The. Daily Beast reported last night that our congressman, Matt Gaetz, requested a presidential pardon “from the beginning of time up until today, for any and all things,” according to videotaped testimony from Eri Herschmann, a Trump White House attorney.
In another attestation, Cassidy Hutchinson, an ex-aide to the White House chief of staff, said Gaetz had been seeking a pardon since “early December” 2020, though she was unsure why.
Gaetz, along with Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), pushed for pardons to be given to Republican lawmakers who had been involved with a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting in which overturning the election was discussed.
After the hearing, Gaetz defended himself with a tweet: “The January 6 Committee is an unconstitutional political sideshow. It is rapidly losing the interest of the American people and now resorts to siccing federal law enforcement on political opponents.”
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