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Guilty Republicans Need Trump to Pardon Them
Their hypocrisy isn't about politics — it's about self-preservation
Lindsay Graham, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, and other Republicans in Congress are worried. As soon as Trump was indicted, that worry became panic. That's because while we may not know everything they did to overturn the 2020 election, they know.
Their efforts to defend the indefensible and their insistence that the DOJ is being "weaponized" to persecute Trump are not based on their belief in Trump's innocence — they are attempting to protect themselves.
Republicans who pushed the Big Lie and are now attempting to subvert the law in a frantic effort to ensure that Trump is president again are doing so for one reason: they need Trump to take the oval so he can pardon them.
If Trump does not become president in 2024, there will be no one at DOJ to instruct district attorneys to cease their investigations into Republican lawmakers. Likewise, there will be no one with the power to quash federal cases against them — as former Attorney General William Barr did so successfully in the hush money case Michael Cohen went to prison for.
It's hard to believe the base has fallen for the lie that Trump did nothing wrong when his lackey went to jail for doing as Trump…
