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We had a great debate before the program 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,560 began as to whether or not I would label this podcast, 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,640 because every hour we do live here gets turned into 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,280 a podcast and then gets pushed out on the podcasting platforms. 13 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,439 You can subscribe, by the way, it's totally free. It's 14 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,960 called the peatpod dot com and or WBT dot com. 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,600 But you can search for my name if you can 16 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,439 spell it, which a lot of people cannot. That's why 17 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,920 I got the peat pod as an additional URL, not 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 to be confused with the one out in Los Angeles. 19 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,000 So we debated whether to call this hour one or 20 00:01:02,039 --> 00:01:04,280 Hour two. I'm calling an hour too, because Hour one 21 00:01:04,359 --> 00:01:11,359 was preempted by the inauguration of Donald Trump, and so 22 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,799 they had the you know, all the pageantry and uh, 23 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:16,959 you know, prayers and songs. It was all very good. 24 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,719 It was all very good. If you have an hour, 25 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:22,400 go back watch it. You'll enjoy it, I think. And 26 00:01:22,519 --> 00:01:25,799 Donald Trump gave a speech as well, hitting a lot 27 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,040 of high points. And during that speech we found out 28 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:36,239 that there were a whole bunch of other pardons that 29 00:01:36,359 --> 00:01:41,599 Joe Biden signed literally within minutes of him leaving the 30 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,519 White House, like physically leaving the White like what like 31 00:01:44,719 --> 00:01:46,760 you're on your way to work and you're running late, 32 00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:50,920 and you're like, oh, I forgot to sign that check. 33 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:53,000 Oh I forgot to sign that form. Let me you 34 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:55,760 rush in and you sign something real quick on your way, 35 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,040 literally racing out the door. He signed two more rafts 36 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:06,439 of pardons. One was for all of his family members 37 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:10,599 that were part of the Biden crime family. These were 38 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,240 the people who had all of the millions of dollars 39 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:16,520 washing through their bank accounts, the bag men, basically of 40 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:22,639 the operation. He pardoned let's see his brother, James, James's 41 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,800 wife Sarah Valerie Biden, John t Owens, and Francis W. 42 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:39,360 Biden full and unconditional pardons for any nonviolent offenses against 43 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,800 the United States which they may have committed or taken 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,919 part in during the period from January one, twenty fourteen, 45 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:51,199 so that was during Obama's presidency, while Joe was veep 46 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:56,039 through the date of this pardon, which was like eleven 47 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:03,439 fifty nine and fifty seconds or something today, and then 48 00:03:03,479 --> 00:03:08,280 the second raft. And I confess I don't know these names, 49 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:15,960 but Darryl Chambers, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who is now apparently deceased. 50 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:22,599 This is a posthumous pardon. Ravi dath Rogbeer Don Leonard 51 00:03:22,599 --> 00:03:29,080 Scott Jr. And Kemba Smith Pradia. Why who are they? 52 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,280 The following named persons for those offenses against the United 53 00:03:32,319 --> 00:03:36,400 States has contained in their respective petitions to the Department 54 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:42,120 of Justice, doesn't I don't know who these are except 55 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:48,759 that they might be actually DOJ employees. So on the 56 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,719 way out the door, even more pardons. This is on 57 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,360 top of the pardons that he gave to Fauci and 58 00:03:54,520 --> 00:04:00,639 Millie and the j six committee members and by the way, 59 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:06,960 the US Supreme Court. Because Joe Biden in his comments 60 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,919 about this, let me see, I wasn't gonna I was 61 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:14,960 gonna actually get to this later. But the pardoning of 62 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,040 his family came down during the inauguration, and so I'm 63 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:26,360 shifting gears, calling an audible as it were. The president, well, 64 00:04:26,399 --> 00:04:29,639 the former president. Oh, that feels good to say. Former 65 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:34,600 President Joe Biden in the statement that is Staffers wrote, 66 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,720 I can only assume say that the issuance of these 67 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:41,120 pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any 68 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,959 individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued 69 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:51,399 as an admission of guilt for any offense. See, he's 70 00:04:51,399 --> 00:04:54,759 saying that they didn't do anything wrong, And just because 71 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:57,120 I'm writing these pardons and signing these partons doesn't mean 72 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,879 they did anything wrong. They're not admitting to doing anything wrong. 