Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons of family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020.
Before President Biden issued pardons for his family members, the media took aim at President Trump for floating the idea of preemptive pardons before he left office in 2021.
The statement stressed that the 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.
President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump and members of his own family, using extraordinary executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor.
With just hours remaining in office, the president issued the pardons to protect people Donald Trump had threatened.
President Biden preemptively pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, and retired Gen. Mark Milley to protect them from Trump inquiries.
Just hours before leaving office Monday, Jan. 19, President Joe Biden pardoned potential targets of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, including Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,
Biden made it clear that his decision to preemptively pardon these individuals was no indication of any guilt on their part
With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
Among those who received pardons were Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president who served during the COVID pandemic, as well as Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was appointed by Trump in 2019 during his first administration.
There aren't many in politics as predictably appalling as Nancy Pelosi -- but Adam Schiff is close. On a day when newly inaugurated President Donald Trump used his new powers to pardon many of those swept up in the mania that followed the Capitol incursion of January 2021,