How captured is CNN? This is a paragraph from its news report attempting to justify the coming hundreds and hundreds (maybe 1,000+) pardons for unrepentant participants in what they knew was an armed rebellion. They saw the violence. Heard the alarms and chants. Walked over toppled barricades. CNN:

I represented thousands of poor criminal defendants as a public defender, many of them non-white. The January 6 defendants are well-to-do whites, so CNN invents these new criminal defenses: ▪️ The Caught Up in the Frenzy Defense ▪️ The Trespassed But Didn’t Assault Defense ▪️ The Police-Did-It Defense