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Several Republicans including Scott Perry sought pardons from Trump after the Capitol riot, Liz Cheney says
Mia JankowiczJun 10, 2022, 4:15 AM
Several Republican members of Congress asked for a pardon from then-President Donald Trump after the Capitol riot, Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House January 6 committee said Thursday.
Cheney made the comments at the committee's first public hearing into the Capitol riot on Thursday night.
She called out Rep. Scott Perry in particular, saying: "Representative Perry contacted the White House in the weeks after January 6 to seek a presidential pardon."
"Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election," she added.
She neither offered evidence nor named the other lawmakers, saying that people watching the hearings "will see" how the requests unfolded in upcoming ones. . . .
. . . Perry's spokesperson, Jay Ostrich, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment but told The Hill that Cheney's claim was a "laughable, ludicrous, and a thoroughly soulless lie."
Perry has an antagonistic relationship with the January 6 investigation, signaling last year that he wouldn't cooperate with it. In May, the committee issued him a subpoena, which he rejected a few days later, CNN reported.
On Monday he maintained his longstanding objections to the hearings by calling them a "kangaroo court" on Twitter. . . .
. . . Cheney's claim set progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, speculating on who the other unnamed representatives may be.
She listed the last names of Reps. Andrew Clyde, Paul Gosar, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor-Greene, asking if they were among them. All are Trump congressional allies who have supported the false claims [editorial reporting] that the election was stolen from him.
Several Republicans including Scott Perry sought pardons from Trump after the Capitol riot, Liz Cheney says
Cheney, the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, said Perry was among "multiple" Republicans who turned to Trump after the insurrection.
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. . . Republican Rep. Scott Perry blasted any suggestion that he sought a pardon from President Donald Trump for himself or others, rejecting an eyebrow-raising claim that was made during the House January 6 committee's first major public hearing the day before.
"The notion that I ever sought a Presidential pardon for myself or other Members of Congress is an absolute, shameless, and soulless lie," Perry wrote on Twitter Friday.
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Commentary:
Liz Cheney vs. Republican Rep. Scott Perry
Even if true, this amazing revelation would be of dubious probative value vis-a-vis a consciousness of any constitutionally criminal wrongdoing on the part of persons like Perry. From the beginning, he and others justly opposed the legitimization of unconstitutionally derived results. Whether or not subsequent electoral shenanigans served to inflate the Empty Suit and Chief's actual support as to garner a win that wasn't his, judges and governors in key states usurped the constitutionally delegated powers of state legislatures to appoint the "Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections" (Article I, Section 4, Clause 1) and the manner in which presidential electors are chosen (Article II, Section 1). This is the real outrage, coupled with the Supreme Court's shameful failure to stop the subsequent whirlwind of corruption and confusion of November 4, 2020 from occurring in the first place.
If the allegation is true for some, they most certainly would have had every reason to anticipate the corrupt and vengeful antics of a Democratically controlled FBI, CIA, and Congress that incessantly tried to overturn the legitimate results of Trump's election for years, while busily trying to cover up and deflect the nation's attention away from Hilliary's electoral corruption and Biden's financial corruption.
If this allegation is true, why wasn't proof of it immediately given? What kind of piece of shit throws a politically sensationalized bomb with a delayed fuse at her own party's electoral aspirations? The political implications behind this allegation are no small matter, whether probative vis-a-vis real criminal guilt or not. Moreover, what kind of piece of shit equates the political actions of her fellow party members with criminal wrongdoing?
If the allegation is false or misleading, we will know just how big a piece of shit Cheney is.
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