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So we debated whether to call this hour one or
Hour two. I'm calling an hour too, because Hour one
was preempted by the inauguration of Donald Trump, and so
they had the you know, all the pageantry and uh,
you know, prayers and songs. It was all very good.
It was all very good. If you have an hour,
go back watch it. You'll enjoy it, I think. And
Donald Trump gave a speech as well, hitting a lot
of high points. And during that speech we found out
that there were a whole bunch of other pardons that
Joe Biden signed literally within minutes of him leaving the
White House, like physically leaving the White like what like
you're on your way to work and you're running late,
and you're like, oh, I forgot to sign that check.
Oh I forgot to sign that form. Let me you
rush in and you sign something real quick on your way,
literally racing out the door. He signed two more rafts
of pardons. One was for all of his family members
that were part of the Biden crime family. These were
the people who had all of the millions of dollars
washing through their bank accounts, the bag men, basically of
the operation. He pardoned let's see his brother, James, James's
wife Sarah Valerie Biden, John t Owens, and Francis W.
Biden full and unconditional pardons for any nonviolent offenses against
the United States which they may have committed or taken
part in during the period from January one, twenty fourteen,
so that was during Obama's presidency, while Joe was veep
through the date of this pardon, which was like eleven
fifty nine and fifty seconds or something today, and then
the second raft. And I confess I don't know these names,
but Darryl Chambers, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who is now apparently deceased.
This is a posthumous pardon. Ravi dath Rogbeer Don Leonard
Scott Jr. And Kemba Smith Pradia. Why who are they?
The following named persons for those offenses against the United
States has contained in their respective petitions to the Department
of Justice, doesn't I don't know who these are except
that they might be actually DOJ employees. So on the
way out the door, even more pardons. This is on
top of the pardons that he gave to Fauci and
Millie and the j six committee members and by the way,
the US Supreme Court. Because Joe Biden in his comments
about this, let me see, I wasn't gonna I was
gonna actually get to this later. But the pardoning of
his family came down during the inauguration, and so I'm
shifting gears, calling an audible as it were. The president, well,
the former president. Oh, that feels good to say. Former
President Joe Biden in the statement that is Staffers wrote,
I can only assume say 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. See, he's
saying that they didn't do anything wrong, And just because
I'm writing these pardons and signing these partons doesn't mean
they did anything wrong. They're not admitting to doing anything wrong.
We're just really afraid that that tyrant Donald Trump is
going to use the government to go after his political
adversaries like I did. However, the US Supreme Court back
in nineteen fifteen, in a case Verdick versus United States,
here's what the Supreme Court said about pardons. Quote. A
pardon carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a
confession of it. What does that mean. It means that
if the pardon is issued, there is an it is imputed,
it is implied, it is assumed, it is conveyed. It's
understood that there was guilt, that somebody did something for
which a pardon would be necessary, and acceptance of the
pardon is a confession of the guilt. That's the reason
you get the pardon. It's the reason you take the pardon.
The Ford White House, you'll recall when it pardoned Nixon
had determined that Nixon's acceptance of the pardon was an
admission of guilt. That's all according to James Rosen, who's
the White House correspondent over at NEWSMAX. But the Supreme
Court ruling is Burdick versus Us from nineteen fifteen, and
we knew this was gonna happen. It had to have.
After the pardons, I mean he he went through what
it was like, twenty five hundred pardons the other day,
more pardons and commutations than any other president. I think
maybe all presidents combined at this point, and maybe maybe
from now on, no more pardons in the last year
of office. How about that. If you want to do
a bunch of pardons, you don't get to do it
on your way out the door when you've lost in
sort of this zombie late term lane duck presidency. If
you want to write pardons, you do them in the
first three years, three and a half years, even like
I'm open to negotiate the deadline, but it should be
before the election. So this way, you don't get to
do this kind of stuff anymore. From the party that
claimed no one is above the law. What the hell
do you think Donald Trump and every other president now
is empowered to do preemptive pardons for family members, the
very thing you guys railed against for years, promising us
that this is a Donald Trump would do because he's
a tyrant and he's corrupt. But it's different when our
guy does it. Because Democrat, I've got let's see here. Okay,
here's first up, let's play this one. This is yeah,
so this is now Senator then Congressman Adam shift.
