Two GOP congressmen sought pardons for their connection to Capitol attack: report
Source: salon
Trump, still facing trial in the Senate, turned down House superfans' requests after meeting with legal advisers
By Roger Sollenberger January 20, 2021 11:22PM (UTC)
Arizona Republican Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs reportedly asked former President Donald Trump for pardons relating to their involvement in the events leading up to the Jan. 6 terrorist attack on the Capitol. He turned them down.
On Tuesday, CNN reported that the two Arizonans were among a number of GOP lawmakers who sought clemency in Trump's final days in connection to the rally in front of the White House that flowed into the deadly riot. The former president, who still faces an impeachment trial in the Senate for his own role in the insurrection, reportedly declined to grant the requests after a lengthy meeting with legal advisers over the weekend.
The concerns went beyond the elected officials who had promoted or attended the rally including Gosar, Biggs and Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama and extended to conservatives who had helped organize and raise money for the event, CNN reported, including Trump's oldest adult son Donald Trump Jr. and his significant other Kimberly Guilfoyle, both of whom addressed the crowd.
Trump issued 143 pardons in a late-night blitz on Tuesday, but the Arizona congressmen were not among them, and neither were any of the outgoing president's family members. Ultimately, Trump did not pardon anyone associated with the rally or siege, likely because the Constitution limits the pardon power in cases related to impeachment. (After the attack, Trump had told the violent mob in a video statement, "We love you. You're very special." .......................
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2021/01/20/two-gop-congressmen-sought-pardons-for-their-connection-to-capitol-attack-report/
I hope they are shaking in their boots.
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Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)
Fullduplexxx
(7,868 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)WVreaper
(622 posts)That is conceding guilt.
Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)#staytuned
stillcool
(32,626 posts)so if he pardoned them, and then was found guilty of the same thing he pardoned them for, the pardons wouldn't matter? Or is pardoning them acknowledging his own crime.
marble falls
(57,172 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)or did that expire with the Presidency? I think Rudy's lawyering days are over, but hopefully his defendant days are about to begin.
Cirque du So-What
(25,971 posts)gets me emotionally turgid.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)By all means - proceed.
LudwigPastorius
(9,167 posts)orangecrush
(19,616 posts)AZ8theist
(5,488 posts)I call every day asking when he plans to resign because he committed treasonous sedition.
Not holding breath waiting for an answer.