Adam Schiff: Trump’s Message Is ‘If You Use Violence to Keep Me in Power, I Will Have Your Back’

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SCHIFF: "Well, this is what happens when you empower white nationalist groups, when you empower people who use violence to try to thwart the transfer of power. They respond. They feel emboldened to go on and call for potentially even more to come. This is the — this is the danger. And I think of all of these acts we’re seeing, among the most destructive of our democracy is pardoning not just people who beat and attacked and gouged and bear-sprayed, baseball-batted police officers. That is heinous enough, to give those people pardons. But they were doing that in the service of a broader crime, and that was to overturn our election. When you give pardons to people like that, you’re basically saying, 'Hey, if you use violence to keep me in power, I will have your back.' And as we see, they’re emboldened, they feel that the president has their back."