Posted on 12/27/2024 8:40:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As RedState previously reported, President Joe Biden decided to drop an unwelcome Christmas surprise on the families of murder victims whose killers were on federal death row by commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
"... guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," Biden's said in a statement posted to the White House website Monday.
In the next sentence, Biden confirmed he was doing this in part to spite President-Elect Donald Trump, a proponent of capital punishment, saying, "In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."
SEE ALSO-->> 'Abhorrent Decision': Trump Team Responds to Biden's Death Row Commutations
Biden's announcement came some two weeks after he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39, which was done just a few days after he issued a sweeping pardon of his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden, in what many political observers view as Democrat privilege run wildly amok.
Though the death row commutations were particularly infuriating, some have suggested that maybe it wasn't Biden himself who was the driving force behind the move. Among them is Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who during a Fox News interview Thursday noted that he believed Biden didn't even know what he was signing:
Look, I think what’s happening with Joe Biden, nobody thinks he even knows about these clemencies or these pardons. This is the radical left staff that has been running this administration for the last four years. And so I agree with President Trump in what he said about these 37 individuals who have been granted clemency.
Donalds then expanded on his point, stating that this was something the radical left wanted to do all along but now had the chance to do because, in his view, Biden - for all intents and purposes - is not in charge anymore (if he ever was at all) in the final weeks of his presidency:
This is outrageous. They should not have a Merry Christmas, to be perfectly blunt with you. But this is because we have the radical left doing all the things they’ve been wanting to do for a very long time on their way out the door while Joe Biden is at the beach or taking a nap or whatever it is he’s doing. This is a travesty. We are a country that doesn't have a president right now.
Watch:
NEW: Congressman Byron Donalds says nobody actually believes Biden was the one who issued these pardons and commutations for criminals on de*th row.
HOST: Do you think Biden knew what he was signing?
DONALDS: "No. I don't."
"This is the radical left staff that has been running this administration for the last 4 years.""They should NOT have a merry Christmas, to be blunt [...] We are a country that DOESN'T HAVE a PRESIDENT right now."
@ByronDonalds is exactly right. How are we to believe this was Biden's decision? Especially when in the past, he's bragged about being tough on crime. pic.twitter.com/y9ZsNigJPH— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 27, 2024
Honestly, I think at this point that a convincing case could be made that Donalds is not that far off in suggesting Biden didn't have a clue what he was signing off on with the death row commutations. Quite frankly, since the election, the few times he's been seen or given speeches he's looked and sounded even worse than he did in the months leading up to Election Day.
On the other hand, it wouldn't be surprising to learn that he knew exactly what he was doing considering, to Donalds' point, Biden's guiding force for the entire four years of his presidency has been the activist left, who have used Biden as a vessel to try and foist the worst of their ideas (and there are many) on the American people by way of executive decisions/actions/orders.
Whatever the case may be, the commutations for the federal death row inmates stink, and will be yet another negative mark on Biden's long and troublesome political legacy.
FLASHBACK: Byron Donalds Brings the Fire After Hillary Clinton Insults Trump Supporters
Could a case be made that all the pardons, since Biden won’t remember signing them, were illegally issued and could be retracted?
optimistically hoping that’s the case with 95% of the pardons/commutations
BTTT
The Trump lawyers could, and in my humble opinion should, pursue two separate lines of attack on Biden’s pardons.
The first and most likely to succeed is Representative Donalds point that Biden’s cognitive impairment places the legal validity in doubt and should be adjudicated by SCOTUS.
The second and less likely to succeed but worth the effort anyway is to prove beyond doubt that Biden DID NOT win the 2020 election, that it was a fraudulent election, thereby making any and all executive orders, appointments and legislation signed by Biden null and void.
That would include his pardons, and Hunter’s as well.
Neither is likely to be successful, but it would raise these issues with the American public, rather than just be ‘inside beltway politics’ for the Swamp to ruminate over.
It would also expose the radical left in Biden’s administration.
The case could be made that nobody but the president has the authority to act as Chief Executive, and anyone else so doing is actually committing treason.
Drag these rats out of their holes and expose and indict them.
Biden is getting the blame/credit for the last 4 years, but he was never in charge. This was obama’s 3rd term, but no one has the guts to come out and state it.
obama is an America hating Muslim and biden is his stooge.
Byron Donald is a man who knows what he’s talking about. He knows and he isn’t afraid to speak the truth. This is the reason I hoped president Trump would make him his vice president. We have two puppets at the top of our government, Biden and Harris both dangle at the end of Obama’s string.
Obama is just as you relayed. Biden has been a corrupt goon from the Coastal Elite all his miserable existence. I pray for God’s mercy.
Yet, the the entire course for humanity was cast with “we are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming America”. This POS thinks he’s clear.
Never forget nor forgive the evil, leftist, socialist/communist! They’ll bitch about a label, being bunched or a technical definition...They are Anti God, Anti human and you may have to decide their fate.
God be with you/us!
I wonder how much Biden is selling these get out of jail free pardons for?
It is simple. Everything they do is based on population control. Healthcare, soft on crime, importing criminals, releasing killers, outlawing self defense, climate change, abortion, alternative gender movement, Etc.
ALL of it is aimed towards one end goal... Population reduction. The end cause and effect of everything they support results in increased human death in every manner possible.
They should legally be retracted on many levels.
He didn’t make the decisions himself; his signing hand was simply a tool for his handlers.
AND/OR
If, by chance, he’s DID make the decisions himself, they were by someone with Cream Of Wheat for brains. He is not “of sound mind”.
AND/OR
He not the legitimate POTUS, the RATs having stolen the 2020 election. Every decision, EO, etc., was made by an imposter. I think many of the RATs hate him so much now, they might even admit that he lost.
Byron Donalds for Speaker of the House 2025.
you are so very correct
they want us dead
Or - maybe there may be some “incentives” for those that were lifers, but never on death row, to carry out the sentencing anyway...🥸
Well, “Population Replacement” . (And, with it at the same time and more importantly, Judeo-Christian Cultural Replacement. )
It is a group of extremists, but all working in Obama’s parallel paths to destroy what he hates.
Broadly, today’s liberal Racists (Blacks and Browns) have been brought and trained to hate white, European Judeo-Christian capitalists and blame them for “everything” since 6000 BC.
Broadly, today’s radical but aging white ethnic hippies remember their 1960s, and continue their training and Communist inspirations to destroy the US-UK-Israel white, European Judeo-Christian capitalist Western cultures for equality, fraternity, and utopian ivory tower dreams.
Broadly, today’s ecological-worshipping Green Party seek to also destroy the US-UK-Western Colonial Judeo-Christian capitalist culture for their dream heaven without any humans but themselves. (And a few dream of a world with no humans.)
Today’s communists? The same as the above.
Today’s radical women?
The same, but carrying signs and ballots painted in red, blood-stained signs aborting males and inconvenient babies.
Today’s radical Islamic population groups?
The same, colored in red, green, and black. Painting their signs in Judeo-Christian blood.
And one man to rule them all.
Virtually all of the major decisions of the Biden presidency have been made by the liberal cabal starting with the canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline on day one of his administration. The notable exception was the Hunter Biden pardon which I believe was pushed by the Biden family especially Jill Biden. Joe Biden was never really in charge of making policy decisions and of late I don’t believe he is even aware he is President.
THIS GUY WILL BE PRESIDENT SOMEDAY.
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