for crimes. During the American Revolution, slave owners demanded compensation when their black bondspeople who had been worked to death, or when they sided with the British and ran away.
— When Slaveowners First Got Reparations, Princeton University
How they done us.
— Willie Lee Dyer, 1915–1991, my mother.
In an interview with Newsmax’s Greg Kelly, who is perhaps second only to Fox’s Sean Hannity in soft-balling questions to Trump, the felonious president allowed that he is seriously considering establishing a “compensation fund” for the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol Building and whom he pardoned on “Day One” of his renewed criminal regime.
The operative and utterly leading question Kelly posed was this:
