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lindysalsagal

(20,547 posts)
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:55 AM Jun 2022

WAPO: 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 you’ve 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 Trump’s 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 Thursday’s 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 Trump’s 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
Recommended. H2O Man Jun 2022 #1
Might as well include dweller Jun 2022 #2
While I'd love to see my execrable local R Rep jailed HariSeldon Jun 2022 #5
I just fucking love the way this committee is presenting evidence like bread crumbs, Baitball Blogger Jun 2022 #3
I'm sure there are more. ...nt 2naSalit Jun 2022 #4

HariSeldon

(454 posts)
5. While I'd love to see my execrable local R Rep jailed
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 10:09 AM
Jun 2022

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

(46,657 posts)
3. I just fucking love the way this committee is presenting evidence like bread crumbs,
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 10:02 AM
Jun 2022

leading to the big reveal at the end: It wasn't just Trump. Republicans in Congress took part in this sedition attempt.

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