hijacks the voice of we the people. is that something that you see actually happening? a convicted january 6th rioter who called for the execution of lawmakers in congress. that is the woman donald trump embraced yesterday. it s the latest example, but certainly not the only one, that we have of trump actively endorsing the violent mob that attacked the capital. this is, after all, the man who spent months teasing the fact that, if reelected, trump would consider blanket pardons for january 6th defendants. and last month trump recorded that bizarre song with the chorus of january six defendants who recorded their part of the track from jail. he then proceeded to play that track, as he stood on stage, hand on heart, in advance of his first major campaign rally in waco, texas. all of that is weird and terrifying on its own. but at this point it s not just trump, with the hugs and the singalongs from jan six sers,
over the gavel. but the truth is there s not a lot of evidence that any of them have been held to account the way they thought they should be in seeking pardons they thought they might have criminal exposure. talk about what mike pence might know or have to say about republican members of the house or senate in trying to overturn the election results? something he knew was illegal, he called dan quayle, consulted the judge. i do not know how much mike pence knows about what the specific members of congress were doing. i assume he must have picked up on some of that stuff in his time at the white house. he understood what was happening at different moments. that said we do know mo brooks wrote a letter, an email to the president, asking for these blanket pardons for all the
about what happened in the trump white house before, during, and after the january 6th capital attack. the january 6th house select committee released a new trove of deposition transcripts from key witnesses late yesterday, including former head of personnel at the white house, john mccentee. he told the house panel that former president donald trump wanted to issue blanket pardons for everyone who participated in the attack. saying, quote, the president floated the idea and pat cipollone said no, referring to former white house counsel, pat cipollone. mcentee continued, i remember the president saying, well, what if i pardoned the people that weren t violent, just walked into the building, and i think the counsel gave him some pushback on that. new transcripts reveal that former president trump also considered firing any member of his staff who did not believe that the election was stolen from him. cipollone mentioned a memo that stated, quote, anyone that
investigation. trump s chief of staff burnt documents in his fireplace. trump, considering blanket pardons for january 6th rioters and political allies. the treasury secretary, googling the 25th amendment, talking about removing the president after the attack on the capitol. this is all good knowledge of us to have assistance. the committee s work is making its way into critical cases around january 6th. just today, a federal judge cited the january 6th report for the first time in the case of a january 6th rioter. saying the trump may have been urging his supporters to break the law when he sent them to the capitol that day. it s a remarkable moment of transparency there for all of the investigative work out congress has done has been made available to the public. we expect more transcripts to be released in the coming days. but what does it mean for the
among the disturbing things that we ve learned from the investigation and the transcript, there are also gems like these. we learned what donald trump was trying to overturn elections, to cling to power through under cry he s also taking to micromanage when his press releases, to make sure that people knew that he was working really hard. here is a serious question about these charges. the january 6th committee releases these transcripts day by day, patch by batch of all of the interviews they have conducted. we re getting all of these new insights into the evidence that the committee collected and the investigation. trump s chief of staff burnt documents in his fireplace. trump, considering blanket pardons for january 6th rioters and political allies. the treasury secretary, googling the 25th amendment, talking about removing the president after the attack on the capitol. this is all good knowledge of us to have assistance.