pardoned, trump asked, according to that advisor. he said, some people think i should pardon them. he thought if he could do it, these people would never have to testify or be deposed. ultimately, he decided against issuing pardons. but now he keeps floating the idea again and again, if he gets back into office. if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons we will give them pardons. because they are being treated so unfairly. these people are being treated horribly. i would absolutely because some were being treated very unfairly i would absolutely give them a pardon. by the punishments are that is already raising charges of witness tampering from at least one member of the january 6th committee, congressman pete aguilar, who joins me now.
was considering blanket pardons for january 6th riots rioters. according to politico, between january six and joe biden s inauguration, trump made calls to discuss the idea. do you think i should pardon them? you think it s a good idea? do you think i have the power to do it? that is according to the source. another adviser told politico about how participants in the right might be charged criminally and how a uniform pardon might be is it everybody that had a trump sign or everybody who walked into the capital who could be pardoned, trump asked, according to that advisor. he said, some people think i should pardon them. he thought if he could do it, these people would never have to testify or be deposed. ultimately, he decided against issuing pardons. but now he keeps floating the idea again and again, if he gets back into office. if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons we
first, let s get to the the essential argument here. i heard this from a lot of service members as well in the wake of this story over the weekend. you have done your service on the ground. you say in this op-ed and i m quoting here, soldiers take most serious ly the things their leadership makes most serious. by issuing pardons, is the president making it less serious when u.s. soldiers break the law, break u.s. military law and kill civilians. soldiers do what the leadership tells them or signals to them is most important to them. and i think it s clear in this case you have the president who also functions as the commander-in-chief sending a message that he disagrees with
special prosecutor investigation of his administration. richard nixon discussed the possibility of pardoning his white house chief of staff bob alderman who ended up doing 18 months in federal prison, and carl bernstein s book on nixon s final days captured the whispered backstage drama about the possibility of pardons at the white house. a subject richard nixon would not dare discuss publicly. the president s senior advisers including his new chief of staff alexander hague and the lawyer with the best political sense in the nixon white house, were adamantly opposed to the president issuing pardons for anyone including his former chief of staff bob halderman. the president s criminal defense lawyer was a litigator who had no experience in politics and at one point according to woodward and bernstein he said at one point maybe a pardon should be
richard nixon thought about issuing pardons to obstruct the special prosecutor investigation of his administration. richard nixon discussed the possibility of pardoning his white house chief of staff bob alderman who ended up doing 18 months in federal prison, and carl bernstein s book on nixon s final days captured the whispered backstage drama about the possibility of pardons at the white house. a subject richard nixon would not dare discuss publicly. the president s senior advisers including his new chief of staff alexander hague and the lawyer with the best political sense in the nixon white house, were adamantly opposed to the president issuing pardons for anyone including his former chief of staff bob halderman. the president s criminal defense lawyer was a litigator who had no experience in politics and at one point according to woodward