73 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:06,399 We're just really afraid that that tyrant Donald Trump is 74 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:10,759 going to use the government to go after his political 75 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,399 adversaries like I did. However, the US Supreme Court back 76 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:23,399 in nineteen fifteen, in a case Verdick versus United States, 77 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,800 here's what the Supreme Court said about pardons. Quote. A 78 00:05:26,879 --> 00:05:33,000 pardon carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a 79 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,120 confession of it. What does that mean. It means that 80 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,839 if the pardon is issued, there is an it is imputed, 81 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,319 it is implied, it is assumed, it is conveyed. It's 82 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:51,959 understood that there was guilt, that somebody did something for 83 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,839 which a pardon would be necessary, and acceptance of the 84 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:03,279 pardon is a confession of the guilt. That's the reason 85 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:07,319 you get the pardon. It's the reason you take the pardon. 86 00:06:09,879 --> 00:06:12,839 The Ford White House, you'll recall when it pardoned Nixon 87 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,079 had determined that Nixon's acceptance of the pardon was an 88 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:24,519 admission of guilt. That's all according to James Rosen, who's 89 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,480 the White House correspondent over at NEWSMAX. But the Supreme 90 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:34,920 Court ruling is Burdick versus Us from nineteen fifteen, and 91 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:39,480 we knew this was gonna happen. It had to have. 92 00:06:39,519 --> 00:06:43,120 After the pardons, I mean he he went through what 93 00:06:43,199 --> 00:06:46,759 it was like, twenty five hundred pardons the other day, 94 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,319 more pardons and commutations than any other president. I think 95 00:06:51,399 --> 00:06:57,759 maybe all presidents combined at this point, and maybe maybe 96 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,319 from now on, no more pardons in the last year 97 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,759 of office. How about that. If you want to do 98 00:07:02,879 --> 00:07:06,240 a bunch of pardons, you don't get to do it 99 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,800 on your way out the door when you've lost in 100 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:16,720 sort of this zombie late term lane duck presidency. If 101 00:07:16,759 --> 00:07:18,480 you want to write pardons, you do them in the 102 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:22,360 first three years, three and a half years, even like 103 00:07:22,759 --> 00:07:25,639 I'm open to negotiate the deadline, but it should be 104 00:07:25,639 --> 00:07:29,360 before the election. So this way, you don't get to 105 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:33,120 do this kind of stuff anymore. From the party that 106 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,000 claimed no one is above the law. What the hell 107 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,439 do you think Donald Trump and every other president now 108 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,639 is empowered to do preemptive pardons for family members, the 109 00:07:45,759 --> 00:07:52,199 very thing you guys railed against for years, promising us 110 00:07:52,199 --> 00:07:54,240 that this is a Donald Trump would do because he's 111 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:57,519 a tyrant and he's corrupt. But it's different when our 112 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:04,879 guy does it. Because Democrat, I've got let's see here. Okay, 113 00:08:04,959 --> 00:08:08,759 here's first up, let's play this one. This is yeah, 114 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:17,800 so this is now Senator then Congressman Adam shift. 115 00:08:16,399 --> 00:08:19,959 Speaker 2: For brains shift with you responding what you just heard there, Well, 116 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,680 let me just say, with respect to some of the 117 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,759 nominees like cash Betel, this is someone in my view 118 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:28,759 who is not qualified to be FBI director and someone 119 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,240 who claimed, for example, that he wanted to shut down 120 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:34,919 FBI headquarters early in his tenure and. 121 00:08:35,639 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 3: Open a museum to the deep state. So this is 122 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,799 a conspiracy theorist. It's also someone I think who demonstrated 123 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,559 sadly a principle of the first Trump administration, and that is, 124 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,120 you rise to the level of your sycophancy, and the 125 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,879 bigger of the sick event, the higher you rise. 126 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,399 Speaker 4: He's risen pretty high. But that's not what we're looking for. 127 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,519 Speaker 5: How about the question about the January sixth pardons. 