Flashback… Adam Kinzinger: The Only Reason To Ask For A Pardon Is You Think You've Committed A Crime

Posted • December 16, 2024: A Democrat congressman, who served on the January 6 committee, is saying he will take a pardon from President Joe Biden if it is offered. Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi says his fellow members on the committee should take pardons as well. Bennie Thompson says if Biden offers he and other J6 Committee members a pardon, they should take it: "If the president in his infinite wisdom determined that the work of our committee was legitimate and that we should not be penalized for doing what we as members of the Congress should do, and he offers that pardon, I will take it." - "So, from Bennie Thompson's perspective, and I hope the other members of the committee, if President Biden offers it, take it." Bennie wants that pardon. Badly. -- President Joe Biden is abusing his pardon powers and using them in ways they were not designed.

These pardons send a dangerous precedent—they incentivize people to do unethical things to harm political opponents, or advance themselves or line their pockets knowing they can get away with it. Yeah… exactly what they want. Democrats and establishment Republicans targeted President Donald Trump. How did they think he would react? He really said “He takes everything personally” after everything they tried to do to him? Did I really just hear that? And I stand by the fact that an innocent person doesn’t need a pardon. Republican Adam Kinzinger, who was on the January 6 committee, agrees innocent people don’t need pardons. Yes, he said it. “The only reason to ask for a pardon is because you think you’ve committed a crime.” -- Didn't age so well. If we listen to Kinzinger, then he is admitting that everyone on the January 6 committee who accepts a pardon from Biden is admitting that they have committed a crime and are guilty. That will be the reason they accept the pardons, and you can be sure Kinzinger will have his hand out. (…)

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