{"id":30386,"date":"2025-01-13T16:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/jd-vance-walks-back-trumps-pledge-to-pardon-january-6-protesters-on-day-one-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:18:43","slug":"jd-vance-walks-back-trumps-pledge-to-pardon-january-6-protesters-on-day-one-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/jd-vance-walks-back-trumps-pledge-to-pardon-january-6-protesters-on-day-one-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance walks back Trump\u2019s pledge to pardon January 6 protesters on day one \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming vice-president says people who \u2018committed violence\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be pardoned as surveys suggest blanket pardons would be unpopular with Americans<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/13\/jd-vance-trump-fox-january-6\">Vance says Trump supporters who \u2018committed violence\u2019 during Capitol attack shouldn\u2019t be pardoned<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The excessive drinking and marital infidelity Pete Hegseth is reported to have engaged in as a civilian would have put him at risk of disciplinary action, had it happened while he was in uniform. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hegseth-trump-defense-secretary-military-code-8b944ef52a4a33ca40915ec343e5b2b9\">The Associated Press reports<\/a> that military officials have grown uneasy with the prospect of him leading the defense department.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more:<\/p>\n<p>If Pete Hegseth were still in uniform, his extramarital affairs and a decision to flatly ignore a combat commander\u2019s directive would not just be drawing the attention of senators \u2013 they could have run afoul of military law.<\/p>\n<p>That is raising questions among current and former defense leaders and veterans about whether Hegseth would be able to enforce discipline in the ranks if confirmed as <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-hegseth-defense-senate-confirmation-questions-c5209938f7ccf7afe6ade7818817ca07\">President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s defense secretary<\/a>. Hegseth would oversee more than 2 million troops who could be disciplined or kicked out of the service for the same behavior <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-background-defense-secretary-confirmation-hearing-e160e10c86385a8beff110d9190fb34e\">he has acknowledged or been accused of<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/13\/trump-vance-transition-inauguration-politics-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming vice-president says people who \u2018committed violence\u2019 shouldn\u2019t be pardoned as surveys suggest blanket pardons would be unpopular with Americans Vance says Trump supporters who \u2018committed violence\u2019 during Capitol attack shouldn\u2019t be pardoned The excessive drinking and marital infidelity Pete Hegseth is reported to have engaged in as a civilian would have put him at &#8230; <a title=\"JD Vance walks back Trump\u2019s pledge to pardon January 6 protesters on day one \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/jd-vance-walks-back-trumps-pledge-to-pardon-january-6-protesters-on-day-one-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about JD Vance walks back Trump\u2019s pledge to pardon January 6 protesters on day one \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}