Miranda Devine: Trump used his finite political capital to pardon the Jan. 6 riot defendants and right the egregious wrongs of Bidens DOJ

It took chutzpah for Donald Trump to pardon the Jan.6 Capitol Riot defendants and use up a big chunk of his finite political capital to do the right thing, against the advice of polite Washington. That so many people still don’t understand that it was the right thing to do is a product of a sophisticated and Machiavellian four-year propaganda campaign led by the Democratic Party’s biggest liars, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, and their tame GOP patsy Liz Cheney. As much as the pardons right the wrongs against individual defendants, they also are a repudiation of the J6 prosecutions and the entire weaponized legal apparatus under Joe Biden. Before delving into the injustice and Stasi-like harassment of 1,500 J6 defendants that drove at least five to suicide, it’s worth looking at the absurdity of the wider case. Of all the crimes and threats to the United States — terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, espionage, drone attacks — why was a four-hour riot in Washington, DC singled out by the DOJ and FBI to be the biggest investigation in their history? Bigger than 9/11, bigger than Enron. The J6 riots did $1.5 million damage to the Capitol building compared to $2 billion damage caused by the BLM-Antifa George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020.

Not to mention 25 deaths, and countless injured cops. With thousands of FBI and DOJ personnel mobilized to hunt down every Trump supporter who set foot on Capitol grounds, the cost of the J6 prosecutions has been immense, even with the free labor of malicious self-styled citizen “sedition hunters.” An extra $780 million was allocated to the FBI and the DC US Attorney’s Office just in 2022 for J6 cases, which they were working right up until Trump’s inauguration.The full cost over four years is yet to be calculated, but the opportunity cost was equally high.

For example, FBI whistleblower Steve Friend says he was taken off child sexual abuse cases to investigate J6. How many children...