Partisan Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MI) has met with White House Counsel and is “open” to a pre-emptive pardon from President Joe Biden, Punchbowl News said in an interview Monday. told.
Receiving a pre-emptive pardon would be an admission of guilt, but some Democrats argue that the pre-emptive pardon is only intended to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from cleaning up Washington.
Mr. Thompson is on a list of names that some Democrats believe should receive a preemptive pardon. Others include his friends mark milley christopher ray, Department of Justice attorney, joe biden oneself, whole Biden family, liz cheney, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosiand Adam Kinzingeramong others.
“Mr. Biden could pardon them if he wanted to,” Trump told NBC News' Kristen Welker in December. “And maybe he should.”
Thompson appears to have taken Trump's words to heart.
“I believe Donald Trump when he says he's going to retaliate against this,” Thompson said. “When he says my name and Liz Cheney and other people's names, I believe. I believe him.”
“A lot of people said, if this guy [Trump] He said he would do it, believe me,” Thompson added. “If the president were to offer a pardon based on the commission's work, Bennie Thompson would accept it.”
Punchbowl News reported on Thompson's interview as follows:
Latest news: with the next president donald trump Members of special committee scheduled to take office within a week on January 6th Lawmakers and officials say the president and the White House are privately discussing whether to grant presidential pardons to members of Congress who served on the committee.
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Just last week, Biden has said he is considering preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President Trump. However, communications between the White House and some committee members regarding this matter have not previously been reported. None of the members who served on the committee have asked Biden for a pardon, but others have heard that they are lobbying the White House to grant one.
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Added by Thompson He wants to see the newly released report from the former special prosecutor. Jack Smith. Smith argued that if Trump had not won the presidential election, he would have been convicted of federal criminal charges for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election to maintain power.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of The Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
