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On this week’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Attorney General Eric Holder suggested President Joe Biden “let the system do its work” in the event of a hypothetical conviction of former President Donald Trump. Holder argued for signs of remorse from Trump and that he had turned his life around before Biden granted the pardon.

This one might surprise you. The findings of a new survey revealed that a significant number of Democratic voters would support the next president issuing a pardon for former President Donald Trump if he is convicted by the Justice Department.A majority of voters, as revealed in a survey by Harvard-Harris, believe that former President Donald Trump should be pardoned if he is convicted and sentenced to jail for mishandling classified documents. The poll showed that 53 percent of respondents were in favor of a potential presidential pardon, while 47 percent were against it. The issue of pardoning Trump is largely...

Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” argued that his fellow Republicans should not promise to pardon former President Donald Trump. Anchor Dana Bash said, “You just heard your fellow 2024 candidate Vivek Ramaswamy say he would pardon Donald Trump on his first day in office. What is your reaction?”

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if he were elected president that he would pardon former President Donald Trump if convicted in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Anchor Dana Bash said, “So before you heard any details of the allegations in the Trump indictment, you put out a statement saying if you become president, you would pardon Donald Trump on day one. Now you’ve seen the allegations, and you’ve seen that he stored highly classified information like nuclear secrets and others in unsecured areas of his country club. Given everything that you’ve seen,...

Joe Biden laughed off a Trump pardon on Monday as he was about to board Marine One en route to New Castle, Delaware. Biden stopped to chat with reporters on the South Lawn as he was about to depart for Delaware following Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Joe Biden was a confused mess at the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He quickly headed back to Delaware ahead of schedule Monday afternoon. Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Joe Biden about DeSantis’ remarks on a possible Trump pardon. Last week DeSantis said...

On Friday, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle surprisingly asked Joe Biden in an interview about the looming charges his son Hunter faces and, if he’s charged, what that means for his presidency. “First of all, my son has done nothing wrong,” Biden claimed. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.” Hunter Biden faces four potential charges, including tax evasion and lying on a government form to purchase a firearm. U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware, appointed by former President Donald Trump, is still deciding on these charges. But that’s...

As Hunter Biden faces a potential criminal indictment this week, his former best friend Devon Archer will make his last bid to avoid jail Tuesday when his appeal is heard in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. As he grows increasingly despondent, friends with knowledge of Hunter’s thinking are telling Archer to accept that the Bidens have thrown him under the bus and that a last-minute presidential pardon has been ruled out. They have urged him to save himself by using the only currency he has left — his knowledge of the Biden family influence-peddling scheme, for which he had a...

AdChoices FOX News FOX News Biden setting stage for pardoning Hunter as he frames potential DOJ charges as 'political witch hunt': Devine Opinion by Bailee Hill • 1h ago President Biden is setting the stage for pardoning his son Hunter as his Department of Justice weighs a potential indictment stemming from a years-long federal investigation, Fox News contributor Miranda Devine warned. Devine's comments come after Biden finally addressed the possibility of his son facing charges during a rare sit-down interview where he dismissed the chance that it would have any impact on his tenure in office. "That mythology of Joe...

President Gerald Ford believed he did the right thing when in 1974 he pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, of any criminality connected to the cover-up of the Watergate scandal that had forced Nixon to be the first (and to date, only) president to resign from office. Like many Americans at the time, I was furious at Ford for preempting what surely would have been an indictment for obstruction of justice and related crimes, and I was convinced there had been some secret deal to let Nixon get away with crimes that sent others in his administration to prison. Nixon should...

Give this article ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story OPINION GUEST ESSAY What Ford’s Pardon of Nixon Means (and Doesn’t Mean) for Trump Feb. 20, 2023 President Richard Nixon and Vice President Gerald Ford smile at each other as they sit side by side at a desk. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Gerald Ford in the Oval Office in 1973. Ford pardoned Nixon soon after his resignation a year later.Credit...Associated Press Give this article By Garrett M. Graff Mr. Graff is the author of “Watergate: A New History.” Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of...

President Joe Biden pardoned two White House turkeys on Monday, continuing a presidential tradition. The two turkeys were named “Chocolate” and “Chip,” prompting the president to talk about ice cream. “Of course, Chocolate is my favorite ice cream,” he said after talking about the turkeys. He spoke briefly and moved over to the two turkeys pardoning them immediately.

SACRAMENTO – As states across the country continue to impose archaic and dangerous laws to outlaw abortion and criminalize patients and providers, Governor Gavin Newsom today granted a posthumous pardon to Laura Miner, a courageous provider of reproductive health services in California from 1934 to 1948, and lifted up the state’s continued work to expand and protect reproductive rights and health care access for all. Laura Miner dedicated her career to providing safe and accessible elective abortions at a time when punitive restrictions forced women to seek unregulated and often medically risky abortions. She was respected in the medical community...

With the midterms bearing down and the post-George Floyd crime wave still underway, President Biden and his fellow Democrats face a dilemma: Continue hammering the theme that law enforcement is racist or position themselves as guardians of law and order?Innate inclination won out again last week. Biden announced that he was pardoning all individuals who have ever been federally convicted of marijuana possession. His reason for doing so, Biden said, was to “right” the racial “wrongs” that the criminal justice system has allegedly perpetrated. “While white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people...

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he’s pardoning individuals charged with simple marijuana possession on a federal level, but his decision does not affect broad groups of Americans and non-citizens charged with the crime. There’s historical precedent for mass application of the presidential pardon power, but the sheer size of Biden’s pardon list stands out among most recent predecessors. The White House estimates “6,500 people with prior federal convictions” and “thousands of such convictions under (Washington, DC) law could benefit from this relief.”

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has reversed its decision to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug conviction, according to a letter obtained by CNN. The about-face on Wednesday comes nearly a year after the board voted unanimously to recommend the pardon and more than two years after Floyd was killed by a former Minneapolis officer. The board did not cite a reason for its decision in the letter, which was sent Thursday to the Harris County public defender working on behalf of Floyd’s surviving family members. “After a full and careful review of the...

My Email to Governor Desantis Dear Governor Desantis, with all the controversy about sending newly arrived Illegal Aliens to these bastians of liberalism and sanctuary cities and States, I would implore you take a different approach, Offer Every last Illegal Alien in your Jails and Prisons in your State a Conditional FULL PARDON if they agree to be shipped to Delaware, DC, or Martha's Vineyard and promise in writing to never come back to your State or their Pardon will be Revoked and they will be rearrested and serve the remainder of their sentence.

President Donald Trump met with Wendy Bell on her radio show today where they discussed the January 6 political prisoners, the border and skyrocketing energy costs. Many of Trump’s supporters have criticized him for leaving the January 6 political prisoner to be mentally and physically abused in prison while facing liberal judges who refuse to give them fair trials. During the interview, Trump explained to Bell that he is financially supporting some of them and if he decides to run and is re-elected he will consider giving them full pardons.

The last Salem “witch” to be exonerated has been pardoned more than 329 years after she was convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials. On Thursday, Massachusetts lawmakers exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr of witchcraft, making her the last “witch” to be pardoned. Between 1692 and 1693, dozens of women were hanged for witchcraft and hundreds more were accused of being “witches” at the trials in Salem.

@newsmax TRUMP: 'RINO' Lindsey Graham "doesn't know what the hell he's talking about" when the Senator says it would be inappropriate for Trump to potentially pardon Jan 6 defendants. Clip...