John Dean, who served as White House counsel during Nixon's Watergate scandal, has distanced himself from Donald Trump's claim that he would consider pardoning the January 6 Capitol rioters.
If I win, we will treat those people fairly. At his Texas rally on Saturday, Trump said that he would treat them fairly and that he would give them pardons. They are being treated unfairly.
Dean, who was disbarred for obstruction of justice and held in government custody for four months during the Watergate scandal, disagreed with Trump's promise of pardons.
This is beyond being a demagogue to the stuff of dictators.
He is breaking the law. Failure to confront a tyrant only encourages bad behavior.
Several prominent Republicans, including Dean, have come out against the potential pardon of the Capitol rioters.
Lindsey Graham said it was inappropriate for the former president to make such a suggestion.
Graham doesn't want to send a signal that it was okay to ruin the Capitol.
I think it is inappropriate. I don't want to make sure that defiling the Capitol was ok. Graham said that he didn't want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future.
New Hampshire GOP Gov. Chris Sununu said that the rioters should not be pardoned.
The people who were part of the riots and the assault on the US Capitol have to be held accountable, Sununu said during an interview on CNN.
Everybody needs to be held accountable. That is part of leadership.
More than 700 people have been charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot and at least 178 have pleaded guilty. 11 members of the Oath Keepers militia were charged with seditious conspiracy in the Justice Department's investigation.
Clemency for Steve Bannon, a former chief strategist for Trump, was one of 73 pardons and 70 commutations issued by the president before he left office. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and George Papadopoulos were all pardoned by Trump.
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