‘The only reason I know [of] to ask for a pardon is because you think you’ve committed a crime.” This absurd coup de grâce was offered by outgoing congressman Adam Kinzinger at last week’s encore performance of the January 6 committee — as we’ve recounted, what the committee calls “hearings” are actually scripted melodramas, sprinkled with snippets of video mined 60 Minutes–style for insertion into the committee’s narrative.
Looking back a few days later, I can’t recall whether this straining-to-be-memorable soliloquy was delivered in the mode we’ve come to know as Weepy Kinzinger or merely Cloying Kinzinger, but it surely was a shot across the bow at Donald Trump’s House Republican allies. The sorties will continue this afternoon, when the committee convenes an abruptly scheduled session, poised to focus on the pardons.
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