128 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 4: Well, greatly concerned about it. 129 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,879 Speaker 3: First of all, that he could pardon people that beat 130 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:06,960 police officers, gouge them, bear sprayed them, but also even 131 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,919 beyond that, just the general message it would send George 132 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,159 that his first pardons are going to go to people 133 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,559 who sought, through the use of violence at the Capitol 134 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:19,879 to stop the peaceful transfer of power that played some 135 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,759 role in that. Really, that's who he wants to pardon. 136 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,159 The American people, I think voted for him in part 137 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,360 because they wanted something done about crime, not because they 138 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:32,879 wanted to see him pardon criminals attacking the government. They 139 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,679 want something done about fentanyl, they want something done about 140 00:09:35,799 --> 00:09:38,919 California smash and grab robberies. This is not what they 141 00:09:38,919 --> 00:09:43,200 had in mind. Not political revenge, not rewarding people who 142 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,120 participated in an insurrection to stop the transfer of power. 143 00:09:47,159 --> 00:09:49,399 Speaker 5: The President elect has also talked about prosecuting members the 144 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,159 Januator sixth Committee. Like you, I know you said you 145 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:55,559 don't want a preemptive pardon from President Biden. Is that 146 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,200 because you think that Trump administration will not actually prosecute what. 147 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 3: The Trump administration will do. But it's for a couple 148 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,440 of reasons. First, those of us on the committee are 149 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:09,480 very proud of the work we did. We were doing vital, 150 00:10:09,879 --> 00:10:13,080 quintessential oversight of a violent attack on the Capitol. 151 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 4: But so I think it's unnecessary. 152 00:10:16,159 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 3: But second, the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket 153 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,200 pardons on the way out of an administration, I think 154 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:25,919 as a president, we don't want to set. 155 00:10:25,879 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 5: And you've communicated that to the president. 156 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,879 Speaker 3: President Biden communicated it both publicly and privately, to administration. 157 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:35,639 Speaker 1: To the administration, not Joe Biden, because as the New 158 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,440 York Times reported and confirming the Wall Street Journal reporting 159 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,600 and confirming what we all have been able to see 160 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:44,480 with our own eyes, that Joe Biden has been mentally 161 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,240 incapacitated for the last few years. 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So Joe Biden pardoned. 189 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,399 This was the story that was released early this morning, 190 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,159 as were when I saw it right that there were 191 00:12:29,159 --> 00:12:31,120 a bunch of pardons that went out the door earlier 192 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:35,000 this morning. But that wasn't the only one. It wasn't 193 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:39,759 the only pardons that Biden was signing. So the first 194 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:43,519 story that we got this morning was that Biden had 195 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:49,159 pardoned the science. That a wrestler from the eighties, the Science, 196 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,799 remember him, We remember he started off as a hero 197 00:12:53,919 --> 00:12:58,759 and then he became a heel. That guy, No, doctor 198 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:00,080 Anthony Fauci. 199 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 4: The science. 200 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:05,879 Speaker 1: I'm like the science and questioning means it's almost like 201 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,799 that they are they're ignoring the science. They're criticizing the science. 202 00:13:10,919 --> 00:13:13,799 I am the science. And then there's General Mark Millie. 