Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally, in Conroe, Texas, U.S., January 29, 2022. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A handful of Republicans pushed back against former President Donald Trump's weekend offer to consider pardoning people convicted of joining the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, saying it showed he would "do it all again" if he regains the White House in 2024.
"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," U.S. Representative Liz Cheney posted on Twitter on Monday. "He'd do it all again if given the chance."
Cheney is one of just two Republicans taking part in the U.S House of Representatives' official investigation of Jan. 6.
Cheney and a few other Republicans spoke out after a weekend in which former President Trump at a Saturday rally in Conroe, Texas, offered to consider pardoning people convicted of joining the attack if elected to a second term in 2024 and called for protests against prosecutors in New York and Georgia investigating him and his company.
He followed up Sunday evening with a statement repeating his false claims that his vice president, Mike Pence, "could have overturned the Election" that Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
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