[BREAKING] Here Are the MAGA Members of Congress Who Asked For Presidential Pardons
They literally saved the best for last at Thursday’s January 6th Select Committee hearing.
After weeks of speculation about which members of Congress would be identified as co-conspirators with Donald Trump in the January 6th plot to prevent the certification of the 2020 Presidential election, America heard the names in a laundry list of lawlessness.
Mo Brooks (R-AL) wrote a letter to White House staffers seeking blanket pre-emptive Presidential pardons from Trump before he left office for himself and his fellow “Freedom Caucus” members Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA).
“Mr. Gaetz was personally pushing for a pardon and he was doing so since early December. I’m not sure why” pic.twitter.com/TGcyGVC7Mn
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 23, 2022
Their asks were confirmed by former White House Staffer Cassidy Hutchison, who worked as an assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump’s former Chief of Staff.
VIDEO: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, Andy Biggs, and Scott Perry all asked for White House pardons.
Gaetz wanted a blanket pardon "from the beginning of time, up until today, for any and all things." pic.twitter.com/A6fVatQBlh
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 23, 2022
The Select Committee played videotaped excerpts from depositions of former Trump White House staffers, who described the Republican members’ efforts to obtain clemency after Trump’s scheme brought about the worst attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812.
White House officials testified that Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Gohmert, and Perry wanted pardons, and Jordan and Greene were curious about them as well. pic.twitter.com/qzRpwCbVaB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 23, 2022
Three former members of the DOJ under Trump gave testimony that only confirmed what others before them had told the Committee: Trump knew he had lost but still tried to bend the government to his will to keep himself in office.
Donoghue to Trump on Trump's plan to put the unqualified and incompetent Jeffrey Clark in charge of DOJ: “It’s impossible, it’s absurd, it’s not going to happen and it’s going to fail.” pic.twitter.com/bO5xwUDqnd
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 23, 2022
Reactions to the hearings were still pouring in at press time.
The idea there were BLANKET pardons under discussion is not what happens in a functioning democracy.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 23, 2022
Breaking:
Mo Brooks asked for a pardon.
Matt Gaetz asked for a pardon.
Andy Biggs asked for a pardon.
Louie Gohmert asked for a pardon.
Scott Perry asked for a pardon.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 23, 2022
Rep. Mo Brooks, who is now retiring after his loss to the Trump-endorsed Katie Britt, has agreed to appear before the January 6th House Select Committee once it resumes its hearings, “if the terms are right.”
[This is a breaking and developing story, please check back for updates]