Mother Jones

In case this wasn't rhetorical, the article quotes its sources.

An X account purporting to represent Jake Lang, who’s incarcerated in DC while awaiting trial on charges that he beat police officers at the Capitol, posted a lengthy message addressed to Vance, writing in part: “The J6 Hostages families have been CRUSHED by the mixed messaging coming from the White House on the J6 Pardon Process recently. WE ARE UTTERLY CONFUSED!!”

“We have been waiting 4 years for this moment, & now it seems like your Administration is going to possibly leave some of our brothers behind; to rot away in the gulag for the next 10 to 20 years,” the post continues, before falsely alleging that that “ALL” insurrectionists “were set up and trapped by the FBI” and falsely claiming that all protested peacefully. “Mr. Vice President @JDVance, there is only one solution: BRING ALL OUR J6 POWs HOME!! NO MAN LEFT BEHIND – DAY ONE FULL PARDONS & CLEARING OF THE PRISONS!!”

In another post on X, someone identifying themselves as “January 6th survivor” Philip Anderson—the same name as someone facing felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions that day—alleged Vance’s comments were hypocritical, writing: “Telling your own supporters that the election was stolen and then not giving them a pardon or commutation after you sent them into what you call a “fedsurrection” and “trap” is a betrayal. All of the J6 defendants must be saved. JD Vance is wrong and I hope Trump will save his own supporters.”