Trump on Saturday suggested pardoning people who stormed the Capitol. A new report suggests it’s an idea he’s been kicking around for a long, long time
Trump, two sources tell the publication, mused about whether he could issue broad legal immunity for people who engaged in a deadly storming of the Capitol in a bid to stop Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory from being certified.
The sources said that, like much of what Trump says, the pardon discussion was not aimed at making a plan so much as it was just general musing about whether it would be possible. But the idea of Jan. 6 pardons has lingered in the former president’s brain. At his rally last Saturday evening, Trump floated the idea of“If I run, and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly.
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