The Wyoming Republican spoke to NBC News about the former president's remarks over the weekend, including his pledge to pardon insurrectionists.
Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday that Donald Trump’s dangerous comments at a Saturday rally show that the former president would incite another riot like the one on Jan. 6, 2021.that some of Trump’s followers who tried to overturn the 2020 election by violently storming the U.S. Capitol “have been charged with things like seditious conspiracy.”“He uses the same language that he knows caused the Jan.
If “these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have, in this country, the biggest protests we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt,” he told his audience. In between his repeated lies that the 2020 election was fraudulent, Trump also said he would offer pardons to his followers who were charged for crimes in the insurrection he incited.“If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly,” he said. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham says former President Trump's call to pardon 1/6 insurrectionists is"inappropriate."
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