President Biden’s last-minute preemptive pardons of a few of President-elect Donald Trump’s largest critics, together with Gen. Mark Milley, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and Dr. Anthony Fauci, had been panned Monday on social media, hours earlier than he’ll exit the White Home.
“Joe Biden using his last day in office to pardon Liz Cheney, among others, is the perfect expression of the American political realignment and the rotted soul of the Democratic Party,” journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote.
Biden included anybody who served on the Home Jan. 6 committee within the listing of preemptive pardons. Milley accepted the pardon, whereas Fauci thanked the president however maintained that he did nothing improper.
NBC’s Kristen Welker reported that Trump texted her his response, which learn, “It is disgraceful. Many are guilty of MAJOR CRIMES!”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., stated, “If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal.”
Milley thanked Biden in an announcement on Monday.
“My family and I are deeply grateful for the President’s action today,” he wrote. “After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”
Biden issued a number of preemptive pardons to distinguished critics of Donald Trump on Monday. (Left to proper: (Picture by: William B. Plowman/NBC through Getty Pictures), (Picture by Mandel Ngan – Pool/Getty Pictures), (Picture by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures), (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures))
“I do not want to put my family, my friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense, and anxiety,” he added.
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“The swamp protects its own,” Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., wrote on social media.
Biden stated in an announcement that, “The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.”
Ex-Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill lamented the “sad” pardons throughout an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday and stated it set a precedent for the incoming president.
Biden was criticized for pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, in early December, after repeatedly telling People he believed within the rule of legislation and would settle for the result of his son’s trial.
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” the president stated in a December assertion about his son’s pardon.
“Biden pardoned Fauci. He says it’s not an admission of guilt. But if Fauci were innocent, no pardon would be needed. The evidence suggests Fauci helped create the Covid pandemic, and then covered it up. The investigation must go forward. All Covid & Fauci Files must be released,” Michael Shellenberger, the CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship and Free Speech on the College of Austin, wrote on social media.
“No one is above the law except people who get blanket, preemptive pardons,” commentator Mary Kathrine Ham wrote. “Ignominy to the end.”
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Notably, Particular Counsel Jack Smith, former FBI Director Christopher Wray and Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland usually are not included within the pardon, regardless of hypothesis that they could face backlash from the incoming administration.
Fox Information’ Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
