Reports saying that former Jan. 6 House select committee members are asking outgoing President Joe Biden for preemptive pardons indicates they have good reason to be concerned, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., told Newsmax on Thursday.
Comer joined “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE” to discuss a Tuesday report that former Jan. 6 Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is among leading panel members fearing accountability from President-elect Donald Trump, who has been talking about criminal destruction of evidence and witness tampering by committee members.
“Well, it looks like they weren’t truthful. That should surprise no one,” Comer said. “Anything that [Democrat Rep.] Jamie Raskin has a part of is always going to be filled with fiction. And, you know, obviously they’re going to Joe Biden asking for a pardon. If they didn’t feel they had some type of guilt or liability, they wouldn’t be going to Joe Biden asking for a pardon.”
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