203 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,960 He got one too preemptively, as did members of the 204 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,320 House committee that investigated the January sixth attack on the Capitol, 205 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:27,120 according to the Associated Press, using the extraordinary powers of 206 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,840 his office in his final hours to guard against potential 207 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,240 revenge by the incoming Trump administration. So that's all you 208 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:38,240 need to say. Now, they didn't do anything wrong, but 209 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,399 I'm gonna give him some pardons because you know, somebody 210 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,360 could accuse them of doing something wrong, and I don't 211 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,000 know if they did anything wrong. I don't think they 212 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,519 did anything wrong. Surely they didn't do anything wrong. So 213 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,840 I'm going to protect them even if they did something 214 00:13:49,879 --> 00:13:55,279 wrong for stuff that they may be investigated for that 215 00:13:55,320 --> 00:14:00,759 they didn't do wrong. That's what Joe Biden did today 216 00:14:00,799 --> 00:14:04,919 with Fauci Millie and the j six committee members, including 217 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:16,440 Adam Schiff for brains. So he said he didn't want one, 218 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,840 but he got one. I don't know if you can 219 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:27,000 even refuse them, but accepting one, the Supreme Court says, 220 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,120 is is tacitly an admission of the guilt, which is 221 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:37,480 why you take the pardon the decision by the Bidens, Well, yes, 222 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,399 by the Bidens. Comes after Donald Trump warned of an 223 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,200 enemy's list filled with those who have crossed him politically 224 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,279 or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to 225 00:14:45,279 --> 00:14:48,080 overturn the twenty twenty election loss and his ora. Well 226 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,080 wait a minute, No, the J six people are accused 227 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:57,879 of destroying evidence. That's what they're accused of doing. And 228 00:14:57,919 --> 00:15:02,000 so now if they did illegally destroy evidence, they get 229 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,960 to skate on that. 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Dan Proft 251 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,399 is a radio guy, and he tweeted Joe Biden left 252 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:22,159 as he served a first order scoundrel and an unmitigated fraud. 253 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,720 Joe Biden has always been this guy, and the people 254 00:16:27,759 --> 00:16:32,960 that surround him knew it and were of like mind. 255 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,240 The pardons that he just dished out to his family 256 00:16:38,279 --> 00:16:45,039 members and to Fauci and to Mark Milly, who it 257 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:51,799 like one could interpret General Mark Milly's actions to be treason. 258 00:16:53,559 --> 00:16:59,519 This what Milly did in talking to foreign adversarial powers, saying, 259 00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:02,039 don't worry, don't worry, I got you know, I'll prevent 260 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,640 Trump from doing stuff. That's the commander in chief. You're 261 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,640 talking about and you saying that you're going to disobey 262 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,200 his orders and you'll work around him and you'll make 263 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,200 sure that whatever he wants done, he's not going to 264 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:17,680 get done. Don't worry, we're stable. Like that's that's not 265 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:23,759 your job. You're not supposed to be doing that. I'm 266 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:27,680 surprised that he didn't pardon the fifty one former intelligence 267 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,759 and current you know, intelligence people that signed on to 268 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:34,799 that letter after the Hunter Biden laptop, which, by the way, 269 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,880 just a quick reminder on that, because it seems like 270 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,799 a lot of people forget this or may have never 271 00:17:39,839 --> 00:17:44,240 heard it. The Hunter Biden laptop had that had had 272 00:17:44,319 --> 00:17:50,119 Hunter Biden not left that laptop at that shop in 273 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,880 Delaware and then never went back to pick it up, 274 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,240 even though the shop owner said, hey, your laptop's done, 275 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,599 we finished preparing it, and Hunter never came back for it, 276 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,200 and by rule, it then becomes property of the shop, 277 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:11,000 and that shop owner then turned it over to authorities. 278 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,000 Had Hunter Biden never dropped that laptop, we would never 279 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:20,200 know about all of the bank accounts, which is why 280 00:18:20,839 --> 00:18:26,240 Joe pardoned his family. It was all of these family 281 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:30,039 members that had the bank accounts where the money was 282 00:18:30,079 --> 00:18:36,359 being washed through. They had more than two dozen bank 283 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,160 accounts and LLC's that they had set up for all 284 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,680 these different you know, fake reasons. I would submit and 285 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,480 then they would pay one LLC would pay, another would 286 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,759 pay another would pay another. Put it into this account, 287 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:50,799 move it to that account. And the reason you do 288 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:56,680 that is to mask it. It's to money launder. And 289 00:18:56,799 --> 00:18:59,440 without knowing all of the LLCs and all of the 290 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,200 bank accoun and being able to track all of the transfers, 291 00:19:02,519 --> 00:19:04,200 you would never know that, and you would never know 292 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:07,200 the bank accounts and the LLCs. Had Hunter Biden not 293 00:19:07,319 --> 00:19:13,559 left his laptop at that shop. The pardons announced well. 294 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,599 The first round of pardons were announced just hours before 295 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:20,400 the end of Biden's presidency. Have been the subject of 296 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,680 heated debate for months at the highest levels of the 297 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,119 White House. It's customary for a president to grant clemency 298 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:27,880 at the end of his term, but those acts of 299 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,599 mercy are usually offered to Americans who have been convicted 300 00:19:30,599 --> 00:19:35,200 of crimes. Convicted of crimes, Biden has used the power 301 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:40,680 in the broadest and most untested way possible. This is 302 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:46,599 the ap Tell me more about the destruction of norms, 303 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:53,039 Democrats and you never Trump Republicans. Tell me more about 304 00:19:53,039 --> 00:19:57,200 how Trump is the one who destroyed the norms to 305 00:19:57,319 --> 00:20:00,680 pardon people who have not even been investigated for anything. 306 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,079 The decision lays the groundwork for an even more expansive 307 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:10,960 use of pardons by Trump and future presidents. See, that's 308 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:14,799 the thing about slippery slopes. They are slopes, and they 309 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,319 are slippery, and once you start down them, you can't 310 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:21,960 stop because they're slippery. Tough to regain your footing on 311 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,079 a slippery slope. There's a raison. The cliche exists. People. 312 00:20:26,079 --> 00:20:28,799 There are fears that Trump or future presidents could use 313 00:20:28,839 --> 00:20:32,440 the promise of a blanket pardon to encourage allies to 314 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,559 take actions they might otherwise resist for fear of running 315 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:43,079 a foul of the law. Right, which, right, that's the 316 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,920 whole point. That's why you don't do this is because 317 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,480 now Trump could turn around and say, everybody in my administration, 318 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:52,799 you do whatever the hell you want, and don't worry 319 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,319 before I leave office. Blanket pardons for everybody, Like what 320 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:04,519 if you done Joe, Well, Joe that probably doesn't know, 321 00:21:06,759 --> 00:21:11,160 Joe's probably unaware. I've got a clip from Mike Johnson 322 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,119 will play in the next hour. It's unclear whether those 323 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,319 pardoned by Biden would need to apply for the clemency 324 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,319 or even accept the offer at all. By the way, 325 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,880 the JAY sixers apparently all did the JA six committee members. 326 00:21:23,599 --> 00:21:27,079 Any acceptance could be seen as a tacit admission of 327 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,000 guilt or wrongdoing. Well, that's what the Supreme Court ruling 328 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,319 talked about. They said, it is any acceptance could be 329 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,440 seen Oh I read that already, sorry, validating years of 330 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,319 attacks by Trump and his supporters, even though those who 331 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,359 have been pardoned have not been formally accused of any crimes. Right, 332 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,720 So this is about branding. This is about protection and branding. 333 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 4: Right. 334 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: You protect them from any investigation into what they may 335 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,839 or may not have done, and then you get to say, well, 336 00:21:55,839 --> 00:21:58,640 they were never even investigated. Well yet, because you pardoned 337 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,440 them in order to short circuit the investigative process, which, 338 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,920 by the way, I did get a message here from Mike. 339 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,599 Do you think an investigation into Fauci should happen anyway? 340 00:22:08,759 --> 00:22:09,079 Speaker 4: I do? 341 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,279 Speaker 1: We and history deserve the truth. I agree. And here's 342 00:22:13,319 --> 00:22:16,519 the nice part about a pardon. Though he can't claim 343 00:22:16,559 --> 00:22:20,839 the fifth nobody can claim the fifth anymore. And by 344 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,599 the way, Joe Biden can still be impeached. He's not 345 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,599 in office, but you can still do it. Bring them 346 00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:30,640 back in, Bring in every one of the family members 347 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,480 that got pardons. There is no Fifth Amendment protection anymore. 