really was. from this latest discovery we have one johnny mcentee to thank, trump s director of personnel by the end. we now now mcentee s testimony before the committee revealed that the twice-impeached disgraced ex-president in his final hours in office floated the idea of a blanket pardon for the breach of the united states capitol. there was a vice of dissent to that idea, white house counsel pat cipollone. he rejected the idea. our friend luke broad water of the new york times reports this, quote, mcentee recalled cipollone also rejected trump s idea that all white house staff should be pardoned, even those who have played no role in the president s push to overturn the 2020 election. quote, i remember cipollone questioning on that, well, why does anyone need a pardon, mr. mcentee recalled, adding that the president had responded, well, just so they can t go after them for any little thing. and i think cipollone said, yeah, but no one here has done anything wrong. the
the matter. i mean, this sort of pigs at the trough of the pardons is a known story, but the conduit of being mark meadows feels like it is really cemented both through cassidy hutchinson s televised testimony and the snippets that were shown in the depp pose, but it really comes through in these transcripts the depth to which she reveals everything she saw mark meadows doing that by the end she realized was wrong and perhaps illegal. right. you know, mark meadows, aside from rudy giuliani and donald trump himself, is one of the probably three or four most important people in the effort to overturn the 2020 election because he was there doing trump s bidding, whether it was with trying to influence state lawmakers, taking trips down to georgia, trying to influence people down there to overturn the election, whether