Posted on 05/15/2020 2:41:14 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would not pardon President Donald Trump if elected and insisted any prosecutorial decisions would be left to a more independent Justice Department.
Answering questions in a virtual town hall-style event on MSNBC Thursday, the Democratic presidential hopeful was asked by a voter about whether he’d follow the lead of former President Gerald Ford, who pardoned Richard Nixon in large part to help the nation move beyond the Watergate scandal.
Biden, while not speaking to any specific potential charge, committed to ensuring that any prosecutorial decisions would be dictated by the law, in contrast to what he called the "dereliction of duty” by Trump and his attorney general, William Barr.
"It's hands off completely. The attorney general is not the president's lawyer. It's the people's lawyer,” Biden said. “We never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today.”
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Pardon him for...?
Well, just damn!(sarc)
Would you pardon Barak Obama?
More to the point, will Donald Trump pardon Biden?
I think not...
Trump should immediately pardon Biden.
Trump should immediately pardon Biden.
Well Joe, first you have to have a crime, a charge, a trial,
a conviction, a sentencing...
Maybe you should wait for a few of these steps before you
act like you can’t grasp this stuff.
“We never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today.”
BWAHAhahahahahaha...
Unless he wrote it down, he would not remember to do it.
Trump can pardon himself before he leaves office, you knucklehead!
That would be funny. Give Biden the type of pardon that Ford gave Nixon.
“Now, Therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Joe Biden for all offenses against the United States which he, Joe Biden, has committed or may have committed or taken part in, etc., etc.”
Joe would probably stroke out.
Would he invent some sort of crime in Nazi-fashion and put him through a kangaroo court and just declare him guilty? You bet.
Trump can pardon himself before he leaves office, you knucklehead!
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I don’t think so.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/self-pardons-president-cant-pardon-himself-so-why-do-people-think-he-can
Will he pardon 0bama. And himself?
Joey’s brain is broken.
The question may well be would Trump pardon Biden?
the big headline here is:
Biden does not promise to not pardon Barrack Obama for any crimes he is found guilty of.
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