On His Way Out the Door, Biden Pardons his Family, Dr. Fauci, Gen. Millie, and Liz Cheney.

Minutes before leaving the White House to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, Joe Biden signed formal blanket pre-emptive pardons for his brother James and his wife, Sara; for his sister, Valerie, and her husband, John Owens; and for his brother Francis.

Remember how Biden said repeatedly he would not pardon his son, Hunter, and then he did?

Well, Biden also said he did not believe in pre-emptive pardons. On December 3, 2020, CNN reported:

“President-elect Joe Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he was concerned about reports that President Trump is considering a host of preemptive pardons for his adult children and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as the possibility of one for himself. ‘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,’” Biden said.

Back in 2020, when they were concerned that Trump might issue pardons to his family, Democrats took the position that the act of issuing such pardons was tantamount to an admission of guilt.

MSNBC host Joy Reid asked then Rep. (now Sen.) Adam Schiff in 2020, “Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, who’s just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that? Just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they’re an innocent person?”

“I certainly would view it that way. I think millions of Americans would view it that way,” Schiff responded. “If there was no belief in criminality, why would he think a pardon was necessary?”

Back in 2020, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was asked a similar question by MSNBC host Brian Williams. “Is there an innocent explanation for someone to seek preemptive pardons for family members? Would you do that if you knew you were innocent and just worried about outside forces?” Williams asked.

“The answer to that is going to be no,” Weissmann responded. “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you sit there and go, what do you need a preemptive pardon for?”

Fast four four years to Biden’s last few minutes in office, and he has now issued pre-emptive pardons to his family members. So what are these Democrats saying now?

Well, we know what Biden says, he says his family had been “subjected to unrelenting 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.”

“I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finance,” Biden said.

A very ironic statement from the President who invented “Lawfare” to throw his opponent in jail, fearing that his very own tactics might come back to bite him, and suddenly bemoaning just how awful such tactics might be.

But where are the Democrats who were so quick to say that the possible issuance of preemptive pardons by Trump in 2020 would demonstrate guilt? None of them seem to be dancing to the same tune in 2025 now that Biden has actually done what they only feared Trump would do.

Just before pardoning his family, Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the hero of the Covid response and vaccination program, who is now widely thought to have engineered the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Wuhan lab, in violation of President Obama’s clear orders, and to have massively profited from the pharmaceutical patents for the vaccines and medicines prescribed to fight covid, while denying patients very cheap, but apparently effective, drugs like Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Fauci’s critics, many eminent medical doctors and researchers, are growing in number, and they feel that he is in large measure responsible for much of the sickness and death during the Covid years.

Biden also pardoned General Mark Millie, who was seen not only as inept but had so polluted the military with DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) concepts, that he had almost single-handedly reduced its ability to respond and fight. Millie served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both Trump and Biden. He was accused of disloyalty to the United States when he admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that if Trump had given an order to launch an attack against China, that he (Millie) would have first called his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, to warn the Chinese, thus thwarting any element of surprise.

Biden also gave a blanket pre-emptive pardon to Liz Chaney and to all the other members of the House Committee which “investigated” the January 6th protest at the Capitol. Chaney, the daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, was a respected Republican Member of Congress from Wyoming, who suddenly and viciously turned on President Trump and aligned herself with the most vicious Trump-haters, and became a blatant anti-Trump partisan. Chaney became so disliked that in her next election bid, Republican Primary voters in Wyoming rejected her to Harriott Hageman to whom Chaney lost 66.3% to 28.9%. It was a humiliating loss for Chaney, but she continued to do the dirty work for Democrats, never missing an opportunity to bad-mouth President Trump. Apparently for her work on his behalf, as there is no other basis, Biden granted her a pardon. She is still, at this late date, continuing to besmirch Trump.

Just a few days ago, she urged Senators to reject Trump’s nominees who “cooperated with Trump’s deceit to overturn the 2020 elections.”

Posting on X, Chaney wrote, ” … As the Senate considers confirming Trump’s Justice Department nominees: if those nominees cooperated with Trump’s deceit to overturn the 2020 election, they cannot now be entrusted with the responsibility to preserve the rule of law and protect our Republic.”

But apparently Cheney is so obsessed in her desire to demean Trump with anyone who will listen to her, now that she is irrelevant to national politics, that on the day of his Inauguration as the 47th President, she posted, “Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor Center today were a reminder that neither lies nor the liar who tells them get better with age. ” She said more than that, but she is not even worth the value of electronic ink, nor the waste of your time in reading it.