348 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:39,319 They are compelled to testify. There is no self incrimination 349 00:22:39,759 --> 00:22:42,559 that is on the table. That's the thing. When you 350 00:22:42,559 --> 00:22:46,400 get a pardon, you no longer can self incriminate because 351 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,599 you have a pardon. These are exceptional circumstances, and I 352 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,000 cannot in good conscience do nothing Biden said, or whoever 353 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:56,799 wrote the statement, even when individuals have done nothing wrong 354 00:22:56,839 --> 00:22:58,960 and in fact have done the right thing and will 355 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,759 ultimately be exonerate from what, exonerated from what. The mere 356 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:08,559 fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations 357 00:23:08,559 --> 00:23:14,880 and finances. Yeah, tell that to Donald Trump, right, so 358 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,799 he is well aware of the cost of simply being accused. 359 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,279 Mark Milly, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 360 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,000 called Trump a fascist and detailed Trump's conduct around the 361 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:30,480 deadly j six, twenty twenty one insurrection. He said he 362 00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:33,119 was grateful to Biden for a pardon so he no 363 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:38,759 longer has to worry about retribution for doing back channel 364 00:23:38,839 --> 00:23:44,920 discussions with our foreign adversaries, saying basically, he's in charge. 365 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,880 Don't worry. I'm in charge. I won't let all of 366 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,680 this stuff happen. This is a decision to break with 367 00:23:50,759 --> 00:23:55,640 political norms. Biden has said the president has set the 368 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,960 presidential record for more individual pardons and commutations than anyone else. 369 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,559 He announced Friday he'd be commuting sentences of almost twenty 370 00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:08,440 five hundred people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. He previously 371 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,799 announced he was commuting the sentences of thirty seven out 372 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:15,119 of the forty people on federal death row, so it's 373 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:20,279 not just nonviolent people. He converted their punishments to life 374 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:25,559 imprisonment because you know Trump's coming in and he may 375 00:24:25,559 --> 00:24:32,599 put them to death. By the way, from the Constitution, 376 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,039 I mean, whoever looks at that anymore, that the president 377 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,680 shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses 378 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,880 against the United States. We don't even know what these 379 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,480 offenses were. This is like, I'm not even sure that 380 00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:53,240 a preemptive pardon is a thing, right, I mean, like 381 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:58,079 I guess, I guess maybe it is. I don't know. 382 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,440 I'm not a constitutional lawyer. But also no, it's all 383 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,640 a distraction on Twitter, that's her name. It's all a distraction. 384 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,480 I'm sure little granddaughter Navy received no pardon. Yes, you 385 00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:13,079 are correct, no pardon for her. I mean she's only 386 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,359 like three, so and I don't even know if she's 387 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,279 related to the Bidens. They never, they never acknowledge her. 388 00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:22,359 So I Reuter's reported in November that the Trump transition 389 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,880 team was drawing up a list of military officers seen 390 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,960 as connected to Millie to be fired. So a lot. So, 391 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,799 So not only are they worried about getting fired, they're 392 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:34,200 worried that they may have committed They may have committed 393 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,759 as a as George Bluth said, some light treason maybe maybe, 394 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:43,599 So just blanket pardons for everybody on the way out 395 00:25:43,599 --> 00:25:47,599 the door, Norms restored. All right, if you're listening to 396 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:49,119 this show, you know I try to keep up with 397 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,279 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. 