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Biden issues preemptive pardons for Milley, Fauci and Jan. 6 committee members
cnn ^ | 1/20/2025 | Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz

Posted on 01/20/2025 5:07:55 AM PST by logi_cal869

President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons 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, using extraordinary executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor, Donald Trump.

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.

“These are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing,” Biden wrote in a statement, issued hours before he was set to welcome Trump to the White House for tea before attending his swearing-in. “Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families.”

Biden had been weighing issuing the pardons in the waning days of his presidency, concerned Trump would enter office and immediately seek to prosecute his adversaries. In his statement, he spelled out his rationale, saying “alarmingly, public servants have been subjected to ongoing threats and intimidation for faithfully discharging their duties.”

The recipients of Biden’s pardons have all faced intense criticism from Trump and his allies.

Fauci served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infection Disease for decades, including during the outbreak of Covid in Trump’s first presidency, and Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Trump’s first term and has warned Trump is a fascist.

Biden, in his statement, noted that the pardons did not denote guilt.

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1 posted on 01/20/2025 5:07:55 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869

This PROVES they are ALL GUILTY OF CRIMES!!!


2 posted on 01/20/2025 5:09:20 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: logi_cal869

Even expecting it, it’s leaving a taste of yuck in my mouth.


3 posted on 01/20/2025 5:10:37 AM PST by mairdie
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To: logi_cal869

This is a confession by the biden admin that they committed treason and knew it at the time thinking they could get away with it. The pardon should be worthless for the crime of treason.


4 posted on 01/20/2025 5:14:06 AM PST by Boomer
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To: logi_cal869
The entire democRAT party is nothing more than an evil crime syndicate going back to the slave days pre civil war. They're positively demonic.

Eph 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

We need to outlaw and abolish it. They're evil. The RAT party is the face of satan.

5 posted on 01/20/2025 5:16:43 AM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
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To: logi_cal869

They should still be questioned under oath about what really happened noting they cannot hide behind the 5th.


6 posted on 01/20/2025 5:17:16 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: logi_cal869

Karma is going to be a real bitch.


7 posted on 01/20/2025 5:17:57 AM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: logi_cal869

Please do not let me encounter one of them.


8 posted on 01/20/2025 5:18:22 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: logi_cal869

Next: “All Democrats in any Federal Government Employment are Pre-Emptively Pardoned, nation-wide”..........it’s not politcal; it’s protecting them from Republicans seeking revenge......


9 posted on 01/20/2025 5:18:56 AM PST by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: logi_cal869

So then they committed crimes!


10 posted on 01/20/2025 5:19:01 AM PST by I want the USA back (Today the mean bitter old fart is going to his basement in Delaware to write his 'memoirs'.)
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To: logi_cal869

Is this even legal?, pardoning for crimes yet charged with???


11 posted on 01/20/2025 5:19:02 AM PST by wetgundog
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Mods: I searched for the keyword ‘pardon’. Apparently search does not see plurals. I never noticed that prior.

Now I see 3 other posts.

Delete if deemed appropriate before there’s a ton of comments.


12 posted on 01/20/2025 5:19:15 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Not just them...

Also...

“...and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee...”


13 posted on 01/20/2025 5:19:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: logi_cal869

Biden an still be impeached.


14 posted on 01/20/2025 5:19:40 AM PST by dforest
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To: logi_cal869

In a just nation, Milley and Fauci would fear for their lives. Biden has openly admitted that these two are felons of the worst order. It would be a shame if somehow their addresses were revealed.


15 posted on 01/20/2025 5:19:54 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: wetgundog

I don’t believe so.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4291232/posts?page=69#69


16 posted on 01/20/2025 5:20:03 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

He has no idea the can of worms he just opened. Talk about destroying our democracy.


17 posted on 01/20/2025 5:20:29 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: logi_cal869
“Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families.”

So sez "Jack Smith" Bidet...

18 posted on 01/20/2025 5:21:06 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: mewzilla

I did not see that.

See my other comment in a thread which didn’t come up in search before I posted

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4291232/posts?page=69#69


19 posted on 01/20/2025 5:21:08 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: traditional2

They have deemed themselves above the law. I never want to hear it out of any RAT or RINO mouth that “some people think they are above the law”.


20 posted on 01/20/2025 5:21:29 AM PST by dforest
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