Various Republican members of Congress requested pardons from President Donald Trump in the final days of his administration, according to recorded testimony from former Trump White House aides presented by the Jan. 6 committee.
Five days after the attack on the Capitol, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., sent an email with the subject line “Pardons” to the White House requesting a pardon for Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., himself, and “every congressman or senator who voted to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania.”
In an interview recorded and shown during the hearing, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to the White House chief of staff, said that Brooks and Gaetz advocated for blanket pardons for House members who were involved in a Dec. 21 meeting.
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