Kinzinger confirms that several Republicans asked Trump for a pardon after failing to annul the elections

MADRID, 13 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans who is part of the special committee of the House of Representatives that investigates the assault on the Capitol, has confirmed the existence of evidence that several congressmen and members of his party sought a presidential pardon after growing to annul the results of the elections in which the now president, Joe Biden, prevailed.

"We are not going to accuse or say things without evidence to back them up," Kinzinger said in an interview with CBS in relation to a question about the claims of his fellow party member and committee vice chair, Liz Cheney, about the attempts of the Republicans for avoiding the legal consequences of their actions during those turbulent days for American democracy.

Just as Cheney did not do last week, Kinzinger has also avoided giving an exact number of those party colleagues who requested the pardon of the then head of the White House, Donald Trump, but has wondered the reasons why they demanded this perk. presidential.

"Why would you ask for a pardon? If someone asks for it, it is because they have a real concern that they may have done something illegal," said Kinzinger, who has anticipated that the committee's second public hearing scheduled for Wednesday will address the previous administration's attempts to overturn the results of those elections using the Department of Justice.

"The president absolutely tried to overthrow the will of the people, and he tried to do it initially through false information, through the Justice Department, putting pressure on the vice president, and then on January 6," the representative has said for Illinois.

Thus, he has lamented that Trump's closest circle, knowing that there was no electoral fraud, did not do enough to stop his attempts to torpedo those elections. "He knew it, but he didn't want to lose," he said.

"People that he trusted, that he respected, people around him, told him repeatedly that the election was not rigged, that there was no corroborating evidence of any kind of theft. I think it's pretty obvious that he knew, but he didn't want to lose." , he has stated.

In this sense, Kinzinger has advanced that in the event of a hypothetical victory of former President Trump in the next elections, he has "zero doubts" that he will try to place his allies in all the offices of the Federal Government, thus throwing to the ground "the oath to USA".

"If we have people in power, whether in politics, in law enforcement or in the Armed Forces (...) who are not willing to put their oath above loyalty to a person, no law matters" , has pointed out.

Last Thursday, the first public hearing of the special committee in charge of purging responsibilities for what happened that January 5 around the Capitol was held. Cheney mentioned that "multiple" congressmen asked for a presidential pardon after unsuccessfully trying to overturn the election results, including Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry.

According to the investigation, Perry, who has described these accusations as an "absolute, shameless and heartless lie", would have been one of the key allies of Trump who made possible the appointment as attorney general of Jeffrey Clark, who during his time in office as interim was in charge of propagating the conspiracy theories of former President Trump.