U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin personally received pardon applications for members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, including members who were convicted of seditious conspiracy, a former classmate of Trump who is working on the issue told NBC News.
Martin posted photos of him meeting with attorney Peter Ticktin over the weekend, and Ticktin said that he delivered pardon applications to Martin last week.
“He had done recommendations for pardons — I listened! Cuz he’s wise,” Martin wrote.
“There’s a good deal of reason to be hopeful,” Ticktin, who went to the New York Milit Academy with Trump, told NBC News.
“No promises were made as to what would be done, that’s not the way it works. We present it and then we hope for the best,” Ticktin said.
Ticktin said that he expected the applications to go to Alice Johnson, who serves as White House Pardon Czar.
Martin was named as pardon attorney after his nomination to take over the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia on a permanent basis stalled in the Senate. He also serves as director of the Weaponization Working Group.
In his conversation with NBC News, Ticktin floated a conspiracy theory about the 2020 election, saying the real insurrection was not Jan. 6 but the 2020 election itself, and compared Jan. 6 to the Reichstag fire.
“So really, what happened on Jan. 6? Was it a whole bunch of people that got unruly because they were upset over the results of the election, or was this planned in advance by the people that were behind Biden? We know that Biden didn’t fix the election, Joe Biden couldn’t fix a flat tire. So who fixed it? Who did that?” Ticktin said.
