During an appearance on the late show with Steven Colbert this week, democratic representative
Alexandria, Ocasio-Cortez said that the Republican members of Congress who tried to get presidential
pardons should in fact be expelled from Congress.
And the reason that she says this is because seeking a pardon is essentially an admission
of a crime.
So what she calls for first at the bare minimum is that obviously this needs to be investigated.
And if they're seeking pardons, it's likely that they knew they had committed some kind
of criminal activity, especially Matt gates who wanted a pardon, that would basically
cover everything he has ever done since the day that he was born.
You know, not just related to January 6th, he wanted his to go back a little further.
I wonder why Matt gates, of course, you know, would say, Hey, could we maybe push that back
a couple of years?
You know, there's a couple of things happening that, uh, may need a pardon for.
So yeah, I definitely think that war and sin investigation, and of course, AOC actually
has the Supreme court, at least the Supreme court of the past on her side, the Supreme
court ruled many, many years ago that the acceptance of a presidential pardon was tantamount
to an admission of guilt.
And therefore, by the way, if you accept a presidential, pardon, you are admitting you
committed a crime, which means you are no longer protected under the fifth amendment
of the constitution, right?
You no longer have that right to not, uh, um, self incriminate because you've already
admitted you did it by accepting the pardon.
So seeking a pardon.
I know it's not the same as accept, accepting one, but seeking one would indicate consciousness
of guilt with these Republicans.
And of course you got Matt gates, Mo Brooks, Louis go, Andy, big Scott Perry, Marjorie
Taylor green.
Uh, those are the ones of course that we know about right now, in addition to allegedly
Rudy Giuliani, uh, John Eastman, who said, uh, if, if the list is still a thing, I think
I should be on that list for the pardons.
You've got a lot of people, but of course it is the Republican members of Congress that
are the most problematic.
What were these lawmakers doing aside from Matt gates?
We know what he was doing, or we know what he was alleged to have been doing.
My mistake.
He is alleged to have been doing those things, but these other lawmakers, we know for a fact,
Scott Perry was involved in trying to overturn the results of the election.
He was, you know, in communication with some states trying to get the fake elector scheme
going same thing, by the way, with Ron Johnson, based on what we know so far, Johnson's story,
of course repeatedly has changed.
He keeps saying, no, no, no, it was this, oh wait, no, no, no.
It was actually this.
So Johnson probably needs to be thrown into that lot as well, even though he is not on
the pardon list, Mo Brooks of course spoke at the stop, the steel rally wearing body
armor.
Uh, it's also been alleged
That members of his staff were actually working with the stop, the steel rally staff to help
get the whole thing set up and running.
So there's that, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered from these lawmakers.
Brooks of course has offered, uh, you know, after being subpoenaed, he says he is willing
to sit down with the committee.
He's got some conditions that need to be met.
And even though they're under no obligation to meet them, I do think they should.
I think they should have him come in and talk.
But ultimately I agree with AOC.
I think these people need to be expelled.
I think their behavior after the 2020 election alone is grounds for that.
If you cannot respect the institutions in this country that we use to pick new leaders,
then you shouldn't be allowed to be a leader.