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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAPO: The Congress Pardon-wankers short list:
Jan. 6 panel names five Republicans who allegedly sought Trump pardons
The only reason I know to ask for a pardon, because you think youve committed a crime, said committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.)
By Devlin Barrett
Updated June 23, 2022 at 9:53 p.m. EDT|Published June 23, 2022 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
After gripping testimony from former Justice Department officials describing Donald Trumps efforts to undo the 2020 election results, House lawmakers on Thursday identified five Republican lawmakers who allegedly sought pardons suggesting not just their own fear of criminal exposure, but a belief that the outgoing president would preemptively protect them from the investigations that followed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress.
Videotaped testimony presented at the end of Thursdays hearing named Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Mo Brooks (Ala.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (Tex.) and Scott Perry (Pa.) as the lawmakers who sought preemptive pardons after or, in at least one case, before the Capitol breach. They were among the most active and outspoken supporters in Congress of Trumps false claims of election fraud.
The allegations of pardon-hunting came from Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and from John McEntee, a close aide to Trump. Such testimony strikes at one of the most fraught issues to emerge out of the Jan. 6 attack the suspicion rife in many quarters of Congress that some of its members may have participated in criminal conspiracies to thwart the valid results of a presidential election.
Gohmert said Thursday that he had sought pardons for other deserving individuals but not for himself. I had and have nothing for which to seek a pardon, he said in a statement Friday.
Personally, I think "Perry and Gohmert and Mo Brooks and Gaetz" sounds alot like "Halderman, Ehrlichman, Mithcell and Dean."
So, here you go, according to WAPO: It's the Coup Hit Parade:
Gaetz Brooks Biggs Gohmert Perry
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WAPO: The Congress Pardon-wankers short list: (Original Post)
lindysalsagal
Jun 2022
OP
I just fucking love the way this committee is presenting evidence like bread crumbs,
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2022
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H2O Man
(73,567 posts)1. Recommended.
The names have changed, but the criminal behaviors are the same.
dweller
(23,645 posts)2. Might as well include
The 147 hand midden
LOCK THEM ALL UP !!
✌🏻
HariSeldon
(455 posts)5. While I'd love to see my execrable local R Rep jailed
I hope someone will put together the ad campaign: "Is she a traitor...or just gullible enough to be fooled by the traitors?"
Baitball Blogger
(46,744 posts)3. I just fucking love the way this committee is presenting evidence like bread crumbs,
leading to the big reveal at the end: It wasn't just Trump. Republicans in Congress took part in this sedition attempt.
2naSalit
(86,659 posts)4. I'm sure there are more. ...nt