{"id":266,"date":"2025-01-20T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2025-01-20T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:57:31","slug":"former-j6-committee-co-chair-says-hed-take-biden-preemptive-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Former J6 Committee Co-Chair Says He\u2019d Take Biden Preemptive Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told CNN on Thursday that he would accept a preemptive pardon from President Joe Biden to protect members of the January 6 House Select Committee from potential political retribution.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who chaired the eight-member Democrat-influenced committee investigating President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots, insisted that neither he nor the other committee members had done anything improper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">n light of Trump\u2019s recent remarks suggesting that committee members belong behind bars, CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta asked Thompson if he would accept a pardon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told CNN on Thursday that he would accept a preemptive pardon from President Joe Biden to protect members of the January 6 House Select Committee from potential political retribution. Thompson,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}