• Donald Trump sought pardons from the White House after supporting his efforts to reverse his 2020 election defeat.
• The hearings centred on how the then-president exerted daily pressure on senior Justice Department employees
• Trump sought to replace Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark

The U.S. House of Representatives investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol heard testimony from witnesses that at least five congressional Republican allies of Donald Trump sought pardons from the White House after supporting his efforts to reverse his 2020 election defeat.

At the conclusion of the fifth day of proceedings, their names were revealed. The hearings centered on how the then-president exerted daily pressure on senior Justice Department employees to assist him in illegally retaining power during his final weeks in office.

Trump sought to replace Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department environmental lawyer and ardent supporter of Trump’s phoney assertions that his defeat was the result of widespread fraud,

Only when the majority of the other Justice Department leadership threatened to quit collectively if Trump went through with it was that action stopped.

“The president had no interest in genuinely looking into the facts. He merely desired that the Department of Justice confirm the lies “Republican committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger stated during the hearing on Thursday.

The committee received testimony from Rosen, Richard Donoghue, who was serving as acting attorney general at the time, and Steven Engel, a former assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. In addition, the committee watched video testimony from several Trump White House employees.

The Republican representatives Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, and Scott Perry were all seen on camera asking President Trump for pardons, which might have shielded them from prosecution for whatever actions they may have taken prior to or during the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol.

According to Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Republican Representative Jim Jordan, a vocal supporter of Trump, questioned the White House about pardons but never requested one for himself.

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