The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released 18 additional transcripts that provided more details about how former President Trump considered “blanket pardons” for those charged in connection with the Capitol riot.
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“Cipollone said no,” McEntee recalled. “One day when we walked into the Oval, I remember it was being discussed, and I remember the president saying, ‘Well, what if I pardoned the people that weren’t violent, that just walked in the building?’ And I think the White House counsel gave him some pushback.”McEntee recalled Cipollone also rejected Trump’s idea that all White House staff should be pardoned, even those who had played no role in the president’s push to overturn the 2020 election.
The Jan. 6 committee last week published its final 845-page report on the Capitol attack and the events that led to it, declaring that Trump’s relentless push to overturn the 2020 election was the central cause of the violence. Trump has slammed the Jan. 6 report, calling it “highly partisan.” She added: “There was a period where several White House staffers and administration officials wanted to pardon themselves prior to leaving, and he was one of them. I don’t remember him lobbying the president very hard for it, but I know that, if there were going to be staff pardons, he wanted to be included in that group.”According to Hutchinson’s testimony, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Scott Perry, R-Pa., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., all expressed interest in receiving pardons.
Hutchinson also testified that Trump had wanted to include language about pardoning rioters in a speech on Jan. 7, 2021, but that language was removed.
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