'Screw it': CNN panelist warns belief in 'invincibility' is powering risky Trump decisions

A CNN panel on Tuesday predicted that President-elect Donald Trump was likely to pardon even the most violent rioters who stormed the United States Capitol on his behalf on January 6th, 2021.

Republican strategist Brad Todd began the discussion by saying he only believed that Trump would pardon low-level January 6th offenders rather than violent offenders such as members of the Proud Boys.

"I think if he were to pardon Stewart Rhodes or Enrique Tarrio or any of the instigators... I think those pardons will be controversial and they should be," he said.

But CNN political analyst Alex Thompson, however, seemed much more certain that Trump would pardon even the most violent MAGA rioters.

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"There is this sort of feeling on many issues within the Trump orbit of invincibility," he explained. "And there's definitely a feeling of exuberance, just, 'Screw it, let's just do everything we said we were going to do.'"

CNN analyst Zolan Kanno-Youngs shared Thompson's sentiment.

"The easiest way to do a pardon action quickly, like on Day 1, is to issue a sweeping categorical pardon," he said. "So if you're going to start to disperse it and look at each individual crime, it's going to take longer and now you start to have pressure from the base after you've committed to doing this early on."

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