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WATCH: 'I strongly support' Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, Loeffler says during confirmation hearing
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0:58Now PlayingFormer Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, President Donald Trump's nominee for small business administrator, told senators Wednesday that she "strongly" supports Trump's blanket pardon of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
"It's time to get past political persecution in this country. That's what Americans voted for," she said.
Loeffler was answering questions from Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who pointed out that the former senator had co-sponsored a resolution recognizing Brian Sicknick, a U.S. Capitol police officer who died after being attacked on Jan. 6.
As a senator, she also supported unsubstantiated claims about the 2020 election results, including a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results. She changed her mind about opposing the election results in Congress after the Jan. 6 attack and voted to certify Joe Biden’s win.
Loeffler, a former chief executive of cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt and a former co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, appeared before the Senate Committee of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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