Posted on 06/01/2025 4:41:25 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Amid the wave of pardons and commutations President Trump has doled out to some of his supporters and surrogates, one former MAGA loyalist in Idaho is fighting to return her pardon.
Pamela Hemphill is one of the more than 1,500 people whom Mr. Trump pardoned earlier this year for their roles in the U.S. Capitol Insurrection. She has invoked help from her Republican senator to formally refuse and block the pardon Trump issued her on Jan. 20, his first day back in the White House.
Though Hemphill was a defendant of the largest criminal prosecution in American history, she is seemingly standing alone now as the only Jan. 6 defendant to refuse the clemency Mr. Trump offered.
Speaking with CBS News from her home in Idaho, Hemphill said, "The pardons just contribute to their narrative, which is all lies, propaganda. We were guilty, period."
"We all know that they're gaslighting us. They are using January 6 to just continue Trump's narrative that the Justice Department was weaponized," she said. "They were not, When the FBI came to my home, oh my God, they were very professional. They treated me very good."
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What?
Ray Epps in a dress
/s
Mentally ill? Bad legal advice?
The sheriff out in Phoenix tried to refuse a pardon so he could continue his appeals, as I recall. It didn’t work for him, either.
So do I.
Bingo!
Exactly what Ray Epps did.
Wonder how much they paid her to say that nonsense.
Uh...do you just want me to repeat what I wrote? Odd request, but okay. :
You don't have to "refuse" a pardon. A pardon is without any legal effect unless the person who received it files it in court. There are cases on this.
She is certainly free to tear it up and never use it
So...she didn’t pay for the crimes she didn’t commit like others did in her place? Good to know.
Yep.
>> We were guilty, period.
ALL? I call BS on that one. I had friends that were there.
Depends on whose lies and propaganda she’s talking about. In a sense she’s right, since to accept a pardon constitutes an admission of guilt. Anyway, the source is beyond suspect to begin with.
CBS found one!
If she believes she was guilty, perhaps she should turn herself into jail, period.
Or she is being paid paid for her service.
Agreed. Doesn’t pass the smell test.
Sun-downing, brown outs, T.S.T.L. (To stupid to live).
I stopped reading when I saw the words “U.S. Capitol Insurrection.” BS!
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