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2025-01-20 Government Corruption
Biden Pardons Fauci, Milley, Cheny, etc
[WTAE, h/t Twitchy] President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the extraordinary powers of his office in his final hours to guard against potential "revenge" by the incoming Trump administration.

Courtesy of Mike Kozlowski, Hot Air has a brief but interesting analysis of the impact and efficacy of these particular pardons.
Posted by Bobby 2025-01-20 08:27|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top

#1 Not Merrick B. Garland? For failure to destroy Trump before the election?
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-20 08:42||   2025-01-20 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 ...That son of a bitch.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-01-20 08:44||   2025-01-20 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 President Biden Preemptively Pardons General Milley, Anthony Fauci, and January 6 Committee Members

They may not be indicted but the Discovery process can be painfully grueling.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-20 08:47||   2025-01-20 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Not Merrick B. Garland?

‘Good Riddance’: AG Merrick Garland Roasted After Video of Him Leaving DOJ Goes Viral
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-20 08:56||   2025-01-20 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Plenty more scumbaggery can be projectile vomitted before 12:00 EST.
Posted by hyper 2025-01-20 08:57||   2025-01-20 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 The most obvious obstruction of justice in the history of the USA.
Posted by Airandee 2025-01-20 09:06||   2025-01-20 09:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Good news is the SOB never made it to the Supreme Court.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-20 09:12||   2025-01-20 09:12|| Front Page Top

#8 I think we need a Constitutional Amendment to forbid pardoning of uncharged crimes.
Posted by Glenmore 2025-01-20 09:18||   2025-01-20 09:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Those who worked under the Pardoned may be at risk legally. Why not go after the low fruit?
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-01-20 09:28||   2025-01-20 09:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Biden has no pardoned or commuted over 8000.

FDR did about 3700

Obama did about 2000

Andrew Johnson pardoned about 650 regular and about 7000 to ex Confederate soldiers and Confederate govt officials.

Carter pardoned several hundred thousand draft evaders but not by name.

Since Carter and except for Obama, no President has issued more than about 500.
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-01-20 09:34||   2025-01-20 09:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Copied from Instapundit:
The question of whether or not Biden can pardon himself is still up in the air. There is still a period of time left for him to pardon Kamala Harris, resign his presidency and for the newly selected President Harris to then pardon former president Biden.
Posted by q 2025-01-20 09:40||   2025-01-20 09:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Yah know, pardons can be undone. It has just been curtesy that they haven't by other presidents. Time to go after these fuckers and Biden too.

Hang them all
Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-20 09:44||   2025-01-20 09:44|| Front Page Top

#13 James Kunstler beat me to it by a few hours: "As I write, long before dawn, “Joe Biden” remains President of the US. You must wonder, as the hours dwindle to noon, what pardon power magic he’s saving for the final minutes of his term, while the whole nation is distracted by the spectacle in the Capitol Rotunda"
Posted by q 2025-01-20 09:46||   2025-01-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Is there proof it was actually Biden that signed the pardons?
Posted by hyper 2025-01-20 09:54||   2025-01-20 09:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Another copied post from IP:
One option to deal with Fauci, I copied this from the Maryland State Medical Board:
"License Number: D0004034 Dr. Anthony S Fauci
License Type: Physician-Medical Doctor
License Status: Active
License Issued: 10/02/1969 License Expiration: 09/30/2026"
If Fauci accepts his 'pardon,' thereby admitting he committed a crime, he can still be sanctioned by the MD medical board - cancelling his license for an admission to crimes. This is entirely a state issue and not one covered by a federal pardon. There is no federal licensure for physicians, last I checked.
Posted by q 2025-01-20 10:10||   2025-01-20 10:10|| Front Page Top

#16 They need to charge them, get the Supreme's involved and get rid of pre-emptive pardons. If it fails charge some more until the figure out the argument to abolish it.
Posted by jefe101 2025-01-20 10:14||   2025-01-20 10:14|| Front Page Top

#17 A bit of humor from Russia:

Posted by badanov 2025-01-20 10:32||   2025-01-20 10:32|| Front Page Top

#18 Guess, what Bad? It ain't funny.
Posted by Mercutio 2025-01-20 11:29||   2025-01-20 11:29|| Front Page Top

