Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons despite warnings from Democrats, including himself

High profile and former Democrats President Bidenhimself, warned about blanket and preemptive pardons before Biden finally granted passes to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and their family members at the eleventh hour of his administration.

“The precedent of giving general pardons, preventive general pardons at the exit of an administration, I think, is a precedent that we do not want to establish,” now the senator. Adam Schiff warned on ABC’s “This Week” in December.

Biden ended his term in the Oval Office on Monday, when he was president donald trump sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. But hours before the inauguration, the White House announced pardons for both Fauci and Milley and those involved in the Jan. 6 select committee investigation, though those people were not identified by name.

And just 22 minutes before leaving office, Biden also pardoned his family, including his brother James B. Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens, brother-in-law John T. Owens and brother Francis W. Biden. The former president had previously granted a general pardon to his adult son, Hunter Bidenafter being convicted in two separate federal cases last year.

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“My family has been subjected to relentless attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me, the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” Biden said in a statement. to pardon his family. .

Speculation had grown that Biden would issue blanket pardons and preemptive pardons to those seen as Trump’s political enemies, such as the former Wyoming representative. Liz Cheneyas well as Milley and Fauci and members of the Biden family.

Democrats ranging from former President Bill Clinton to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., warned Biden against issuing such pardons in the final days of his administration.

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“If President Biden wanted to talk to me about it, I would talk to him about it. But I don’t think I should be giving public advice about the power of forgiveness. I think it’s also, it’s a very personal thing, but it is, I hope don’t do it,” Clinton said of preemptive pardons on “The View.”

Democratic Senator from Illinois Dick Durbin he also warned against such pardons in an interview with CNN last month, remarking, “when we talk about a preemptive pardon, where does it begin and where does it end?”

Klobuchar echoed that sentiment the same month.

“I’m not a fan of these (preemptive pardons),” he said. “I didn’t like the pardon of the president’s son. I didn’t think it was prudent. But I’m also very concerned about this idea of ​​preemptive pardons.”

Biden had also warned against preemptive pardons before taking office in 2020, at a time when there was speculation that Trump would pardon his children and personal lawyer. Rudy Giuliani.

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“I worry about what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world views us as a nation of law and justice,” Biden said in an interview with CNN in December 2020.

In the end, Trump did not pardon his adult children or the former mayor of New York City.

After the Jan. 6 11th-hour pardons for Milley, Fauci and select committee staff and family, political leaders and lawmakers criticized the decision, including Florida’s governor. Ron DeSantis.

“One of Biden’s biggest abuses of power was the executive force of mRNA injections (which Florida successfully blocked). Now, on his way out the door, Biden is pardoning the head of the this and so many other abuses. The swamp protects its own,” DeSantis, a Republican, said Monday.

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Fauci was the national spokesman for the nation’s pandemic response, including advising then-President Trump in 2020 on how to manage COVID-19 as it swept through communities.

But his favor with the president waned over time, with Trump slamming him and fellow pandemic task force adviser Dr. Deborah Birx as “two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover the his bad instincts and faulty recommendations.”

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Fauci said Monday that he was grateful for his pardon, though he stressed that he “has committed no crime.”

“I really appreciate the action President Biden took today on my behalf,” Fauci told ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent. Jonathan Carl.

“Let me be perfectly clear, Jon, that I have committed no crime, you know, and there is no possible grounds for any allegations or threats of investigation or criminal prosecution against me,” he continued.

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Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also has a contentious relationship with Trump and his supporters. He had called Trump a “fascist” and “the most dangerous person for this country” just before the November election.

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Trump has criticized Milley on several occasions since leaving office, including after the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, when he called Milley “a loser who embarrassed us in Afghanistan and elsewhere “.

After the election, Milley appeared to return to his characterization of Trump as a “fascist,” saying that America “will be fine” under the second Trump administration.

Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, and Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, were also targets of Trump’s ire. Biden did not mention Cheney or Thompson by name in his statement, instead pardoning “the staff who served on the Select Committee.”

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“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an admission that any person participated in any crime, nor should the acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt of any crime,” Biden said in a statement from the White House. “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”