After Trump hung j6 protestors out to dry

Please educate me

Sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for the good of your leader.

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This is not anti trump,

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Of course it is but its a fair point. He really didn't use his bully pulpit much for those people. Populism ain't always going to deliver what his people want, it's going to deliver what's popular. There wasn't much to be gained by making a big issue out of the J6 prisoners, so he didn't make it a big issue.

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Why would anyone go stick their neck out this time around? This is not anti trump, just an observation on what happened last time around.

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Tell us when these people were charged?

This is what I mean. I know he didn't intentionally leave them high and drive from the get go. But it's like a QB throwing high to his WR over the middle. They brought the hammer down and he didn't really do anything. Now the opposite is in power, and it doesn't exactly make things enticing to go back again for those people.

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Tell us when these people were charged?

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When was Nixon charged?

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This is what I mean. I know he didn't intentionally leave them high and drive from the get go.

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He was already out of power, so I think the criticism that he could have pardoned them is stupid and unwarranted. But he does like to talk, a lot, and he never used that to make their treatment a big issue. A tweet on truth social every now and then; that's about it.

But as I said, a populist is going to act like a populist.

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quote: Tell us when these people were charged?

When was Nixon charged?

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Both scenarios are irrelevant. You don't have to be charged in order to receive a pardon. But you have to name an individual or a specific group, or groups, of people. Not hard to do in the Nixon/Watergate case.
Quite a bit different in the case of the J6 protestors when you consider the time frame & the number of hired hands/instigators/infiltrators that would get a free pass. There's also an expectation that the DOJ wouldn't partake in the mistreatment of prisoners while annihilating their Constitutional rights.