New Details Emerge In Matt Gaetz’s Bid For Pardon

Talking Points Memo reports:

The Florida Republican has reportedly been under investigation for potentially trafficking a 17-year-old girl since late 2020. We knew Gaetz sought a presidential pardon from White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to sidestep the whole ordeal. Tuesday’s transcript adds new details from Johnny McEntee.

“He told me to ask Meadows for a pardon,” McEntee said. The former aide claims that he’d had dinner with the congressman — or rather, “I had dinner. He didn’t eat.” — either before or after January 6th. But when McEntee brought the issue of the pardon up to unidentified White House staffers, he was allegedly told “no, we’re not doing that.”

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New Details Of Gaetz’s Bid For Pardon Amid Trafficking Probe Revealed By Jan. 6 Committee Transcript https://t.co/uLoF96Fa1q

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