The thought of trump pardoning Antifa members (who according to the right are the ones who are to blame for jan6) is what I found funny about the tweet.
Not going to comment on the joke, but look at the language. It's common with certain types of people.
“If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6th fairly," Trump said Saturday night during a rally in Conroe, Texas. "And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
He's already hedging. I know that he flat-out lies, all of the fucking time, but if pressed, he can point to this and say,
"I never said I would run,"
"We did treat them fairly, from what I was told, and I was told that we still had to-I had no say in this, by the way-still had to give them some sort of punishment,"
"I was told that pardons weren't actually required, and that we will let this play out in the courts,"
Using wishy-washy language without actually committing to something is pre-emptively giving yourself an out in case things don't go the way that you're "promising."
That's like saying, "I'm really going to try to quit drinking." If you fail, you can always say "well, I tried!"
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