Jan. 6 transcripts shed new light on how Trump considered blanket pardons.
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released on Tuesday 18 additional transcripts that provided more details about how former President Donald Trump considered “blanket pardons” for those charged in connection with the Capitol riot, and how several of his top political allies pushed unsuccessfully to be included in such pardons.
“I remember Cipollone questioning on that, ‘Well, why does anyone need a pardon?’” McEntee recalled, adding that the president had responded, “‘Well, just so they can’t go after them for any little thing.’ And I think Cipollone said, ‘Yeah, but no one here has done anything wrong.’” In his testimony, McEntee recalled that Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., told him he had sought a pardon through Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff. McEntee told the committee he believed Gaetz was concerned about a federal sex trafficking investigation. Gaetz has denied wrongdoing in the matter.
In the newly released transcripts, Hutchinson recalled Greene explaining how many of her supporters, who subscribe to QAnon conspiracy theories, came to Washington for the rally on Jan. 6 that preceded the violence. “I had seen one version where the pardon language was included in it, and then the next version had it taken out,” she recalled. “I understood, from White House Counsel’s Office coming into our office that morning, that they didn’t think it was a good idea to include that in the speech.”
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