Attorney Neal Katyal said on Sunday that he believed President-elect Donald Trump was trying to “bait” President Joe Biden into offering ousted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) a pardon, arguing he’d then use that as evidence that she’d done something wrong.
Katyal spoke with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on her Sunday morning MSNBC show, “Inside with Jen Psaki,” and he argued that if Biden were to pardon Cheney — in an effort to insulate her from retaliatory prosecution over her involvement in the January 6th Committee’s investigation — it might actually help Trump to go after her in the court of public opinion.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social on Biden potentially pardoning Liz Cheney: “I think what Trump is trying to do here is to bait President Biden into pardoning Liz Cheney, and that’ll allow Trump to say, ‘Hey, look even Biden thinks Liz Cheney did something…
