- Former White House staff have identified six Republican lawmakers seeking a January 6 pardon.
- Liz Cheney said earlier that Republican Scott Perry was one of those seeking pardon.
- Other names included Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Louis Gomert and Marjorie Taylor Green.
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At least six Republican members of Congress have already been publicly identified as pressuring the White House under President Donald Trump to pardon them after the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021, former Trump aides revealed in testimony before the House of Representatives. a commission investigating the deadly uprising.
GOP representatives Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Matt Goetz of Florida, Louis Gomert of Texas, Margery Taylor Green of Georgia and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania asked Trump to pardon them for helping him cancel the 2020 election. said former White House staffers in a series of recorded statements presented Thursday on Capitol Hill.
Trump aides to White House John McCenty, Cassidy Hutchinson and Eric Hershman outlined how Republican House lawmakers – most of whom have already been summoned by the elected committee – sought legal cover from future prosecution in a montage of the election committee’s videos. January played during his fifth public hearing.
The list of identified members may also grow. Commission officials posted an image of an e-mail sent by Brooks to administration officials on “Apologies.”
Elected committee officials showed a Jan. 6 image of an alleged alleged allegation that Moe Brooks of Alabama had sent a letter of pardon to the MAGA MP president during the committee’s fifth public hearing on Thursday. June 23. Warren Rojas / Insider
In it, Brooks said he was writing on behalf of Gaetz, and called on Trump to “give a general (universal) pardon to the following groups of people: every congressman and senator who has voted to reject the Arizona and Pennsylvania Electoral College bids.”
Former Trump aides to the White House who testified before House investigators cited Biggs, Brooks, Goetz, Homer, Perry and Taylor Green as lawmakers who expressed interest in pardons. Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, also said Ohio spokesman Jim Jordan had discussed potential pardons, but never specifically asked for one.
Gaetz did not deny the allegations, writing on Twitter only that the elected commission was “an unconstitutional political side demonstration.”
Republicans in the House of Representatives nominated for clemency came close to the end of Thursday’s hearing after Jan. 6 co-chair Liz Cheney teased the revelation at the start of the session on Jan. 6.
“At the end of today’s hearing, we will see video testimonies of three members of Donald Trump’s White House staff. They will identify some members of Congress who contacted the White House after Jan. 6 to ask for a pardon from the president, “the Wyoming Republican said Thursday. introductory notes.
Cheney had already mentioned Perry’s name during the committee’s first hearing that investigators had found evidence of stranded members of Congress lobbying the conflicting former president to clear them of any wrongdoing before leaving office.
Perry, who was summoned by the commission to interact with former Justice Department official Jeff Clark, has denied the allegations.
“The idea that I once sought the president’s pardon for myself or for other members of Congress is an absolute, shameless and soulless lie,” Perry wrote on social media.
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