A woman in her seventies served two months hard time after being found guilty for rioting on Jan. 6, but she is promising to refuse any pardon from “felon” Donald Trump.
Pam Hemphill, from Boise, Idaho, was once all in on Trump, but she condemned the former and incoming President in an appearance on CNN earlier this year, going as far as to say he is “totally responsible” for what happened that day.
She ultimately admitted she was in a “cult,” and backed Vice President Kamala Harris
On Sunday, Hemphill claimed that members of the MAGA movement had called her probation officer to try to get her in trouble. That attempt, she said, “backfired.”
“I’m not going to be bullied by MAGA anymore, as those who went as far as calling my Probation Officer trying to get me in trouble backfired on them, thinking I would stop speaking out, just give me more confidence to continue!” she said. “I will refuse a pardon from felon Trump!”
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It’s great to see stories of people successfully leaving the cult. That’s incredibly difficult to do. Proud of her.
Trump would have been convicted if not elected, DoJ report says
President-elect Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election - which he lost - if he had not successfully been re-elected in 2024, according to the man who led US government investigations into him.
The evidence against Trump was “sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” Special Counsel Jack Smith wrote in a partially released report.
It makes no sense that they let this happen. Why just go along with it? Why not even try to use the power of the sitting Democratic administration to stop it? Why not push the trial to occur? Why not actually give a sentence with the charges against him?
There are so many things that could have been done differently. I’ve heard some people saying the Democrats wanted him in office, but I don’t buy that. If that’s what they wanted, they could have just done all the shit he’s saying he’s going to do himself.
I want to think it’s some kind of long con to dismantle the Republican party or to innoculate us against authoritarianism as a society, but that doesn’t really fit with his track record from the last time around.
I keep waiting for some last minute shit to happen and it keeps not happening. The Democrats didn’t even try to argue that electoral votes for an insurrectionist were invalid. And now all these companies are rolling over to ditch any semblance of striving for equity before he even gets in the door. Not that I thought they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, but shit.
I’ve been meaning to get a passport but the funding for the nonprofit I work for is looking dicey for the next year so I’m afraid to spend any more than I absolutely have to in case I need it for rent. Even if I did go to Canada, do I really want to do that if he’s just going to invade it anyway? At least now I’m in one of the somewhat safer states. I’d considered going to Europe, but what happens when I sell my car to get there and then war breaks out or my visa flops and I have to go back? At least now I’m mobile.
Something has to give. At least in WWII there was this alliance of liberal democracies and communist states to fight against it. What happens when all of them are just… absorbed by it? Europe doesn’t have the force projection to do much of anything even if they had the firepower and the political backing. I suppose there’s still hope for the US military refusing to obey unlawful orders and defending the Constitution, but that isn’t exactly the most ideal situation either.
I suppose civilian institutions might resist the worst of it? State governments? Even the more hopeful scenarios don’t look great right now.
This is not where I thought we’d be a couple of years ago. I saw the first Trump term coming when the DNC put their foot on the scale for Hilary. I did not see this.
While we’re here, anybody notice that all those Democratic vote spoiling accounts literally disappeared into the aether the minute the election was over?
See how important it was that they took their time to dot their i’s and cross their t’s? Just imagine where we’d be now if they rushed it!
Fuck.
I also don’t think she should be pardoned or that Trump should get away with any of his crimes but it’s stupid to not take one. If he’s not in prison why should she be?
She did her time and has been out a long time already.
No rent. Food, clothing, healthcare, so many other things taken care of. I can see how it might be appealing to some, even if it’s not for me. Makes me wonder, what did she escaped from, that seems worse than jail to her.
It’s glossed over in the article, but she’s already been released.
I don’t know if it’s part of trying to build a narrative or if they’re trying to whitewash her name, but Pam Hemphill (great last name) wasn’t just some old lady who got caught up in the moment. In fact, January 6th wasn’t even her first time storming a capitol; she was part of the mob that shattered the glass door at the Boise capitol a few months before J6.
This exposé lays a lot more bare about her time as “the unofficial videographer of the far-right in Idaho,” her harassment and scapegoating of BLM, and her early adoption of and ardent support for People’s Right Network. Of course, that’s the antigovernment militia founded by wanted, but not pursued, fugitive Ammon Bundy.
If the name “Bundy” sounds familiar to you and you’re not thinking about serial killers or sitcom characters, you’re probably recalling the ridiculous 2014 standoff between the Bundy family with their militia and the federal government due to Ammon’s brother getting fined for allowing his cows to graze on BLM-managed land.
Pam has known what she was doing for a few decades now, going all the way back to grifting recovering addicts with inflated credentials as a reference, to claiming her mother was an unknown serial killer of 30-40 immigrant infants which she claims were left to ferment in a wine vat. Private investigations have failed to find any truth to these claims.
While Hemphill may actually reject a Trump pardon or might have actually turned over a new leaf, Black Lives Matter leaders insofar regard her claims and behavior as performative and attention-seeking. They might have a point, considering the new mustang Pam bought in 2021 after creating a givesendgo campaign which she claimed was to fund “her lifestyle as a citizen journalist.”
BLM in
thisthe second case is Bureau of Land Management - not Black Lives Matter for those confused.Oh shoot, I mentioned both… The first time is Black Lives Matter, the second time is
BeerowBureau of Land Management. Guess I should probably clean that up.Yea but then i wouldn’t have been able to link a funny video, though i was partially wrong as well, lol
Oh, well if Pam says it, I guess we will have to do something about it.
