Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., on Monday warned that former President Donald Trump’s suggestion at a weekend rally that he might pardon those who have been convicted of crimes related to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol shows he would “do it all again.”
“Trump uses language he knows caused the Jan 6 violence; suggests he’d pardon the Jan 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy; threatens prosecutors; and admits he was attempting to overturn the election,” Cheney tweeted. “He’d do it all again if given the chance.”
At a rally in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday, Trump said he would consider pardoning people convicted of joining the attack if he is elected to a second term in 2024.
“If I run and I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” Trump told the crowd. “We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly.”
More than 700 people have been charged by the Justice Department with crimes related to Jan. 6, when a violent mob of Trump supporters, fueled by his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stormed the Capitol as Congress was in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory. The attack left multiple people dead and more than 140 police officers injured.
The former president railed against the House select committee investigating the Capitol assault. Cheney is one of two Republicans on the bipartisan panel.
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