Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who headed Congress’s special investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Tuesday that he has been in talks with the White House about presidential pardons.



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Thompson, chair of Jan. 6 committee, has talked with White House about pardons

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Rep. Bennie Thompson told CBS News, "When I hear someone about to be sworn into the presidency of the United States say he wants to lock you up for doing your job, I believe it."

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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who headed Congress’s special investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Tuesday that he has been in talks with the White House about presidential pardons. His comments confirmed a report, published hours earlier by Punchbowl News, that Thompson had at least one conversation in December with…

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President-elect Donald Trump has previously said that Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) should be jailed for his work on the now-defunct committee.

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Members of the Jan. 6 select committee are privately discussing presidential pardons with the White House days before the return of Donald Trump, who has publicly threatened vengeance against them and other political enemies.Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chaired that congressional panel, told Pun...

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"With President-elect Donald Trump set to take office in less than a week, members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and White House are privately discussing whether to issue presidential pardons to lawmakers who served on the panel," Punchbowl News reports."In an interview, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D

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Several top members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack are reportedly in talks with President Joe Biden about preemptive pardons before he leaves office on January 20.That's according to a Tuesday report from Punchbowl News, which noted that both committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was vice chair, are the most likely candidates for a pardon given their high-profile roles. Tho…

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'He’s going to inflict retribution': Jan. 6 committee members talking to Biden about pardons

Hoping to protect themselves from legal accountability from the incoming administration under President-elect Donald Trump, the now-defunct Jan. 6 House Select Committee's members are reportedly privately talking potential pardons with President Joe Biden in the final hours of his administration.

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A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack on the Judiciary

Donald Trump’s repeated promise to consider pardons for the January 6 attackers is rightly seen as a craven political move, one that would both satiate his base and bolster the lie that the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol was a peaceful protest, and that those who have been charged and convicted are political prisoners or even “hostages.” But the promise is something graver too: Blanket pardons for the January 6 rioters would be a severe ass…

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