Posted on 01/20/2025 9:08:01 AM PST by Phoenix8
Washington CNN — President Joe Biden on Monday issued an extraordinary slate of preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump and members of his own family, using executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor while also guaranteeing his closest relatives aren’t subject to future prosecutions.
Clemency for Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of Congress who served on the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was announced early Monday morning. Later, minutes before Trump was to be inaugurated as the nation’s 47th president, Biden also issued pardons for members of his family.
The pardons, coming in the final hours of Biden’s presidency, amount to a stunning flex of presidential power that is unprecedented in recent presidential history. They serve to protect several outspoken critics of the incoming president, including former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, whom Trump has vowed retribution against.
But they also protect his close family members and potentially establish a precedent the new president will use to protect his own allies from criminal prosecution.
“My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” Biden said in a statement released as the inauguration ceremony was underway at the US Capitol.
“Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances,” the outgoing president said.
A statement earlier in the day said Biden “in good conscience” could not stand aside with the threat of reprisals by the incoming president against his adversaries.
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The pardon is for many in his family and retroactive, back to 2014. Any federal crimes committed.
Everyone knows that the whole administration was organized crime.
Now we know they were all crooks.
Let the investigation begin—and hopefully it will provide evidence for state and local criminal charges and an endless stream of civil suits.
This scuzz cannot exit office quickly enough.
More treason committed by the worst traitor to the United States of America.
Why not? That's exactly what he did in 2021.
Does anyone know how many pardons this crook has issued?
STATE LAWS and civil prosecutions.
Now everyone has to come before Congress and testify without 5th Amendment protections.
Dr. Fauci could always be extradited. Any country that lost a citizen from the engineered virus could charge him.
Where should he go to serve his sentence?
Indonesia, Laos, Iran?
Trump is letting the dems have it and they have to sit there and take it... buwahahahahaha
The press never labels Bidens actions as reprisals.
“MSNBC Guest RAGES Over Biden PARDONING Liz Cheney, Fauci, & J6 Committee Before Trump Inauguration!”
by Black Conservative Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_RalbWRSY
This just in, President Trump’s family and cabinet have absolute immunity.
Ladies and gents of the Trump admin, go to town. He’s got your back. Anything goes!!! Have at it.
𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳
A shield against revenge???
How about “as a shield against r̶e̶v̶e̶n̶g̶e̶ justice...”
President Trump should set up military tribunals and try these pieces of filth for treason. From FJB right on down the line.
And Trump is the one who got shot????
Pardons are for people that have committed crimes......so 🤷
I think it is close to 2000..
There is no justice in America. These illegitimately-pardoned FELONS think they have gotten away with crimes, but rest assured they will be called to account for their unjust actions, whether in this life or the next.
I hope they cower in fear and look behind their shoulders every waking moment for the rest of their lives. I pray God brings retribution for the hell they have put good, patriotic Americans through.
Lord, bring your swift and thorough retribution against these evil individuals. Let your fiery wrath fall upon their heads for all eternity!
Biden is right now grinning and smirking as Trump is telling how he will fix things.
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