comcast business. powering possibilities.™ steve bannon is back in the news for an alleged grift he, thanks to a pardon, is going to get away with. you may remember in 2020, steve bannon was arrested on a yacht off the coast of connecticut by federal agents for his role in defrauding thousands of trump supporters and donors to the we build the wall online campaign. it was, of course, raising money to build a southern border wall because donald trump never
wow. reported yesterday mccarthy said he d tell donald trump to resign for inciting the january 6 insurrection on that very same call. mccarthy denied the reporting yesterday calling it totally false and wrong. the calls are tape. released here on msnbc and rachel maddow s show last night. it gets to the heart of why mccarthy isn t just a liar or hypocrite and gaming all a host of ways to end donald trump s dangerous presidency. the 27th amendment or a pardon for trump by vice president pence who would be president and not discussed unless you as mccarthy thinks donald trump will leave maybe facing criminal exposure?
voluntary. they have shown they won t talk about this stuff voluntarily. so i think that is the law enforcement mechanism available to the congressional committee to get this. it should be used. it doesn t mean that the rest of the work can t go on while that court battle is proceeding but looks like mccarthy is afraid to tell the truth. the last thing about the pardon is the school of thought that trump wrote a pardon to himself and put it in the pocket. can a president pardon himself? obviously what mccarthy s talking about is the nixon deal in which the president resigns. the vice president pardons. but there s still a possibility floating out there and donald trump is foolish enough and unconstitutional enough to try something like that.
trump only used the pardon to pardon political allies by and large for committing crimes! steve bannon pardoned for the felonies. the whole idea that mccarthy didn t want to talk on january 10 or 11 not a pence pardon. assuming that trump would be gone and pence would have to deal with a pardon for the ex-president. it is corroborated by reporting by jackie s colleagues. the white house counsel s office sat there expecting that donald trump would be charged with crimes. complicity and participation and i think it s why there s a bursting exasperation that they continue to glide bo the rule of law. you used the phrase that
fear. i don t want to get into conversations about vice president pence pardoning. that captures why the committee wants to speak to mccarthy because he was legitimately worried that trump would leave getting a pardon for criminal acts and almost insinuates that that the former president committed criminal act there is. so i think the timing of the tape is bad timing for a number of reasons and reinforces why the committee wants to talk to people like mccarthy, jim jordan and those showing act faces than they were in the days after the january 6, 2021, insurrection. it does more than insinuate. looking at the trump pardons. putting the history of presidential pardons aside.