Schiff: Jan. 6 Panel Will Show Evidence Of GOPers’ Requests For Pardons

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who serves on the Jan. 6 Select Committee, on Sunday said the panel plans to show evidence that GOP members of Congress sought pardons from former President Trump in light of their involvement with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.


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I so want to see Scott Perry ejected from congress.

Get him! Get 'em all!

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Yep. Cranking up the pressure that much more:

“Flip now, you treasonous motherfuckers. Cut a deal before your co-conspirators throw you under the bus first.”

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Ah, I love smell of moral righteousness in the morning!

Go, Schiff, go!

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Cheney also suggested that the panel’s third public hearing scheduled for Wednesday will feature information about efforts by GOP lawmakers, including Perry, to secure a pardon for themselves after Jan. 6. Perry’s spokesperson Jay Ostrich denied Cheney’s allegation, telling reporters that the claim is a “laughable, ludicrous and a thoroughly soulless lie.”

I’m getting fed up with being lied to.

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I wonder what the spin is going to be?

I’m thinking something along the lines of, “It was a matter of self-defense! I knew that the paedo-Communists in Congress (and their lapdog media) were going to attempt to frame me, so I had no choice but to ask for a pardon!”

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We know what Ostriches do.

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“laughable, ludicrous and a thoroughly soulless lie.”

In other words, completely true.

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From the article:

[“Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who serves on the Jan. 6 Select Committee, on Sunday said the panel plans to show evidence that GOP members of Congress sought pardons from former President Trump in light of their involvement with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.”]

(emphasis added)

Schiff has legal chops.

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Now ‘this’ is going to be Must See TV.

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I’m able to watch tomorrow’s hearing live, but I am working on both Wednesday and Thursday…so I’m depending on all my TPM friends to keep me up to speed until I can catch the highlights later in the evening.

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Don’t stress it. Pelosi’s request for a pardon isn’t until the Wednesday hearing and we’ll keep you up to date.

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I guess we’ll find out who really is soulless.

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But wouldn’t we ALL like to be pardoned for whatever indiscretions we might have committed? I mean, asking for a pardon is not necessarily an admission of wrongdoing.

And I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I might–might–be willing to sell you.

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They don’t in real life, but the metaphor is apt. :smile:

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I was a twenty-something kid in the Watergate Era. I saw everything…either through people I knew or me, myself and I.

The so-called disadvantage of daytime airing of the J6 in this Information Age is a joke.

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Then I guess you know exactly how Scott Perry feels!

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The messages will get out no problem… Hell, I barely remember a time when it mattered when a thing ran. I remember my acting-fascinated girlfriend at the time and I making a point of being at home on Fridays in time for “Homicide: Life on the Street,” but that was almost 30 years ago.

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Can you describe a bit of his asshole-iness?
I’m feeling lazy and don’t want to do my own research.

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Shouldn’t that be busses?

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