“I know he had hinted at a blanket pardon for the January 6 thing for anybody, but I think he had all the staff and everyone involved, not January 6, but just before he left office,” said former Trump White House aide John McEntee in a taped deposition. “The general tone was, we may get prosecuted because we were defensive of, you know, the president’s positions on these things,” recalled former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann. Jim Jordan talked with the White House about pardon updates for members of Congress but did not specifically ask.
“Every Congressman and Senator who voted to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania,” read an email from Brooks, requesting pardons for himself, Gaetz and others involved in election objections.įormer aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, also said Rep. Mo Brooks - asked the White House for pardons in some form in the final days of the Trump administration following the Jan.
FORMER ACTING ATTORNEY TRUMPS EFFORTS SUBVERT SERIES
In a series of stunning taped testimony, former White House officials said several Republican members of Congress - including Rep. Trump WH officials testify which GOP representatives asked for presidential pardons Adam Kinzinger responded to that by saying, “The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime.” When asked by the committee if Trump thought about pardons for his family members, McEntee said Trump had hinted at a blanket pardon “for all the staff and everyone involved” before he left office.
In a taped deposition, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office John McEntee said he witnessed Trump having conversations about the possibility of a “blanket pardon” for all those involved in Jan. Trump considered ‘blanket pardons’ for everyone involved in Jan. “We are going to show how Donald Trump tapped into the threat of violence, how he summoned a mob to Washington and how - after corruption and political pressure failed to keep Donald Trump in office - violence became the last option,” he said. 6 mob attack on the Capitol Trump’s “backup plan of stopping the transfer of power” if he couldn’t get away with a “political coup.” I can imagine no more dishonorable act by a president,” he said.Ĭhair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., closed by previewing the focus of hearings to come in July, calling the Jan. “In short, he was willing to sacrifice our republic to prolong this presidency. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Trump continuing to push the lie of a stolen election and pressure his officials to break the law was “about protecting his very real power and very real fragile ego - even if it required recklessly undermining our entire electoral system by wildly casting faceless doubt upon it.” 6 attack ‘backup plan’ in a ‘political coup’
Previewing next hearing, chair calls Jan. 6 committee focused on the pressure then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on the Justice Department to help overturn the 2020 election. (WASHINGTON) - Thursday’s hearing of the Jan.
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