Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that the public deserves to know which members of Congress have sought pardons for their involvement in the Capitol attack.
her Republican colleagues should divulge whether or not they’ve requested a presidential pardon for their involvement in planning or executing the attack.
“When you don’t know which of your colleagues were part of a potential conspiracy, then we need to find out” whether they were, Ocasio-Cortez said, pointing to Rep. Lauren Boebert’s about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s whereabouts during the attack and Boebert’s “provocative” statement that “[t]oday is 1776.”
“Frankly, from a lot of behavior that we have seen both in committee [and] inside the workings of the House, I believe that every member of Congress should be able to answer this question,” Ocasio-Cortez went on, adding that she is “more than willing to offer that [I] did not seek a pardon from the White House either before or after January 6 or, frankly, at any point in time. And I believe that it’s a very simple question.
The progressive lawmaker reiterated the point on Monday, calling for her colleagues to reveal whether or not they have ever sought a pardon while in office. “[E]very person in this country deserves to know if their elected official believed enough that they were committing a crime to seek one,”
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