Trump Bitterly Gripes to Fox News ‘I Can’t Even Go After’ Jan 6 Probers Biden Pardoned Under Threat From Trump
President Donald Trump griped to Fox News and Fox Noticias host Rachel Campos-Duffy that “I can’t even go after” figures from the January 6 investigation because then-President Joe Biden pardoned them, citing threats from Trump.
Campos-Duffy scored a sit-down with Trump this week, clips of which aired across Fox News programs like Fox & Friends and posted on Noticias.foxnews.com, FOX Noticias You Tube page, the FOX Noticias Podcast and on FOX Deportes.
After he spun theories about the Capitol riot, Trump assailed the January 6 investigation and Biden’s preemptive pardons. Biden issued the pardons in a statement citing “public servants” who have been “threatened with criminal prosecutions.”
In his rant to Fox News, Trump lamented that the pardons left him unable to carry out those threats:
TRUMP: Look the unselect Committee of political thugs–these horrible people–Democrats and two of the worst Republicans in history, crying Adam [Kinzinger] and Liz Cheney, two of the worst. They are just sick people. This was the committee. And it went for a year and a half. At the end of a year and a half, what did they do? They destroyed every piece of evidence they had because it came out totally on our side. Nancy Pelosi was responsible for the security. She knew that. She proclaimed it on her daughter’s tape. I mean, her daughter’s a videographer or whatever the hell she does. And she had Nancy complain, you know, saying, yeah, that she was responsible for it. Yes. They burned everything. And then Biden gave them all a pardon. These are congresspeople. These are people that are in Congress, not respected members, but they’re in Congress. If you did that in a civil thing. But think of it, they burned, deleted, and destroyed every single document after a year and a half because like the person that said, I grabbed this massive Secret Service agent around their neck and I was rebuffed. And then I went to the other one, and I think he was like, this big karate guy. And I went over there. And I had friends who say, ‘don’t ever change. It’s so cool.’ You know, I said, ‘no, I just want the truth.’
CAMPOS-DUFFY: That’s right.
TRUMP: But they burned all that information and I think she recanted. You know, I’ve heard she recanted her – after two years. She said, ‘no, it didn’t happen.’ Isn’t it a shame though, huh? Isn’t it a shame? I view that as being so egregious. And then what did Biden do? He– I don’t know him, or the autopen. Whoever operated the autopen was really the president, because I don’t know. But, Biden gave them all their freedom because they were dead. I mean, they literally – and you know how they announced that it was like a little sentence in a document that nobody saw but me and a couple of others. It said, ‘for the sake of clarity, we have decided to destroy all documents, destroy and delete all documents having to do.’
CAMPOS-DUFFY: It’s unbelievable.
TRUMP: So they work for a year and a half, making everybody’s life miserable. They realized that they were guilty as – you know, all those secret agents, secret service agents, they honestly testified. They testified in a very honest way, and everything was wrong for them. And what, rather than exposing what they did, the criminal acts, they created a criminal act, and they did it like – a really good. But could you imagine if I deleted and destroyed all documents. And this is a hearing, a big deal that was set up that shouldn’t have been allowed to go forward. And, that’s it. So we can’t even go after them because they were pardoned.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Right.
TRUMP: Now, these–we’re dealing with, with very corrupt people. We have a lot of corrupt people in our government.
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