I've had a lot of people writing me emails asking why we are still covering the former

president so much.

I welcome this conversation that we're about to have.

It's important to cover the de facto leader of the Republican Party who's setting the

agenda for 2022 midterms and potentially the 2024 presidential election.

We cannot ignore him.

And frankly, this week it would have been pretty hard to ignore former president Trump anyway.

Over the weekend, Trump made some pretty extreme claims.

First, he said at a rally that he'd pardon the January 6th rioters if he won re-election

in 2024.

And another thing we'll do and so many people have been asking me about it.

If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6th, fairly.

We will treat them fairly.

And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so

unfairly.

And later, he said that former vice president Pence could have overturned the 2020 election

results.

Plus, reporters have surfaced several memos that showed just how far Trump was willing

to go to use the federal government to help him stay in power.

And all of this has happened as civil and criminal suits involving the former president have

been stacking up and the congressional investigation of January 6th is still underway.

Yet, Trump's plans to run again in 2024 seem perhaps more apparent than ever.

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