WATCH: Ronna McDaniel Comes Out Against Freeing January 6 Convicts

During a Sunday appearance on NBC's 'Meet The Press,' former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel said she would not support freeing those convicted of January 6-related crimes. However, her language, for the most part, revolved around those convicted of violent offenses. 

"I want to be very clear: the violence that happened on January 6 is unacceptable. It doesn't represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party. We should not be attacking the Capitol. We should not be having violence. I said it that day. I put a statement out that day that this is not acceptable. If you attacked our Capitol and you have been convicted, then that should stay," McDaniel said.

During a January 8, 2021, appearance at the RNC Winter Meeting, Ronna McDaniel told the crowd, "This committee rightly condemns the violence that occurred in the strongest possible terms. Violence does not represent acts of patriotism but an attack on our country and its founding principles. Our founding fathers established a nation of laws, not a nation of anarchy." However, it is unclear if McDaniel is demarcating between violent and non-violent January 6-related arrests -- a distinction that must be made in the lively debate surrounding that fateful day and the penalties January 6ers have faced thereafter. Not all those who took part in January 6 were necessarily guilty of actively attacking the United States Capitol or the police there that day, after all. 

She continued the interview, as previously reported by Breitbart News, adding, "I do not think that people who committed violent acts on January 6 should be freed... When you are the RNC Chair, you take one for the whole team. Now, I get to be a little bit more myself. This is what I believe: I don't think violence should be in our political discourse, Republican or Democrat, and I disagree with that. I agree with him on a whole host of other things. Let's close the border. Let's make sure we have good incomes for people. Let's make sure we do a lot of great things." Later in the interview, McDaniel pointed to the failures of Bidenomics and a whole host of other issues with the Biden economic agenda as reasons for supporting Trump's overall vision. As such, McDaniel concluded by saying, "But on that point, I don't think we should be freeing people who violently attacked Capitol Hill police officers and attacked the Capitol." 

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