Huckabee hopes charges are brought against all rioters: ‘It shouldn’t be left or right, it’s right or wrong’

Rioting is wrong regardless if it is conducted by the left or the right," Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee said on Friday, reacting to the charges brought against the Capitol rioters.

"You can’t have this kind of thing because, frankly, I don’t think you should have it in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York, or L. A. either," the former Arkansas governor told "America’s Newsroom."

Huckabee said that though he is "happy to see" the Capitol rioters get prosecuted, he hopes the same penalties will "extend" to the rioters who participated in destruction last summer.

"I think I am happy to see these prosecutions. I hope that they will extend to those people who ran against federal buildings in all of these major cities, who tore down government property, who assaulted police officers across the country. It shouldn't be a left or right thing, this is a right or wrong thing."

Huckabee reacted to a left-wing activist who told Fox News last week that he’d followed a pro-Trump mob into the Capitol in order to "document" the siege. John Sullivan is now the subject of a criminal complaint in connection wit... (Read more)

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