Excellent summation of Pardongate. Questions?
President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.
Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.
The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them.
The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic. — Politico
Our Take: Pardon me, but it’s clear #OurBoyBlue isn’t done yet!
The absolute mad lad is burning the system down on his way out the door.
The Game Theory on display when it comes to the ‘pardon panic’ is incredible, and runs along multiple tracks.
For starters, the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI Director was as much Narrative as it was Actual. While SOME of Trump’s picks for cabinet positions have left all sides of the Mind War scratching their heads, Kash was the one both sides converged on in advance as the ultimate promise (to us) and threat (to them.)
Pardoning Hunter is one of the juiciest political scandals in American history … and now, by pre-emptively offering pardons to names like Cheney and Fauci, Biden is seeding the justice phase in the public mind, while codifying 8 years of ‘conspiracy’ narrative.
What’s more, they have to ACCEPT the pardons, implying de facto admission of guilt in advance of even being accused directly of crimes by the incoming DOJ.
Your move, swampies. — Burning Bright
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