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From The Hill: Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sharply criticized President Trump for issuing a sweeping pardon to nearly all defendants charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Schiff, a former member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, called the move a “grotesque display” of power in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”
“It’s obscene. It’s a grotesque display of his new power as President to pardon these 15- or 1600 people, which I have to imagine includes people that committed violent assaults on law enforcement.
“It really is a terrible way to begin, but not a surprising way to begin the new administration,” he added.
The report notes that Trump issued the pardons for the January 6 defendants just hours after Joe Biden had issued preemptive pardons for members and staff of the House Jan. 6 select committee, including Schiff himself.
Therefore, Schiff was complaining about Trump’s pardons, when he had just been pardoned himself earlier on the same day by Joe Biden.
Adam Schiff, who received a “Pre-emptive Pardon” hours before inauguration for his role in orchestrating the January 6th “attack,” calls Enrique Tarrio a “white nationalist”. Hilarious.
Under SCOTUS ruling in Burdick v. United States, the opinion held that accepting a pardon is… pic.twitter.com/1i0n7NAUng
— CannCon (@CannConActual) January 21, 2025
Here’s what Schiff said about preemptive pardons in 2020.
December, 2020. Joy Reid: Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who is an innocent person?
Adam Schiff: No.
Today Adam Schiff got a preemptive pardon. pic.twitter.com/s83ghqk0rs
— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 20, 2025
FLASHBACK VIDEO. Remember when Adam Schiff said this?
“The precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think, is a precedent we don’t want to set.” pic.twitter.com/qWuwaJ75vR
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 20, 2025
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