A string of Republican members of Congress – including Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert and Scott Perry – asked the White House for pre-emptive pardons after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to testimony at a congressional hearing on Thursday.
Their names emerged at the end of a fifth day of public hearings held by the House committee investigating the violence.
It focused on how then President Donald Trump tried to pressure top Justice Department officials…
