Biden offers pre-pardons to Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, others in final hours
US President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and retired General Mark Miley, members of the House Committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on January 6, to prevent possible retaliation by the incoming Donald Trump administration.
Biden’s decision came after Trump in 2016 It comes after he warned of an enemies list filled with political cross-dressers for his attempts to reverse his 2020 election defeat and his role in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. 2021.
Trump has chosen cabinet members who have supported election fraud and vowed to punish those involved in efforts to impeach him.
“The granting of these pardons shall not be construed as implying that any individual has committed any wrongdoing, or that the acceptance thereof shall constitute an admission of guilt of any crime.” Biden said in a statement.. Our nation is indebted to these civil servants for their tireless commitment to our country.
It’s common for a president to grant pardons at the end of his term, but those pardons are granted to Americans convicted of crimes every day.
But Biden has used his power in the broadest and most unproven way possible: to pardon even those who have not yet been investigated. Pardoned persons come to plead guilty or plead guilty even if they have not been charged with any crimes.
“These are exceptional circumstances and I can’t in good conscience do anything about it,” Biden added.
Biden mentioned threats and intimidation
Fauci was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health for nearly 40 years and was Biden’s chief medical adviser until his retirement in 2022. Trump’s anger at Trump’s refusal to back up his baseless claims.
Even as tens of thousands of Americans are dying, they have become the target of intense hate and vitriol from those on the right who believe the mask mandates and other violations of their rights.
Fauci said he appreciated the gesture from Biden.
“I have committed no crime … and there is absolutely no basis for any criminal investigation or prosecution against me,” Fauci told ABC News.
Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called Trump a fascist and detailed Trump’s behavior around the deadly January 6, 2021, protests.
Since leaving office, Trump has vented his anger at what he says are perceived mistakes in social media posts and speeches, sometimes using blunt language and suggesting betrayal by the military leader. Miley said he had. He had to take safety precautions to enter retirement.
US President Joe Biden is said to be considering a pre-pardon for prominent critics, including Donald Trump, to prevent him from retaliation when he takes office.
“I don’t want to spend any remaining time that the Lord gives me fighting those who want petty punishments that are considered unjust,” Milley said in a statement. “I don’t want to put my family, friends and the people I’ve served through the division, expense and stress of the result.”
In Monday’s statement, Biden noted that the pardoned government employees faced “continuous intimidation and intimidation while performing their duties in good faith.”
Biden is extending amnesty to committee members and staffers Jan. 6, 2010 Republicans who angered Trump’s base by agreeing to join a bipartisan group including former House members Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Biden’s pardon also applies to U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan Police officers who testified before the committee.
Kinzinger told CNN earlier this month that while he understood the reasons for possible pre-pardons from Biden, he had no intention of accepting them.
“When you say sorry a second time, it looks like you’re guilty of something,” he said. “I am not guilty except for presenting the truth to the American people and embarrassing Donald Trump in the process.”
Trump has hinted at his own apology
Biden has been warning for years that Trump’s ascension to the presidency would be a threat to democracy. His decision to break with political norms with a preemptive pardon was driven by those concerns.
Biden set a presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations, a list that included a pardon for his son Hunter. The president announced on Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug crimes.
Biden announced that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, commuting their sentences to life in prison, just weeks before Trump, a proponent of expanding the death penalty, took office. During his first term in office, Trump presided over an unprecedented 13-year-old execution during the coronavirus pandemic.
When Trump took office on Monday, he considered pardoning some former “political prisoners” charged in the January 6, 2021, siege. JD Vance, Trump’s vice president, said those responsible for the violence during the Capitol riots “clearly” should not be pardoned.
More than 1,500 people have been charged with federal crimes since the attack, which injured more than 100 police officers and sent lawmakers into hiding. A female Trump supporter was shot and killed as a crowd tried to enter a restricted area.
Hundreds of people were charged with crimes for trespassing into the Capitol without causing destruction or violence. Others have been charged with serious crimes, including assaulting police officers. Leaders of the Oath Keepers and Pride Boys extremist groups were convicted of violent plots.
Biden is not the first to consider such a pardon.
President Gerald Ford issued a “full, free and absolute pardon” to former President Richard Nixon in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He believed that a possible hearing would “result in a protracted and divisive debate” and that Nixon had paid “an unprecedented penalty to leave the highest elected office in the United States.”