OREGON STANDOFF: AMMON BUNDY'S PLEA TO PRESIDENT TRUMP TO PARDON THE HAMMONDS
"Why hasn't Trump pardoned the Hammonds?"
"People want to say well maybe President Trump doesn't know but I disagree......"
"We love him and honor him and we want him and plead with him to relieve us and start with the Hammonds"
Ammon Bundy In Video With Kelli Stewart 1/4/2018
Dwight and Steven Hammond were prosecuted as terrorists for lighting a backfire to protect their property in Harney County, Oregon and forced to return to a federal prison in January of 2016 to serve out mandatory five year "terrorism" sentences.
Their imprisonment led Ammon Bundy to launch the Oregon Standoff protest two years ago this month (January 2, 2016).
He told activist and supporter Kelli Stewart in a video posted originally on Facebook late Thursday night that "there is not a more egregious case in decades" when it comes to the Hammonds.
Ammon Bundy said: "That's why we went into the refuge, so we could get enough attention that the Hammonds didn't have to go to prison".
The Hammonds were abused for decades by federal officials leading up to the backfire case.
Blogger Gary Hunt posted a series of articles in 2016 ("Outpost of Freedom") detailing everything that happened.
Gary Hunt Blog Post In Series "Burns Chronicles"
Ammon Bundy said in his discussion Thursday night that he wants to believe that President Trump is a "man of the people" but things that have happened since he took office like the three Bunkerville trials with the egregious misconduct of prosecutors do not point to that.
"I want to believe he is for us" Bundy told Stewart but he hasn't seen any concrete evidence of the president taking a right action in regards to Bunkerville or Oregon.
Ammon Bundy cites the Hammonds in prison and says this:
"....It makes me sick that they're still there and why hasn't our President pardoned him, pardoned them, both of them? Why?......The Hammonds hadn't done anything wrong in the first place......"
".....People want to say well maybe President Trump doesn't know but I disagree and there's lots of reasons why......."
"..........And one factual point that I can make is that when we first went into the refuge and Trump was running for president, he was still running for the Republican nomination, he said in one of his speeches and he actually said it multiple times that in one of his more prominent speeches he said that, he referenced what was going on in the West with the ranchers and he also referenced the bureaucratic abuse of the Bureau of Land Management...."
"....And he said that if I were president that the ranchers would see relief and that has not happened....."
"....I know he's a busy man..... those wicked people up there are keeping him busy just trying to defend himself from their lies. I get that......"
"...We love him and honor him and we want him and plead with him to relieve us and start with the Hammonds...."
Ammon Bundy with Kelli Stewart on Facebook 1/4/2018
Bundy says the prosecutors in the Hammonds case including the man nominated by President Trump to be permanent US Attorney in Oregon, Billy Williams, lied and withheld evidence and decided to use terrorism charges against the Hammonds in the first place.
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