Trump privately proposes pardoning high-level allies for Jan. 6, Mar-a-Lago docs.
privately told confidants that, should he be re-elected president, he could pardon any of his allies if they face charges from the Biden-era Justice Department in two major probes, two people familiar with the matter tellSince last summer, the former president has been telling some of those close to him that the pardons would be for higher-level people and could come early in his time in office, effectively wiping away a multi-year effort to hold powerful people and their cohorts legally...
“This would be like hitting the delete-key on all of [the] DOJ’s work on these investigations — and be an opening shot in his next war on the ‘Deep State,’” says one of the sources, adding it would be part of Trump “cleaning house” at the start of his second term. “The idea was that he can just pardon everybody [if] he’s president again … That he can do it ‘fast’ and early on in his [new] term,” the source continues. “He was not talking about the [rioters and] prisoners, it was about people working on post-election activities and on the documents. All the different ‘witch hunts.’”
The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to relay private conversations. A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on this story. The Justice Department is conducting two main probes into Trump and his allies. The first is into the twice-impeached former president’s activities surrounding the 2020 election, in which he stoked doubts and spread lies about the results and fueled a “stop the steal” movement that culminated in the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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