Mo Brooks Asked for Trump to Pardon All 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election

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The Jan. 6 committee displayed a bombshell email on Thursday revealing that Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) emailed the White House five days after the attack on the Capitol asking for a pardon for himself and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), as well as “every Congressman and Senator who voted to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania.”

The blanket pardon would have preemptively exonerated the 147 Republicans who voted against the certification of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory in the event that wrongdoing was discovered in subsequent investigations.

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Rep. Brooks defended the request in a statement provided to Rolling Stone, citing a “concern Democrats would abuse the judicial system by prosecuting and jailing Republicans who acted pursuant to their Constitutional or statutory duties.” He added that pardon wasn’t necessary because “rational forces took over and no one was persecuted for performing their lawful duties.” Brooks included a picture of a printout of the email referenced by the Jan. 6 committee.

Testimony provided to the committee detailed discussions between Republican officials and the Trump administration in the final days of the presidency over the possibility of Trump issuing a blanket pardon to all those potentially involved in the Jan. 6 attack. In testimony to the committee, former Trump adviser Eric Herschmann described the scope of the pardon requested by Gaetz. “He mentioned Nixon, and I said ‘Nixon’s pardon was never nearly that broad,” Herschmann said.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/gop-rep-asked-trump-pardon-213754533.html

[Wednesdays]

1. The dam is breaking

[Cha]

5. It appears & I hope it Never

gets back together again.

💙💛

[Irish_Dem]

2. Cowards.

Not one of them willing to take the consequences of their actions.

[llmart]

3. So, is he admitting that all those who voted to not certify the election are criminals?

Because that's how I see it. Treason at it's finest. They all took an oath then immediately decided to ignore the terms of the oath.

Lock them all up!

[Takket]

4. can this be used in court?

To show that he had a knowledge that he done something illegal? Analogous to a person smashing their phone when the police serve them with a warrant for it.