Insurrectionists beat cops with flag poles, crushed them with riot shields, tased them in the neck, and spat on them during the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 , 2021. But when President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he has no tolerance for “insurrectionists” who clash with police officers, he wasn’t talking about the 1,500 rioters he pardoned upon assuming office earlier this year; he was talking about people in Los Angeles , California, protesting his administration’s anti-immigration actions.

Speaking to reporters outside of the White House on Monday, the president claimed that demonstrators opposing sweeping ICE raids in L.A. were “professional agitators, they’re insurrectionists, they’re bad people,” and that “they should be in jail.”

It’s clear that whil

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