Speaker 2: For brains shift with you responding what you just heard there, Well,
let me just say, with respect to some of the
nominees like cash Betel, this is someone in my view
who is not qualified to be FBI director and someone
who claimed, for example, that he wanted to shut down
FBI headquarters early in his tenure and.
Speaker 3: Open a museum to the deep state. So this is
a conspiracy theorist. It's also someone I think who demonstrated
sadly a principle of the first Trump administration, and that is,
you rise to the level of your sycophancy, and the
bigger of the sick event, the higher you rise.
Speaker 4: He's risen pretty high. But that's not what we're looking for.
Speaker 5: How about the question about the January sixth pardons.
Speaker 4: Well, greatly concerned about it.
Speaker 3: First of all, that he could pardon people that beat
police officers, gouge them, bear sprayed them, but also even
beyond that, just the general message it would send George
that his first pardons are going to go to people
who sought, through the use of violence at the Capitol
to stop the peaceful transfer of power that played some
role in that. Really, that's who he wants to pardon.
The American people, I think voted for him in part
because they wanted something done about crime, not because they
wanted to see him pardon criminals attacking the government. They
want something done about fentanyl, they want something done about
California smash and grab robberies. This is not what they
had in mind. Not political revenge, not rewarding people who
participated in an insurrection to stop the transfer of power.
Speaker 5: The President elect has also talked about prosecuting members the
Januator sixth Committee. Like you, I know you said you
don't want a preemptive pardon from President Biden. Is that
because you think that Trump administration will not actually prosecute what.
Speaker 3: The Trump administration will do. But it's for a couple
of reasons. First, those of us on the committee are
very proud of the work we did. We were doing vital,
quintessential oversight of a violent attack on the Capitol.
Speaker 4: But so I think it's unnecessary.
Speaker 3: But second, the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket
pardons on the way out of an administration, I think
as a president, we don't want to set.
Speaker 5: And you've communicated that to the president.
Speaker 3: President Biden communicated it both publicly and privately, to administration.
Speaker 1: To the administration, not Joe Biden, because as the New
York Times reported and confirming the Wall Street Journal reporting
and confirming what we all have been able to see
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says there at the end, the president of giving blanket pardons,
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This was the story that was released early this morning,
as were when I saw it right that there were
a bunch of pardons that went out the door earlier
this morning. But that wasn't the only one. It wasn't
the only pardons that Biden was signing. So the first
story that we got this morning was that Biden had
pardoned the science. That a wrestler from the eighties, the Science,
remember him, We remember he started off as a hero
and then he became a heel. That guy, No, doctor
Anthony Fauci.
Speaker 4: The science.
Speaker 1: I'm like the science and questioning means it's almost like
that they are they're ignoring the science. They're criticizing the science.
I am the science. And then there's General Mark Millie.
He got one too preemptively, as did members of the
House committee that investigated the January sixth attack on the Capitol,
according to the Associated Press, using the extraordinary powers of
his office in his final hours to guard against potential
revenge by the incoming Trump administration. So that's all you
need to say. Now, they didn't do anything wrong, but
I'm gonna give him some pardons because you know, somebody
could accuse them of doing something wrong, and I don't
know if they did anything wrong. I don't think they
did anything wrong. Surely they didn't do anything wrong. So
I'm going to protect them even if they did something
wrong for stuff that they may be investigated for that
they didn't do wrong. That's what Joe Biden did today
with Fauci Millie and the j six committee members, including
Adam Schiff for brains. So he said he didn't want one,
but he got one. I don't know if you can
even refuse them, but accepting one, the Supreme Court says,
is is tacitly an admission of the guilt, which is
why you take the pardon the decision by the Bidens, Well, yes,
by the Bidens. Comes after Donald Trump warned of an
enemy's list filled with those who have crossed him politically
or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to
overturn the twenty twenty election loss and his ora. Well
wait a minute, No, the J six people are accused
of destroying evidence. That's what they're accused of doing. And
so now if they did illegally destroy evidence, they get
to skate on that. See that's the problem here. All right.
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is a radio guy, and he tweeted Joe Biden left
as he served a first order scoundrel and an unmitigated fraud.
Joe Biden has always been this guy, and the people
that surround him knew it and were of like mind.
The pardons that he just dished out to his family
members and to Fauci and to Mark Milly, who it
like one could interpret General Mark Milly's actions to be treason.
