Pardon Push Gaining Momentum

The trial balloon about Biden preemptively pardoning every malefactor around him is rising higher and higher, and few Democrats or media figures are taking potshots at it. 

In @nytopinion

Kash Patel, who President-elect Trump plans to nominate as FBI director, once listed 60 political opponents he considers “gangsters.” “Biden should pardon them all,” writes Michelle Goldberg. https://t.co/df7PrBJi5B

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 6, 2024

Quite the opposite. The very people who were celebrating Joe Biden’s promise not to pardon his son as proof positive that he cared about the rule of law while Trump cares not a whit are now celebrating Joe’s pardon of Hunter and demanding that the non-sentient president go on a pardon spree for all his political cronies. 

I’ll ask it again… why is the party who pushed “No one is above the law” and dismissed any claims that the DOJ was weaponized to prosecute political opponents feeling the need to pre-emptively pardon multiple people who supposedly have done no wrong?

— Jason Szemborski (@JasonSzemborski) December 6, 2024

Sleepy Joe’s pardon of his son was justified by the amazing claim that his own Justice Department was weaponized against Hunter and all these notional-but-likely pardons of people like Fauci, Milley, and especially Alejandro Mayorkas are being promoted as insurance against an incoming Trump administration bent on revenge. 

Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) says Biden should pardon every Democrat whom Trump’s DoJ may investigate: “Just pardon all of them.” pic.twitter.com/87SO8gAxdg

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 5, 2024

If the issue weren’t so serious, it would be hilarious. The Biden administration and its allies have spent the past four years putting Trump’s allies in jail, trying to bankrupt and jail Trump himself, and are now playing the victims themselves. 

We have ample proof that many of the people Biden may pardon have committed provable crimes in public–Fauci certainly committed multiple counts of perjury before Congress, as have many others. But “nobody is above the law” has transmogrified into “it must have been legal because it helped Democrats and hurt Republicans.”

The Milley pardon would be especially rich, given that his biggest crime was his collusion with Chinese military officials while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Trump. He admitted to his crimes in his book–proudly and without ambiguity. He likely could still be court-martialed, which is the appropriate punishment anyway. Humiliation and a permanent stain on his record are probably the appropriate punishment in any case. 

Still, I believe that much of this theater is about protecting Alejandro Mayorkas and a few of Biden’s closest partners in crime.

It is Alejandro Mayorkas who has been Biden’s hitman. Merrick Garland has done some dirty work, for sure, but Mayorkas is in a class by himself. He opened the US border and executed one of the largest human trafficking operations in world history. He helped smuggle hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children into the US and “lost” them–many likely to sex traffickers. He ran the Secret Service which somehow managed to botch the protection of Trump. And, of course, runs the highly politicized FEMA. 

Don’t forget that his TSA put Tulsi Gabbard on a watch list. 

The list of his crimes is likely endless, and Biden needs to cover all those up to the extent that he can. 

Pardoned or not, the Trump administration should investigate every single crime and political maneuver that has occurred under Biden, and to the extent possible some of the sleazy stuff done under Obama. 

Our government has been weaponized, and even if we can’t jail the malefactors, we can destroy their reputations, their political futures, and everything that made this horror possible. 

Truth and reconciliation could even be superior to criminal trials. Lay it all out. Make them testify. Make the political price for betraying Americans as high as possible. 

The crimes were committed. Expose them. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.