Cheney: GOP Rep Sought Pardon After Capitol Riot

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), one of the leading figures in the effort to throw out Pennsylvania’s votes in the 2020 presidential election, was one of several members of Congress who contacted the White House seeking a pardon from Donald Trump in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the vice chair of the House committee investigating the attack said in its first public hearing Thursday.

Hours after the Capitol riot, as blood and broken windows marked the building, Perry urged Congress to throw out Pennsylvania’s nearly 7 million votes. In the weeks leading up to that day, he had played a major role behind the scenes in trying to turn Trump’s election lie into reality. But Cheney’s description of Perry and other lawmakers seeking pardons was not publicly known before Thursday night.

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