This what Milly did in talking to foreign adversarial powers, saying,
don't worry, don't worry, I got you know, I'll prevent
Trump from doing stuff. That's the commander in chief. You're
talking about and you saying that you're going to disobey
his orders and you'll work around him and you'll make
sure that whatever he wants done, he's not going to
get done. Don't worry, we're stable. Like that's that's not
your job. You're not supposed to be doing that. I'm
surprised that he didn't pardon the fifty one former intelligence
and current you know, intelligence people that signed on to
that letter after the Hunter Biden laptop, which, by the way,
just a quick reminder on that, because it seems like
a lot of people forget this or may have never
heard it. The Hunter Biden laptop had that had had
Hunter Biden not left that laptop at that shop in
Delaware and then never went back to pick it up,
even though the shop owner said, hey, your laptop's done,
we finished preparing it, and Hunter never came back for it,
and by rule, it then becomes property of the shop,
and that shop owner then turned it over to authorities.
Had Hunter Biden never dropped that laptop, we would never
know about all of the bank accounts, which is why
Joe pardoned his family. It was all of these family
members that had the bank accounts where the money was
being washed through. They had more than two dozen bank
accounts and LLC's that they had set up for all
these different you know, fake reasons. I would submit and
then they would pay one LLC would pay, another would
pay another would pay another. Put it into this account,
move it to that account. And the reason you do
that is to mask it. It's to money launder. And
without knowing all of the LLCs and all of the
bank accoun and being able to track all of the transfers,
you would never know that, and you would never know
the bank accounts and the LLCs. Had Hunter Biden not
left his laptop at that shop. The pardons announced well.
The first round of pardons were announced just hours before
the end of Biden's presidency. Have been the subject of
heated debate for months at the highest levels of the
White House. It's customary for a president to grant clemency
at the end of his term, but those acts of
mercy are usually offered to Americans who have been convicted
of crimes. Convicted of crimes, Biden has used the power
in the broadest and most untested way possible. This is
the ap Tell me more about the destruction of norms,
Democrats and you never Trump Republicans. Tell me more about
how Trump is the one who destroyed the norms to
pardon people who have not even been investigated for anything.
The decision lays the groundwork for an even more expansive
use of pardons by Trump and future presidents. See, that's
the thing about slippery slopes. They are slopes, and they
are slippery, and once you start down them, you can't
stop because they're slippery. Tough to regain your footing on
a slippery slope. There's a raison. The cliche exists. People.
There are fears that Trump or future presidents could use
the promise of a blanket pardon to encourage allies to
take actions they might otherwise resist for fear of running
a foul of the law. Right, which, right, that's the
whole point. That's why you don't do this is because
now Trump could turn around and say, everybody in my administration,
you do whatever the hell you want, and don't worry
before I leave office. Blanket pardons for everybody, Like what
if you done Joe, Well, Joe that probably doesn't know,
Joe's probably unaware. I've got a clip from Mike Johnson
will play in the next hour. It's unclear whether those
pardoned by Biden would need to apply for the clemency
or even accept the offer at all. By the way,
the JAY sixers apparently all did the JA six committee members.
Any acceptance could be seen as a tacit admission of
guilt or wrongdoing. Well, that's what the Supreme Court ruling
talked about. They said, it is any acceptance could be
seen Oh I read that already, sorry, validating years of
attacks by Trump and his supporters, even though those who
have been pardoned have not been formally accused of any crimes. Right,
So this is about branding. This is about protection and branding.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: You protect them from any investigation into what they may
or may not have done, and then you get to say, well,
they were never even investigated. Well yet, because you pardoned
them in order to short circuit the investigative process, which,
by the way, I did get a message here from Mike.
Do you think an investigation into Fauci should happen anyway?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 1: We and history deserve the truth. I agree. And here's
the nice part about a pardon. Though he can't claim
the fifth nobody can claim the fifth anymore. And by
the way, Joe Biden can still be impeached. He's not
in office, but you can still do it. Bring them
back in, Bring in every one of the family members
that got pardons. There is no Fifth Amendment protection anymore.
They are compelled to testify. There is no self incrimination
that is on the table. That's the thing. When you
get a pardon, you no longer can self incriminate because
you have a pardon. These are exceptional circumstances, and I
cannot in good conscience do nothing Biden said, or whoever
wrote the statement, even when individuals have done nothing wrong
and in fact have done the right thing and will
ultimately be exonerate from what, exonerated from what. The mere
fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations
and finances. Yeah, tell that to Donald Trump, right, so
he is well aware of the cost of simply being accused.
