She disclosed that Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and “multiple other Republican congressmen” involved in trying to overturn the election sought pardons from Mr. Trump in his final days in office. And she noted that while Mr. Pence repeatedly took action to summon help to stop the mob on Jan. 6, the president himself made no such effort. Instead, his White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, tried to convince Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to pretend that Mr. Trump was actively involved. “He said, ‘We have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions,’” General Milley said in videotaped testimony. I immediately interpreted that as politics, politics, politics.”

Source: New York Times June 11, 2022 14:46 UTC