KENTUCKY —  On this week’s In Focus Kentucky program, we’re sitting down one-on-one with Congressman James Comer, R-Ky., of Tompkinsville getting updates on issues of importance to the Commonwealth and the nation.

During this ‘In Focus Kentucky’ segment, Rep. Comer discusses President Donald Trump issuing over 1,500 pardons during his first day in office for those convicted of crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots on the U.S. Capitol, including the 172 people who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers.

“President Trump, for better or worse, was emboldened by Joe Biden pardoning his entire family in his last act as president, but with respect to President Trump, he said he was going to pardon the Jan. 6 people and you know where Joe Biden said he wasn’t going to pardon his family? Joe Biden lied. Donald Trump, whether you like to pardon or not, he said he was going to pardon those Jan. 6 prisoners, is what he called it. And he did again everything that he’s doing is pretty much what he said he was going to do during the campaign. So I think he was transparent about it. Certainly there are a lot of questions about what all happened on Jan. 6. And my question with a lot of people that were still in prison in Washington, D.C. is, why have they never had a court? It’s like their due process. Was it applicable to them? And it just seems like in Washington, D.C., if you get caught carjacking, you don’t even spend a night in jail. But many of the people that were involved in the in the Jan. 6 deal, they’ve been incarcerated for four years and never even had a had a trial, so that, on top of the Jan. 6 committee and a lot of the questions that have come out recently about whether evidence was destroyed or witnesses were taverned with I think that just calls into question with a lot of conservatives, especially about the whole Jan. 6 episode,” said Rep. Comer.

Also during this segment, Kentucky Rep. Comer shares reaction to the Trump administration rescinding on Jan. 29 a memo issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calling for a funding freeze on thousands of federal programs, pending review by the administration.

“It was very confusing. I don’t know if the Trump administration made a mistake or if the media misinterpreted their order, but they made the decision to just stop because no one wants to see school lunch programs in. No one wants to see Meals on Wheels in, and that was what people were calling our office about. And I strongly support the school lunch program. I was one of the sponsors of the legislation to allow the schools to continue to prepare two meals a day for students during COVID, even when the schools weren’t open. So I’m a big believer in providing two meals a day to all the kids in public schools in every county in Kentucky. And I’m a big believer in the meals, the worst program. So we’re going to do everything we can to make sure those continue. And I think the President supports those programs. It’s just some other programs that were passed. You know, there was an effort to what they call Trump proof, the new Trump administration, when they when they came in and tie their hands on that’s what they were targeting. And I don’t know again if Trump made a mistake or if the media misinterpreted it, but, but hopefully, that issue has been resolved,” explains Comer.

You can watch the full In Focus Kentucky segment in the player above.