(Accepting a pardon means, by rule of law, you are a criminal. -nvp)
Admission of Fauci’s Guilt
January 23, 2025
“FAUCI, Milley & the Corrupt Congressman are attempting to have their cake and to eat it too. They want to accept the benefit of the phony ‘pardons’ protections WHILE at the same time continuing to proclaim their own innocence. This is a LEGAL impossibility. And if the Trump team doesn’t shut this down by bringing charges against all of them and forcing them to choose admission of guilt & the pardon protection, OR proclaimed innocence & defend in court, then the Trump team is just as complicit in this outrage. The Supreme Court has made it clear. You can’t ‘accept’ the benefits of a pardon AND simultaneously continue to proclaim you’re innocent. “A pardon, in our history, has been used as an act of grace, and its acceptance is an admission of guilt.” Burdick v. US (1915).”
— Legalman
https://www.thinkinghousewife.com/2025/01/admission-of-faucis-guilt/
Accepting a pardon doesn’t mean by law you are a criminal. You’re a criminal if you’ve been charged and convicted.
“Preemptive” pardons are a legal unicorn. They are what they are.
Fauci is an evil dude. But it’s convenient to make him the scapegoat. Indeed, that’s why he was pardoned. He’ll always be the great scapegoat for the deep state now , which includes Donald Trump. And so we’ll think that’s it and done, and over, and it won’t be.
After all, Fauci worked for Donald Trump, not the other way around. Fauci worked for Reagan. Fauci worked for every president the last 55 or so years. Why is he and not these presidents who were his bosses, the scapegoat?
Mark – Pre-emptive pardons are not even a valid thing. They are an attemt to declare that the person is above prosecution or, proverbially, “above the law”. Pre-emptive pardons are not what the Framers envisioned, in the Presidential power of pardon.
But yes, Testing all that, by making Fauci & others use their pardons affirmatively – That is a great idea.
Or extradition (for Fauci, to Russia). Or civil suits. Or State-level prosecutions. Or Congressional investigations into how & why they got their pardons ie. were there corrupt motives; investigations in which their testimony would be compelled (5th Amendment protection gone).
Many ways to skin them.
But to go back to the first idea, direct Federal prosecution so they must rely on their pardons actively – One thing: The bureaucracy gonna bureaucracy.
Who, currently on staff at the current DOJ, would ever carry out such orders? Or not slow-walk it? I’d guess, nobody. They might even refuse orders to prosecute, self-righteously as “illegal orders”.
AG Bondi needs time to re-shape the department, bring in new blood. And she’s not even confirmed. Sorry, but you have to wait until *at least* her first few months.
Mark – related-but-different topic – did you see where W.H.O. issued a pandemic alert for H5N1?
CDC (Biden bureaucracy) is trying to join in, but not having great success.
Let’s put two and two together, with Trump’s immediate, first-day withdrawal of the U.S. from the W.H.O. Did Trump just stop the U.S. being in another pandemic?? Wait, I keep forgetting, our Blackpill brethren – who in their wisdom, surely know all 😉 – tell me that he never could or would. ◔_◔