Which (Alleged) Crime Did Matt Gaetz Want a Pardon For?

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump was not lacking in pardon requests in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots, according to new information revealed during the hearings on Thursday. Among those who asked for pardons: Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Mo Brooks (R-AL). That in itself proves that Brooks knew Trump’s “Big Lie” was a load of BS, says New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy on the latest post-hearing episode. Also in this episode, Jay Willis, editor in chief of Balls & Strikes, breaks down two Supreme Court rulings, including the rejection of gun control legislation in New York, loudly proclaimed in an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas. “Thomas’ opinion basically freezes firearm regulation as it existed [in the Constitution],” Willis says of Thomas’ mind-boggling explanation. Last but not least, Greg Sargent, author of The Washington Post’s The Plum Line blog, makes the case that the Jan. 6 hearings are absolutely making an impact.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
0:04.6	I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envote.
0:08.0	And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:13.7	objective.
0:14.7	And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:18.0	the rails.
0:19.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science
0:23.5	and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
0:28.0	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal we'll talk about the
0:31.8	people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
0:35.9	What a great show we have today.
0:37.6	First we'll talk to Jay Willis, who's of course the editor-in-chief of Balls and Strikes.
0:41.2	And he's going to talk to us about the Supreme Court's latest terrible ruin.
0:44.7	Then we're going to talk to Greg Sgt who's of course the editor of the PUM line blog
0:48.4	for The Washington Post.
0:49.4	And he's going to talk to us about what he's seeing all around politics today.
0:53.8	But first, let's have some fun.
0:56.6	What do you think?
0:57.6	Molly Johnxfest.
0:58.6	Crimes.
0:59.6	He did him.
1:02.7	He did him.
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