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LEAHY: "It sounds definitely like a threat. I cannot believe I would ever hear this from somebody running for office or in office. I was a prosecutor for eight years. To think that somebody would run for a high office and say, 'You can conduct any kind of criminal conduct you want. Don’t worry. If you’re doing it to support me, I’ll give you a pardon when I get there.' You know, as prosecutor, I’d say this has to be — somebody’s making this up, it couldn’t be real. And yet when you were there on January 6th, as I was, I look out and I see them putting a noose up to hang the vice president if he didn’t throw the election out, I see people storming through, I could smell the tear gas, I could see the — I could see the damaged windows, beautiful parts of the Capitol had been damaged, and seeing people say, 'We’re doing this because Donald Trump told us to' — this is not a democracy. This is something that you’d see in a third world nation with a two-bit dictator."