Trump flags fly as rioters take over the steps of the Capitol on the East Front on January 6, 2021, as the Congress works to certify the electoral college votes.Newly released transcripts from the House select January 6 committee reveal that former President Donald Trump sought to issue a blanket pardon for a number of controversial figures who attempted to overthrow the 2020 election, including hundreds of his loyalists who participated in the violent breach of the U.S.
described in a deposition how Trump proposed a “blanket pardon”“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?’”The matter was eventually dismissed.