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President Biden considers preemptive #pardons amid concerns over Trump revenge tour, encouraged by lawmakers, alarmed by Trump's repeated past threats to persecute his perceived political "enemies," - e.g. Gen. Mark Milley, Liz Cheney, Dr. Fauci.
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President Biden considers preemptive pardons amid concerns over Trump revenge tour
Senior aides to Joe Biden are discussing potential preemptive pardons for individuals they fear Trump could target in his next White House., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
…Never before has a #POTUS issued mass #pardons of govt ofcls for fear a successor would seek to prosecute them out of…vindictiveness.
But the choices of #PamBondi, fmr FL AG & #Trump surrogate, to run #DOJ & #KashPatel, fmr Trump aide & #FarRight provocateur, to be director of the #FBI have put the issue front & center. Patel has vowed to “come after” Trump’s critics & even published a list of ~60 people he considered “members of the executive branch deep state” as the appendix to a 2023 book.
The discussion of blanket #pardons, reported earlier by Politico, remains primarily at a staff level although #POTUS #Biden has talked about it with senior members of the team…. It comes after Biden pardoned his son Hunter to spare him from prison on gun & tax charges. The White House declined to comment on Thursday.
#Biden’s staff is debating whether he should issue blanket #pardons for a swath of #Trump’s perceived enemies to protect them from the “retribution” he has threatened after he takes office….
The idea would be to pre-emptively extend executive clemency to a list of current & former government officials for any possible *crimes* over a period of years, effectively short-circuiting the next president’s promised campaign of reprisals.
