Is he offering any sort of explanation for why these people weren't pardoned

Because of people from forum you moderate and more such people hating him. It is like Coventry...

He would lose and all his supporters would lose. Pardoning those people would be recognised as "admission of guilt" about capitol riot despite capitol riot was really NOT Trump or Trump supporters job - provocateurs who made it were released free, poor conservatives who were useful idiots being in wrong place and wrong time are still in jail.

Who knows - after such decision maybe even witch-hunt over all Trump supporters as "terrorists" would be more powerful,maybe hundreds of thousands people would be arrested or attacked other way ? Don't say you not saw people on the left wanting that already... After January 6 left wanted conservatives blood. Don't say that even today it isn't showed on red.dit and in MSM as we are all here terrorists or worse.

I don't know really when the hell military wants to stand if will. But all of this is still possible only because those people were NOT pardoned despite being innocent. Because Trump speech was longer than planned on January 6. Because censored Trump speech after Capitol was attacked was really about:

we have to have peace

and asking people for returning peacefully to homes

Some good people in jail or more his supporters in jail and he losing and maybe getting in jail.Lesser evil... Lesser evil if Q isn't bullshit like some people - including you - believe. Many people here are pissed of because of those people being kept in jail without pardon and because of "vaccine". But sometimes there is no choice for good,only for lesser evil.