Jan 6 hearings – live: Filmmaker describes mystery Trump-Putin call as GOP pardon request email revealed
After it emerged at yesterday’s 6 January hearing that several GOP members of Congress sought pardons from Donald Trump after the 6 January riot – with names including Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene – Alabama congressman Mo Brooks has released an email he sent to a Trump aide demanding pardons for a wide swathe of his party.
In the message, dated 11 January 2021, Mr Brooks says he anticipates a legal assault from “deep-pocketed and vitriolic Socialist Democrats” angry at his and other Republicans’ efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.