As past President Joe Biden made his return from business, he issued a series of provocative proactive clemency. He gave the first people to Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and users of the January 6 Select Committee. It’s been rumored for some time that Biden was going to accomplish this, and it was n’t especially disturbing that he waited until absolutely his last day in business to do so.
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But the proactive clemency did n’t stop it. Mere days before Donald Trump was set to take the oath of office, Biden granted yet another round of clemency — this occasion to people of his own home. The clemency felt like a beautiful entrance that members of his family committed atrocities and that Joe felt obliged to protect his family members before losing his political forgive power.
I dare say it was the whole point of his decision to run for leader in the first place. But these preventative pardons when once expose the obvious duplicity of Democrats and their propensity to accuse Republican of offences that they themselves are innocent of.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif. ) has been outspoken in the past about political clemency, especially during Trump’s second term.
“If the President concerns a pardon in a situation in which he or his family are implicated, the American people need to know whether it is part of an attempt to obstruct justice, ” Schiff said again in 2018 when he’d proposed new regulations to reform political forgive power. “This bill would make that possible and serve as a powerful deterrent. ”
If the President issues a pardon in a case in which he or his family are implicated, the American people need to know whether it is part of an attempt to obstruct justice. This bill would make that possible and serve as a powerful deterrent. pic. twitter. com/kvIeORqvC3— Adam Schiff ( @AdamSchiff ) April 19, 2018
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Schiff continued to pursue the issue of abusing presidential pardon powers during Trump’s first term.
“The power to pardon can be used to right a wrong, give people a second chance, or provide leniency when it’s deserved, ” he said in a post on X back in 2020. “Or, if you’re Trump, it can be abused to reward a crony who lied to cover up your misconduct. We must prevent future abuse of the pardon power. And we will. ”
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It’s an ironic statement because had Democrats reformed presidential pardon powers when they had the presidency, House, and Senate ( as they did from January 2021 to January 2023, Joe Biden would n’t have been able to abuse the pardon the way he has since the 2024 election. Schiff continued this crusade through the end of Trump’s first term.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly abused the pardon power to reward friends and protect those who covered up for him, ” he said mere weeks after the 2020 election after Trump pardoned Michael Flynn who was ensnared in the bogus Russian collusion hoax.
Have you seen the reaction — or lack thereof — from Schiff about the preemptive pardons Biden issued today?
Spoiler alert: you haven’t because he’s said nothing. Schiff’s silence on Biden’s 11th-hour pardons is deafening but not unexpected. In addition to being a critic of alleged pardon abuse, Schiff received a preemptive pardon as a member of the partisan January 6 committee.
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And in December 2020, Schiff said that he agreed that no innocent person would ever get a preemptive pardon.
December, 2020. Joy Reid: Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who is an innocent person?
Adam Schiff: No.
Today Adam Schiff got a preemptive pardon. pic. twitter. com/s83ghqk0rs
— MAZE ( @mazemoore ) January 20, 2025
Sure, it’s inauguration day, and maybe other issues are getting more coverage— but we’ll have to see if the media call him out for this and what crazy explanation he’ll give. One thing is for sure: it ’s impossible to ignore the double standard at play when Democrats are always mum about shady actions when they’re committed by members of their own party.
