Vice President-elect JD Vance visits Fox News Sunday with anchor Shannon Bream

JD Vance’s plan for pardoning the right January 6 prisoners doesn’t sound as “simple” as he says.

Though Vice President-elect Vance told Fox News Sunday that people who “committed violence” during the 2021 insurrection at the Capitol “obviously” shouldn’t be pardoned, he offered some interesting exceptions in a tweet later on Sunday.

During his conversation with anchor Shannon Bream, the former senator from Ohio tried to draw a distinction between two types of protestors who descended upon the US Capitol Building on Jan 6.

“I think it’s very simple, look if you protested peacefully on January 6th, and you had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned,” he told Bream. “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”

“There’s a little bit of a gray area there,” Vance noted, however.

WATCH: @JDVance lays out President-elect Trump’s pardon process for January 6th........

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