Posted on 01/08/2025 9:48:33 AM PST by Red Badger
The president had been reported to be considering issuing pardons to people who have not been charged with a crime.
President Joe Biden in a Jan. 5 interview confirmed that he is considering whether to issue preemptive pardons.
White House officials have said that Biden plans to issue additional pardons and commutations before his term ends.
Preemptive pardons would differ from those Biden has already issued and those issued by other presidents in their final days in office. They would protect people from prosecution for charges that have not yet been brought.
“Some of your supporters have encouraged you to issue preemptive pardons to people like Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci ... will you do that?” USA TODAY’s Susan Page asked Biden during the interview.
The individuals suggested have drawn criticism from President-elect Donald Trump, who is set to take office again on Jan. 20.
Biden referenced a meeting with Trump at the White House in November 2024.
“I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores,” Biden said, recounting the conversation they had.
Trump did not respond directly to that advice, according to the president.
“He didn’t. But he didn’t say, ‘No, I’m going to...’ You know. He didn’t reinforce it. He just basically listened,” Biden said.
“So you haven’t decided yet. You’re still assessing this issue?” Page asked.
“No, I haven’t,” Biden responded. “A little bit of it depends on who he puts in what positions,” Biden said. The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment. Inquiries sent to the employers of Cheney and Fauci were not returned.
Biden in late 2024 pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, whom a jury convicted of federal gun charges and who pleaded guilty to intentionally failing to pay taxes. Biden later pardoned another 39 people and commuted the sentences of some 1,500 others, including 37 death row prisoners. One individual floated as a possible preemptive pardon candidate is Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state. Clinton, who mishandled confidential emails and whose campaign funded opposition research against Trump, was included in a list compiled by Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director. The list, Patel has said, are participants in the so-called deep state. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, has said that he does not think Biden should preemptively pardon his wife. “I hope he won’t do that,” he said during a recent television appearance on Dec. 11. A Clinton Foundation spokesperson did not return a request for comment. Biden this month awarded Cheney, who was mentioned during the interview, a Presidential Citizens Medal for her work as vice chair of a House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Biden said Cheney and other former officials who received the medal in the ceremony had “dedicated their careers to serving our democracy” and “served in difficult times with honor, decency and ensure our democracy delivers.”
If I were Fauci, and if I hated my neighbor, I’d probably go over and shoot the guy now. Why not? A pardon is coming, so if you commit the murder today, you will become untouchable next week.
Or maybe these preemptive pardons are just a bad idea entirely.
If pre-emptive pardons are now a thing, we can expect each president to issue pre-emptive pardons for every member of his administration prior to leaving office from now on.
Is that legal? I know, the Bidens have no care about legalities, but, is it legal?
Biden has cheapened the Medal of Honor with celebrities and politicians, donaters like soros and non Americans.
Look for Pardons for his brother and Himself
Nixon
Not Fauci under any circumstances. He killed more than Hitler and Pol Pot and then some.
Is there any basis for this in law? Never heard of it before.
IMHO.
Yep. The Democrats running the show behind the scenes (Biden does NOT know what is going on.) are very real psychopathic murderers. They are determined to get back in power and kill everyone who has breathed a positive word about Trump. They hate him and us much.
Those are not Medals of Honor. They are Presidential Medals of Freedom, which are civilian medals. But a lot of the recipients of even that are jokes anyway.
No way... presidential power is simply not that extensive.
That’s what leftists do. BTW, it’s the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom Biden destroyed.
As a corollary, Wes Moore, the current leftist loser Stolen Valor Governor of Maryland lied for years about being a Bronze Star recipient for actions in Afghanistan.
A few months ago he was caught in his lie and said that his command told him he was supposed to get one but it was never awarded.
Until it was magically awarded two weeks ago.
Biden pre-emptively pardoned his son Hapless Hunter for anything he did from 2010 until the end of November 2024, no matter whether Hunter had not been charged.
It’s been done before.
Ford pardoning Nixon preemptively.
Carter pardoned draft dodgers.
Bush Sr. pardoned Weinberger over Iran/Contra.
Lincoln did it as well during the civil war.
Sure you have.
What crimes was Nixon charged with?
This just confirms that he knows about the crimes that have already been committed.
I really hope he does it. One, because I think going after Fauci, Cheney, etc, is a waste of Trump’s and Patel’s timem which should be spent going after CURRENT evildoers in the government. And second, because as soon as Biden pardons them - and they accept - they will be held as “guilty” in the eyes of a majority of the American people, without a single Grand Jury needing to be called.
Hmmm. I thought all the Dems were solid on that “No one is above the law” thingy. Or is that only for Conservatives?
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