Mark Milly, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
called Trump a fascist and detailed Trump's conduct around the
deadly j six, twenty twenty one insurrection. He said he
was grateful to Biden for a pardon so he no
longer has to worry about retribution for doing back channel
discussions with our foreign adversaries, saying basically, he's in charge.
Don't worry. I'm in charge. I won't let all of
this stuff happen. This is a decision to break with
political norms. Biden has said the president has set the
presidential record for more individual pardons and commutations than anyone else.
He announced Friday he'd be commuting sentences of almost twenty
five hundred people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. He previously
announced he was commuting the sentences of thirty seven out
of the forty people on federal death row, so it's
not just nonviolent people. He converted their punishments to life
imprisonment because you know Trump's coming in and he may
put them to death. By the way, from the Constitution,
I mean, whoever looks at that anymore, that the president
shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses
against the United States. We don't even know what these
offenses were. This is like, I'm not even sure that
a preemptive pardon is a thing, right, I mean, like
I guess, I guess maybe it is. I don't know.
I'm not a constitutional lawyer. But also no, it's all
a distraction on Twitter, that's her name. It's all a distraction.
I'm sure little granddaughter Navy received no pardon. Yes, you
are correct, no pardon for her. I mean she's only
like three, so and I don't even know if she's
related to the Bidens. They never, they never acknowledge her.
So I Reuter's reported in November that the Trump transition
team was drawing up a list of military officers seen
as connected to Millie to be fired. So a lot. So,
So not only are they worried about getting fired, they're
worried that they may have committed They may have committed
as a as George Bluth said, some light treason maybe maybe,
So just blanket pardons for everybody on the way out
the door, Norms restored. All right, if you're listening to
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more transparent. Jake Tapper posted on Twitter on December third,
twenty twenty. Okay, so think back December third, twenty Okay,
So Trump loses the election in November, We're waiting for
Biden to come in. This is before January sixth, okay,
and President elect Biden sits for an interview on CNN
with Tapper, and he asks Biden about reports that Trump
is considering preemptive pardons, and Joe Biden says, he guess
that Mary, and that means quote, it concerns me in
terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how
the rest of the world looks at us as a
nation of laws and justice. And then he does it himself.
He turns around and does it himself. Four years later,
there is a writer. He goes by the Twitter handle
pundit Review. He's out of Massachusetts, and he says, why
did Biden part in his family? Because everything the GOP
investigated and claimed about the Biden crime family was true.
Nine Biden family members, including the president's granddaughter, have received
money from foreign entities, totaling over twenty million dollars. That's
why you know who did not get a pardon though,
doctor Jill, Doctor Jill Biden did not get a pardon. Vinman,
remember that guy who leaked the information about the perfect
phone call with Ukrainian President Vladimir or Voldemir whatever. He's
going by the guy without the collared shirts everywhere. That guy,
Alexander Vinman his wife Rachel posted on threads, which is
a social media platform that nobody really uses, but it
was supposed to take out Twitter but it didn't. But
I think that's the Facebook or the Metta version of
Twitter that's probably now being cannibalized by Blue Sky. So
Rachel Vinmann posted whatever happens to my family know this.
No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to
describe the level of betrayal and hurt. I feel you
should talk with Donald Trump. I bet he feels a
little bit of that betrayal from your husband. And by
the way, at the time, I said that that phone
call did not warrant impeachment at the time, okay me,
who is you know, not a defender of Donald Trump
and all the things he says and does, which I'm
sure is now going to tick some people off in
the next four years. Wait till I get to the
TikTok stuff. But even I could could recognize what I
was seeing in reading through the transcript of that phone call.
We did a theatrical performance. My producer read read one part,
I read the other part. I forget. I think I
think I did the Ukrainian. I think I did Zelensky
because I could do the accent better. Anyway, that was
not an impeachable phone call, but that's what Democrats wanted
to do. Also, somebody else who didn't get a pardon
Francis Collins, former head of the NIH Right, one of
Fauci's cohorts. There. This was the guy that sang the
song to the two you Like, rewrote the words to
Somewhere over the Rainbow to Someday after the pandemic as
part of his retirement. Gig awful, just awful. He did
not get a pardon, So I wonder can you bring
him in and make Fauci testify against him? I think so.
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