Good day all. Now that Joe Biden has issued a blanket pardon for his boy and bagman, Hunter “Hoovernose” Biden, Democrats are of two minds. Some on the left are furious that they have been pushing the Biden narrative that he wouldn’t issue a pardon, and then did it anyway.
Then you have others who are saying, “Hmm, considering everything we’ve done to Trump and the Republicans, we might need some of those pardons for ourselves.” Here are the details from the Washington Examiner:
Senate Democrats are weighing whether President Joe Biden should use his final moments of power to issue preemptive pardons to shield those who could receive political retribution from President-elect Donald Trump.
Now why would the Democrats be so concerned about Political Retribution from President Trump? While there are ways for President Trump, once he takes office to really put the screws to the Progressive liberal Democrats, that’s just politics.
The conversations come against the backdrop of Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail, in which he threatened to seek revenge on people he considers his political foes, referring to them as “enemies from within.”
These concerns have become even more elevated since announcing his picks for attorney general, Pam Bondi, and FBI director, Kash Patel, who have echoed Trump’s promises to imprison and prosecute political enemies who have skirted laws.
“There have certainly been discussions about this among some. How could there not be after all of the threats Trump has issued,” one Senate Democratic aide said, on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the situation.
Well, if you haven’t broken the law, you don’t have anything to worry about. You haven’t broken the law, have you?
Trump has circulated social media posts that call for the jailing of House lawmakers who investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, special counsel Jack Smith, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who oversaw Trump’s civil fraud case. The threats have also extended to Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Considering the flat out lawfare initiated by these people, not to mention everything that is currently publicly available, I can see why President Trump might be a bit annoyed. It doesn’t help that most of the people named have no idea what the word “Ethics” actually means.
He also has suggested that his former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley committed a crime once punishable by death, called Sen.-elect Adam Schiff a “sleazebag and traitor,” and insisted he and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi be “prosecuted.” He also targeted former Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who campaigned for Harris, suggesting he wanted military tribunals to punish her.
In the case of General Milley, he may very well have committed mutiny which was a death penalty offense. The reports of him contacting the People’s Republic of China and telling them that he would prevent President Trump from “Doing something” could even be construed as treason, if it it is true.
The Oversight committee that has been investigating the Pelosi initiated star chamber known as the January 6th committee has been releasing a number of very interesting factoids. Many of these interesting facts put Liz Cheney in a very bad light. While President Trump may have engaged in some hyperbole regarding a military tribunal, there might just be sufficient evidence of wrong doing by Liz Cheney to have her indicted.
Even before Biden issued a pardon for his son Hunter, who was criminally convicted this year on tax and gun charges, on Sunday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) publicly floated the idea that the president should consider “preemptive pardons” to people Trump has threatened to prosecute.
“I think that without question, Trump is going to try to act in a dictatorial way, in a fascistic way, in a revengeful first year at least of his administration toward individuals who he believes harmed him,” Markey said in an interview with Boston Public Radio.
“If it’s clear by Jan. 19 that that is his intention, then I would recommend to President Biden that he provide those preemptive pardons to people, because that’s really what our country is going to need next year,” he added.
First, Ed “Ice Cream Man” Markey is a complete scumbag. Second, as I understand it, accepting a pardon basically means that you are admitting you are guilty. Now I may be completely wrong on that since I’m not a lawyer so I’ll let those with legal training chime in down in the comments section.
In any case, if Dementia Joe were to sign a few dozen pardons for senior members of his maladministration, it’s going to look really bad for the Democrats. Basically, they will have admitted that they were breaking the law in order to railroad President Trump and his supporters into prison. That would be ruinous for the Democrat Party and it’s future elections.
Markey went on to cite Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal in 1974, calling it a way to “close that chapter” and move on “to an agenda that deals with ordinary families.”
There was a few problems with that comparison Ice Cream Man. While Nixon wasn’t part of the actual Watergate break in, he did try to cover it up and there were other things he did as well. He could have gone to prison. (Some say he should have, but that is something for the historians to debate) That pardon wrecked the Republican Party and led to the worst president of the 20th Century. Jimmy Carter.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said he’d need more time to think about whether Biden should pursue preemptive pardons, but emphasized he understood why the president recently worked to shield his son.
“Let me just talk about the one that’s on everybody’s mind, the one that’s relevant, given the lengths that Donald Trump has gone to politicize the Justice Department, I consider what was done by the president over the weekend as understandable,” Wyden said.
Well, I see that Wyden is projecting a bit here. It wasn’t President Trump who weaponized the DoJ in his first term, it was Obama and later Biden who did it. However, I think Wyden may understand just how bad the optics of a mass pardon of high ranking Democrats will look.
Several Democrats outside of Congress said the idea of Biden pardoning Trump’s political foes causes great concern about optics, especially since no one threatened has currently been charged with a crime.
“The left is hoping that Trump will not be permitted to engage in any interpretive acts for slights once felt in the past, is that possible? Not sure,” said Hank Scheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist. “But is it good to be politicizing the Department of Justice more than it has already been done — the answer is no.”
President Trump isn’t going to use the DoJ to “Get” his political opponents. Will the DoJ under Pam Bondi and Kash Patel take a good hard look at things? I would be shocked if they didn’t. It’s one of the reasons President Trump has selected them for their rolls. Now the question is, what will they find? Considering the blind panic from some of the Democrats, it sounds like they have a lot to worry about. I think the next few years are going to be very interesting, especially for the Democrat Party.
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