President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.
Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.
The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them. The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-white-house-discussing-preemptive-210346549.html
This is dumb.
Cheney committed no crime. Schiff committed no crime. Fauci, believe it or not, committed no crime. Fauci lied? Sure. Lying to congress can get you 5 years in prison. But pardon or not, Fauci is not going to prison.
Do you know why? Fauci isn’t a decision maker. The president is. If Fauci were to be indicted, all of the past presidents’ dirty secrets, including Trump’s, come to light. So Trump isn’t going after Fauci, though a Biden pardon would get Trump to pretend he’s upset.
Just like everyone aghast that Hunter Biden was pardoned, this too is meaningless. I knew Biden would pardon his son Any president would. Any president. That’s just how it is. I also knew Trump would prove himself just the same level of scuzz as Biden. And he has.
We don’t live in a white hat/black hate country. It’s all black.
Fauci is guilty of untold sufferings and death.
Pretty sure that is every president that kept him employed, including Trump .
“Fauci, believe it or not, committed no crime. ”
You are SO full of crap, Mr. I’m always right. Fauci clandestinely funded ‘gain of function’ “research” at Chapel Hill before it was sent off shore to China (and NO DOUBT Ukraine); that coming after if was (for public theater) ordered stopped by (of all people) obama. THEN Fauci funded that evil, now patently ILLEGAL ‘research’ (no doubt with obummer’s blessing) thru Eco Health Alliance with the odious Ralph Baric and Peter Daszik serving as facilitating bagmen….all 3 scumbags taking in copious amounts of money thru patents (one being a significant section of the lab-made ‘covid’ virus YEARS before 2019), and other misfeasance. Who the hell are you kidding, that “Fauci…committed no crime”. He’s been up to his beady eyeballs (which would be about 3′ 6″) in criminal activity since at least his AIDS malfeasence years….and he became wildly wealthy and powerful from it.
Go watch a little testimony from Dr. David Martin.
and that’s just for starters.
Susan,
GOF was not “clandestinely” funded by anyone. It started, was stopped and in 2017 started again- under Trump’s Orange Watch. All of these associations with Wuhan, Ukraine, Eco Health were all legal. Indeed, they went back a decade.
Donald Trump certainly didn’t think Fauci committed any crime. He made him a star again, after the AIDS fiasco. Put him on his Covid team, let Fauci control messaging.
Fauci lied to Congress, that’s a crime, ok. But as I said, if you throw him in the clink for that the entire building collapses and you have to do the same with Trump.
By the way, Covid 19 didn’t come from any “Gain of Function” lab. It’s impossible to create a live virus in a lab deliverable enough to the entire world. Any lethal virus would die out immediately as no one would be able to transmit it, and any virus capable of being spread worldwide would be so benign it would be …a cold. Which is what Coronaviruses are.
Covid 19 was a ghost to scare you into what the folks at WEF and the Deep State really wanted: the mRNA vaccine which Mr. Maga himself authorized, crowed about, still crows about and still think you need to get.
Dumping a bioweapon on the entire country and poisoning millions? THAT is a crime. And of course Fauci is all too happy to be the scapegoat, since the bigger villains, the ones doing the heavy lifting, like Trump, get away scot free.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane. This is an article, in December of 2017, or 10 months into Big Orange’s reign, discussing how the NIH (Fauci) lifted its moratorium on GOF research. Not only that, but the Department of Health and Human Services at the same time came up with funding guidelines for such research. Note, lifting a moratorium is not illegal. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/dual-use-research/feds-lift-gain-function-research-pause-offer-guidance
NIH (Fauci) is part of the Dept of HHS, which is part of the president’s oversight. The. President’s. Oversight.
Trump
If they did nothing wrong why they need a pardon?
Also, how do you pardon someone before an accusation and conviction?
Is this immunity from the law? Like the despicable pharmaceutical companies have? Even they have products for which they have no accountability.
You’re full of crap Mike…..educate yourself…..
https://www.infowars.com/posts/new-bioattack-incoming-dr-david-martin-issues-emergency-warning-the-biomedical-deep-state-has-openly-announced-their-intention-to-derail-the-incoming-trump-administration-by-releasing-another-biowe