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<blockquote data-quote="Doublestandards" data-source="post: 6047694" data-attributes="member: 110123">In recent days, some of those covered by the pardons had said they did not want them, including former Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, and Senator <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/politics/california-senate-schiff-garvey.html" target="_blank">Adam B. Schiff</a>, Democrat of California, both of whom served on the Jan. 6 committee with Ms. Cheney.“As soon as you take a pardon, it looks like you are guilty of something,” Mr. Kinzinger <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2025-01-06/segment/06" target="_blank">said on CNN</a> this month. Mr. Schiff said in a separate CNN interview that it would set a bad precedent. “I don’t want to see each president hereafter on their way out the door giving a broad category of pardons to members of their administration,” <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2025-01-06/segment/05" target="_blank">he said</a>.Michael Fanone, one of the police officers covered by the pardon, said he did not want a pardon and never spoke with anyone from the White House about it, but expressed anger and dismay that Mr. Biden felt compelled to grant him clemency.Mr. Fanone, who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters on Jan. 6, said it was “insane that we live in a country where the president of the United States feels the need to offer a pre-emptive pardon to American citizens who testified in an investigation regarding an insurrection which was incited by the incoming president because he’s promised to enact, or exact, vengeance on those participants and the body that investigated them.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doublestandards, post: 6047694, member: 110123"] In recent days, some of those covered by the pardons had said they did not want them, including former Representative Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, and Senator [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/politics/california-senate-schiff-garvey.html']Adam B. Schiff[/URL], Democrat of California, both of whom served on the Jan. 6 committee with Ms. Cheney. “As soon as you take a pardon, it looks like you are guilty of something,” Mr. Kinzinger [URL='https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2025-01-06/segment/06']said on CNN[/URL] this month. Mr. Schiff said in a separate CNN interview that it would set a bad precedent. “I don’t want to see each president hereafter on their way out the door giving a broad category of pardons to members of their administration,” [URL='https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2025-01-06/segment/05']he said[/URL]. Michael Fanone, one of the police officers covered by the pardon, said he did not want a pardon and never spoke with anyone from the White House about it, but expressed anger and dismay that Mr. Biden felt compelled to grant him clemency. Mr. Fanone, who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters on Jan. 6, said it was “insane that we live in a country where the president of the United States feels the need to offer a pre-emptive pardon to American citizens who testified in an investigation regarding an insurrection which was incited by the incoming president because he’s promised to enact, or exact, vengeance on those participants and the body that investigated them.” [/QUOTE]

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