Police union endorses Trump despite his glorifying jailed Jan. 6 'hostages' who attacked officers

Donald Trump has opened campaign rallies with a recording entitled “Justice For All” featuring the J6 Prison Choir singing “The Star Spangled Banner” intercut with the former president reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The recording, released in March 2023, was recorded by prisoners in a D.C. jail held on more serious charges resulting from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that Trump is accused of instigating. The Washington Post identified five of the roughly 15 men featured in the J6 choir video, with four of them as being charged with “assaulting police using weapons such as a crowbar, sticks and chemical spray, including against Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died the next day.”

And yet, as HuffPost observed, police unions so far “have not offered a single word of criticism” over Trump’s continued glorification of the accused and convicted criminals who attacked Capitol Police and D.C. Metro officers on Jan. 6.

Earlier this month, one police union, the International Union of Police Associations, which is an AFL-CIO member, endorsed Trump for president, stirring outrage among some of the Capitol Police officers attacked in the insurrection. The IUPA also endorsed Trump over Joe Biden in 2020.