It was disheartening news to many to read that Joe Biden, on his last day in office, decided to blow up the joint on the way out by issuing pardons to every freak who's mendaciously and malevolently targeted President Trump through politicized prosecutions, as well as his entire corrupt mafia of family members who've grown rich based on dirty business deals with enemy nations.
While blanket pardons of undeclared crimes over an extended period seem legally dubious and well outside the scope of presidential pardoning authority, the reality remains that for now, they're getting away with it. They're skating. Zero consequences for lying, stealing, and selling America down the river, and that's an outrage that cries out for remedy.
Rep. Chip Roy, a leading Republican from northern San Antonio, Texas, has some useful ideas for making lemonade out of these Biden lemons:
A truth commission wouldn't be a bad idea.
Because, as pardonee and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger explained it:
It would be pretty useful to hear him bawl for the cameras about why he accepted his from dirty Joe.
By legal definition, pardons require crimes committed:
And accepting a pardon requires admitting one had commited those crimes:
According to Grant Stinchfield, writing at GatewayPundit:
A Presidential Pardon does not take effect unless the suspect accepts it. That according to a little known, 1915 ruling from the Supreme Court, once accepted, the pardon serves as an “imputation of guilt,” or what’s more commonly known as an admission. Because accepting the pardon is “essential to it’s validity,” I am demanding the Biden family, Dr. Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the members of the J6 Committee and everyone else Biden unsurprisingly pardoned declare their acceptance of the pardon publicly. Because, according to the Supreme Court, it would also serve as a declaration of guilt.
So ...
Mark Levin even has a few questions for pardonee Liz Cheney:
If they've accepted the pesidential pardons, they have no right to 'take the fifth' to silence to avoid self-incrimination. If the congressional subpoenas are enforceable, they would have to testify as to why they got those pardons, which means they'll have to admit their wrongdoing, and that, in turn, could be exposed from the congressional bully pulpit.
While all of these people do need to be held up to public scorn, there is a higher aim than mere revenge, as the leftists and deep staters will argue.
Megan McArdle posts a tweet from someone who argues that a truth commission is key to finding out who was running the Biden White House given that it sure wasn't senile Joe, something that does need to be probed and exposed to prevent it from happening again:
Roy has several things in mind with this truth commision approach:
🚨 BREAKING: Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) plans to have Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, and Mark Milley testify before Congress to challenge the scope of Biden's "Pre-Crime" Pardons.
— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) January 20, 2025
This move tests the Constitutional limits of presidential pardons versus congressional oversight.… pic.twitter.com/BROKNkpGc7
That could be exceptionally useful. The other thing is, the pardons now leave the real villain here, Joe Biden himself, exposed to testimony about his treasonous and dimwitted behavior, contrary to everything the voters wanted. Let Joe take the heat and fire now all by himself, he's pardoned his confederates and enablers.
As for revenge, and all of Biden's claims, since deleted from his website, about fears of politicized prosecutions, all I can think is, well, who moved the Overton window over there? Who started it with lawfare, bringing charges in the most creative and never-tried ways possible? That's right, them. Now they're crying about 'revenge,' which is exactly what they need to prevent them from doing it again.
Yet Biden is trying to escape all consequences of his acts which he unjustly benefited from, along with his selected cronies.
Since it was so politicized, what's interesting now is the list of those who didn't get them.
This one's downright funny:
Sounds like they asked and got told 'no,' or in the case of the Vindmans, they just weren't important enough.
Now they realize they were suckers.
Some, such as Garland can safely be said to be on Biden's sh-- list for not taking down Trump, hard as they plotted, schemed and tried. Biden is known to have been angry at Garland for allowing Hunter Biden to be investigated for tax fraud and other matters. Hunter, of course, got his pardon, but not Merrick, which means there might be a pretty good tell-all book coming his way ahead of potential testimony if the prosecutors don't get him first.
Whatever it comes to, the ground is now hot under the feet of the pardonees. What indeed did they do over that long span of activities that got them their pardons?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/biden_s_latest_pardons_present_some_interesting_opportunities_and_rep_chip_roy_is_on_it.html
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All in the family
It was quite a political day, and I don't mean President Trump outlining all those executive orders coming. It was "banana republic day," and lots of family members got pardoned. What for? What crime did they commit? I don't know, but they got pardoned before a jury got to hear the evidence. Nice work if you can find it, to paraphrase my late father.
Here is the story:
President Biden pardoned his siblings just minutes before leaving office on Monday.
The pardon applies to James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden, the White House announced. The president argues that his family could be subject to "politically motivated investigations" after he leaves office.
"I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families," Biden said in a statement.
He said that he believes in the rule of law? Funny way of showing that.
The impact of these last-minute pardons will stain the Biden record like nothing else.
First, it will be a cloud over these family members even if they didn't break the law. People will always ask: Why did he pardon you if you did nothing wrong? That's a bad cloud to live under for the rest of your life.
Second, it devalues the pardon powers. What Founding Father had this in mind when they debated pardons a long time ago? It's disrespectful even if it's totally legal for the president to issue a pardon.
So goodbye President Biden. Enjoy the rest of your life. I wonder what your next family gathering will be like?
We thought that we'd remember President Biden for inflation and a chaotic border. As Steven Hayward posted today:
"Proof that Joe Biden really liked inflation is how he hyper-inflated the pardon power, which the founders intended for rare cases of misjudgment."
Hyperinflating the pardon powers? It's his legacy along with the price of eggs etc
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