White House Considers Preemptively Pardoning Biden’s Allies

United States President Joe Biden’s administration is looking into preemptively pardoning people President-elect Donald Trump may investigate, Politico reported Wednesday.

Why it matters: Pardoning people for undiscovered crimes is a controversial matter, as seen in Biden’s recent pardon of his son. The fact that the White House is considering this indicates the administration knows those in question have committed crimes.

In 2020, msnbc’s Joy Reid said:

The presidential pardon was originally meant to grant the president the power to temper justice with mercy. It was not enshrined in our Constitution so that a dishonorable man could reward his criminal allies, friends and family for their corrupt practices.

Full story: Mr. Trump often promised to “drain the swamp” while on the campaign trail. This likely includes punishing those guilty of treason.

Now that he is on his way back to the White House, many in the “swamp” are afraid. Some possible pardon recipients include:

• Adam Schiff
• Anthony Fauci
• Liz Cheney

According to reports, Biden has not been included in the major conversations about these pardons.

End-of-administration pardons are always politically fraught. But President George H.W. Bush’s intervention to spare former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Bill Clinton’s pardon of financier and donor Marc Rich seem quaint compared with what Biden officials are grappling with ….
—Politico

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