In Friday segment with a Philadelphia station, the midstate Congressman denies seeking a pardon, calls scrutiny the 'price to be paid for service.'
after Nixon resigned in the midst of the Watergate scandal.
Trump backed out of the plan, according to the reports, when he was confronted with threats of mass resignations at DOJ if Clark was installed. Instead, he took the opportunity to blast the Select Committee’s work, noting that in Thursday night’s nationally-televised presentation the committee’s leaders said nothing about what he termed the failures of the Democratic Congressional leaders or Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to take adequate steps to prepare for potential security threats as the Jan. 6 rally of Trump supporters approached.
“We’re either going to have an investigation and find the facts and find accountability, or we’re not. And apparently we’re not, at least at this time,” Perry said. “You’re not going to hear any of that because this is meant to prevail against their political opponents.”
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