#19 He can pardon federal crimes. On going grand jury in Florida on COVID response is a state issue. IIRC recently SCOTUS ruled that state and federal prosecutions around the same action(s) do not constitute double jeopardy. There is also civil liabilities routes to seek redress.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-20 11:36||   2025-01-20 11:36|| Front Page Top

#20 #10 So basically, the entire Derp State.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2025-01-20 11:59||   2025-01-20 11:59|| Front Page Top

#21 President Biden pardons his siblings just minutes before leaving office
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-20 12:39||   2025-01-20 12:39|| Front Page Top

#22 This is an interesting point:



Separately, while Mercutio has a point, I can see how a Russian would find badanov’s cartoon funny, after all the abuse they took from America’s deep state about that particular lie.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-20 13:19||   2025-01-20 13:19|| Front Page Top

#23 President Biden pardons his siblings just minutes before leaving office

So basically, the entire Biden Crime Family receives a Get Out of Jail card. This is after passing Go and collecting their $200. It is good to be King!
Posted by SteveS 2025-01-20 13:48||   2025-01-20 13:48|| Front Page Top

#24 Pardon aside - as Commander, which Trump is, he still should be able to recall Milley and discipline him via NJP. Pardon should not apply since it is non-judicial, crime not involved, strip him of his rank and clearance at a minimum. Make him thoroughly unemployable to the MIC.
Posted by Tennessee 2025-01-20 14:16||   2025-01-20 14:16|| Front Page Top

#25 We shall soon be entertained by the Legal/Political classes opining upon the legality of "preemptive" pardons.

I suspect they are not and would not be troubled to see a number of recipients swaying in the wind.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-01-20 14:28||   2025-01-20 14:28|| Front Page Top

#26 ^Ever thought that USA has too many lawyers?
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-01-20 14:38||   2025-01-20 14:38|| Front Page Top

#27 Subpoena them all to testify, under oath, and spill the beans. Since they cannot be prosecuted they no longer have a 5th Amendment privilege. So either they lie, and get prosecuted for perjury, refuse to talk, and be held in criminal contempt, or spill the beans so that everyone knows exactly why they needed pardons.

I also really like the idea of rolling up all the underlings and marching them off to jail. In their thousands.
Posted by Angstrom 2025-01-20 14:47||   2025-01-20 14:47|| Front Page Top

#28 If Biden can pardon a non-crime, why can't Trump rescind them?
Posted by Heriberto Stalin4463 2025-01-20 14:54||   2025-01-20 14:54|| Front Page Top

#29 I particularly like the solution found in comment #24.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-20 15:00||   2025-01-20 15:00|| Front Page Top

#30 Declaring the cartels terrorists is a stroke of genious. Moving them away from the border will greatly assist the problems we are having with Mexico.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-20 15:06||   2025-01-20 15:06|| Front Page Top

#31 Besoeker, that was my first thought when I saw it. And make sure he cannot ever get a clearance. That should keep him out of any jobs that need one.
Posted by Rambler 2025-01-20 15:08||   2025-01-20 15:08|| Front Page Top

#32 /\ Yes, "suspended" pending final investigation is nearly as good as revocation.

A Security Clearance is a "condition of employment" in D.C.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-20 15:11||   2025-01-20 15:11|| Front Page Top

#33 By classifying the cartels as terrorist organization they become a belligerent. IAW the Hague Convention of 1907 "a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteractions."
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-20 15:25||   2025-01-20 15:25|| Front Page Top

#34 Maybe the Best Monday Ever!
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-01-20 16:35||   2025-01-20 16:35|| Front Page Top

#35 Couldn't Milley now be compelled to testify on the exact nature of his communication with the CCP in all details, by Congress or as part of a prosecutor's investigation into related wrongdoing by parties who weren't pardoned.

I reckon he didn't just personally dial Zhongnanhai and said "Hello Jinping!" a la Dr Strangelove, so others would have been involved.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-01-20 17:27||   2025-01-20 17:27|| Front Page Top

#36 #27 Angstrom - excellent!
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-20 18:22||   2025-01-20 18:22|| Front Page Top

#37 Via AOSHQ - Milley's portrait removed from Pentagon?
Posted by Frank G 2025-01-20 19:26||   2025-01-20 19:26|| Front Page Top

#38 2014 - That year sure was something. Just ask Hunter.
Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-20 23:21||   2025-01-20 23:21|| Front Page Top

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