Days after Jan. 6, 2021, Republican lawmakers who strategized with then-President Donald Trump asked top White House officials to help arrange for pardons, according to testimony released Thursday by the select panel investigating the Capitol attack.
Several top Trump White House aides at the time, including special assistant Cassidy Hutchinson and aide Johnny McEntee, described outreach from multiple members of Congress seeking clemency: Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
Additionally, according to the former Trump aides' testimony, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) sent an email on Jan. 11, 2021, asking for "all purpose" pardons for every lawmaker who objected to electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The flurry of pardon requests followed what the select committee showed was weeks of efforts by Trump's top defenders in the congressional GOP to spread misinformation about the results of the 2020 election — and to help apply pressure on the Justice Department to legitimize those false claims. None of the lawmakers ever received pardons.
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