398 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,960 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 399 00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:58,640 multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, 400 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,839 which is why I've been so with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link 412 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,559 and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use 413 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,759 the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 414 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,720 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 415 00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:49,920 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 416 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:57,079 more transparent. Jake Tapper posted on Twitter on December third, 417 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,799 twenty twenty. Okay, so think back December third, twenty Okay, 418 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,640 So Trump loses the election in November, We're waiting for 419 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,920 Biden to come in. This is before January sixth, okay, 420 00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:14,920 and President elect Biden sits for an interview on CNN 421 00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:21,839 with Tapper, and he asks Biden about reports that Trump 422 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:28,880 is considering preemptive pardons, and Joe Biden says, he guess 423 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:35,039 that Mary, and that means quote, it concerns me in 424 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:38,880 terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how 425 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,680 the rest of the world looks at us as a 426 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:47,519 nation of laws and justice. And then he does it himself. 427 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:53,680 He turns around and does it himself. Four years later, 428 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,680 there is a writer. He goes by the Twitter handle 429 00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:02,640 pundit Review. He's out of Massachusetts, and he says, why 430 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,359 did Biden part in his family? Because everything the GOP 431 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,519 investigated and claimed about the Biden crime family was true. 432 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:14,680 Nine Biden family members, including the president's granddaughter, have received 433 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,839 money from foreign entities, totaling over twenty million dollars. That's 434 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,000 why you know who did not get a pardon though, 435 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:30,039 doctor Jill, Doctor Jill Biden did not get a pardon. Vinman, 436 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:36,079 remember that guy who leaked the information about the perfect 437 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:41,400 phone call with Ukrainian President Vladimir or Voldemir whatever. He's 438 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,799 going by the guy without the collared shirts everywhere. That guy, 439 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:53,440 Alexander Vinman his wife Rachel posted on threads, which is 440 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,640 a social media platform that nobody really uses, but it 441 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,759 was supposed to take out Twitter but it didn't. But 442 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,960 I think that's the Facebook or the Metta version of 443 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:09,480 Twitter that's probably now being cannibalized by Blue Sky. So 444 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:13,359 Rachel Vinmann posted whatever happens to my family know this. 445 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,720 No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to 446 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:22,599 describe the level of betrayal and hurt. I feel you 447 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:24,759 should talk with Donald Trump. I bet he feels a 448 00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:32,160 little bit of that betrayal from your husband. And by 449 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,799 the way, at the time, I said that that phone 450 00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:40,759 call did not warrant impeachment at the time, okay me, 451 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,440 who is you know, not a defender of Donald Trump 452 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,519 and all the things he says and does, which I'm 453 00:29:46,519 --> 00:29:48,839 sure is now going to tick some people off in 454 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,599 the next four years. Wait till I get to the 455 00:29:50,599 --> 00:29:55,720 TikTok stuff. But even I could could recognize what I 456 00:29:55,799 --> 00:29:58,880 was seeing in reading through the transcript of that phone call. 457 00:29:59,039 --> 00:30:03,400 We did a theatrical performance. My producer read read one part, 458 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,960 I read the other part. I forget. I think I 459 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,480 think I did the Ukrainian. I think I did Zelensky 460 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,640 because I could do the accent better. Anyway, that was 461 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,119 not an impeachable phone call, but that's what Democrats wanted 462 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,759 to do. Also, somebody else who didn't get a pardon 463 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:27,039 Francis Collins, former head of the NIH Right, one of 464 00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:29,960 Fauci's cohorts. There. This was the guy that sang the 465 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,079 song to the two you Like, rewrote the words to 466 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,839 Somewhere over the Rainbow to Someday after the pandemic as 467 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:41,599 part of his retirement. Gig awful, just awful. He did 468 00:30:41,599 --> 00:30:44,160 not get a pardon, So I wonder can you bring 469 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,920 him in and make Fauci testify against him? I think so. 470 00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,559 All right, that'll do it for this episode. 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