In the final weeks of Joe Biden’s Presidency, after what began with a predictable, all-encompassing 11-year blanket Presidential Pardon of his delinquent crackhead son Hunter Biden, chatter of a plethora of additional Preemptive Pardons coming down the political pike by year’s end began echoing throughout the halls of our Nation’s Capitol and across the airwaves, filtering into every living room and lobby in America. Not only shining a spotlight on Joe Biden’s lawlessness but also on the malfeasance of his Administration and his Establishment and Deep State allies scattered throughout all three Branches of our Government, from elected members of Congress in our Legislative Branch to selective activist judges in our Judicial Branch to unelected bureaucrats appointed and embedded within every Institution and three letter Agency of our Executive Branch…
Without question, all war-mongering, power-hungry pathological liars, charlatans, con-men, and tricksters, or in sum total, psychopaths, whom Joe the “Big Guy” Biden will in all conceivable likelihood, Preemptively Pardon for their unindicted crimes against the United States and the American people.
Most notably, amongst the pool of potential pardon recipients awaiting to be bequeathed with a get-out-of-jail-free card from King Biden are some of the most vile, malevolent, and deceitful career politicians, Deep State propagandists, and purveyors of misinformation ever to corrupt the corridors of Congress such as:
1)— Nasty Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House and the ultimate Insider in all things “Stocks & Deep-State.”
2)— Liz-zie “Borden” Cheney, a neocon and an avowed Trump-hater and RINO who cochaired Pelosi’s deviantly unorthodox partisan “Get-Trump,” “Unselect” J6 Select-Committee.
3)— Adam Schiffty Schitt Schiff, a prolific political leaker, liar, demagogue, and smarmy hack who played a key role in the Russia Collusion Hoax and Steele Dossier.
4)— Jamie the “Rat-Skin” Raskin, a Constitutionally illiterate Constitutional Lawyer or Liar, take your pick, and nihilist who is so consumed with hate for President Trump that he has forgotten that our Constitution was created to protect “We the People” from Government tyranny and tyrants, and not the other way around.
Insidious Deep-State operatives such as:
5)— Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an in-the-flesh veritable traitor to our Constitutional Republic and a liveried lackey to President Xi and the CCP who deserves nothing less than a Court Martial, not a Preemptive Pardon.
6)— Doctor Anthony Fauci, the former head of the NIAID and, for all infectious intents and mortality purposes, a State Sanctioned Serial killer.
7)— Merrick Garland, head of the Deep State and America’s top Prosecutor and proverbial “Executioner,” who has rightly earned the title “Worst Attorney General EVER.”
A handful of obsequious henchmen and/or henchwomen of DC’s Permanent Bureaucracy and Deep State, you know, “Crisis Actors,” who, in their self-serving “Get-Trump” traitorous folly, were obviously looking to make a name for themselves, such as, for example:
8)— Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn, two Capitol Police Officers and part of the deranged anti-Trump quartet of celebrity cops who gained notoriety after they spun every selfie-taking second of the four-hour J6 riot/protest into a fantastical, tall tale of heroism as though they were four men trapped on the rooftop of a CIA Annex in Benghazi fighting off terrorists or something of that nature.
9)— Michael Byrd, another Capitol Police Officer who, with a significant disciplinary record, was promoted after he shot and murdered J6 protestor Ashli Babbitt.
And last but certainly not least:
10)— Pinocchio’s cousin, little Miss Myth Maker, Cassidy Hutchinson…
Obviously, all of the aforementioned sycophants earned lucrative book deals, Congressional Awards, and News gigs for their respective roles and steadfast efforts, contributions, and dedication to the Deep State's persecute, prosecute, and imprison Trump witch-hunt.
Suffice it to say, not only does entertaining the notion or anomalous concept of Preemptive Pardons for one’s political allies reek with the stench of political corruption, but at first glance, they cheapen the Rule of Law, not to mention our ethical norms and our Republic’s Founding Principles and Values.
What’s more, whether in appearance or otherwise, Preemptive Pardons are an egregious and even, in some instances, naturally, depending on the recipient, a treasonous abuse of our Constitution’s Article II Presidential Pardon Powers.
And why?
Because our Constitution’s Pardon Provision obviously, or as logic would have it, contemplated crimes “ACTUALLY COMMITTED,” not crimes for which a person has neither been investigated for nor charged with. In Ex Parte Garland, 71 U.S. 333 (1866): “The president can issue a pardon at any point “AFTER” a crime is committed…” that “The President "CANNOT PARDON BY ANTICIPATION,” or he would be invested with the power to dispense with the laws…” King James II’s claim to which was the principal cause of his forced abdication.
Clearly, our Founders did not anticipate a situation in which pardons would be vested on a preemptive basis for "uncharged" crimes that both the President and the recipients of said potential Pardons claim "NEVER" transpired… how could anyone foresee such a scenario?
It makes absolutely no sense… that is, unless, of course:
A)— Conspiracy Theories are so good these days that they now require Preemptive Pardons,
OR
Think about it: in a reasonably reputably ethical, law-abiding society, why would a United States President need to grant, much less entertain or amuse the notion of, Preemptive Presidential Pardons, sweeping or otherwise, for his political allies for crimes he and they argue he and they did not commit?
And why would the intended or potential recipients of said Preemptive Presidential Pardons not only wholeheartedly welcome with open arms but also vigorously lobby for said pardons if, as they have claimed or affirmed with as much wholeheartedness and vigor, they did nothing wrong… nothing warranting or requiring a pardon?
There is quite literally no legitimate Authority, Law, Statute, Code, Constitutional Provision, Amendment, Article, Section, and/or Clause over or governing "unidentified offenses" in this country…
How could there be?
Therefore, unless we have all stepped “Through the Looking Glass” and into Lewis Carroll’s fantastical realm where up is down and down is up and logic takes a back seat, how could or can a President legitimately pardon someone for something they “supposedly” claim they are not even aware of?
The answer is he can’t. It’s illogical, and it’s anathema to not only our system of justice but to what our Founders intended.
However, here is the unfortunate truth—or, moreover, the reality of it, if realized: While Biden’s implicit intentions to Preemptively Pardon his political allies for unidentified offenses are, without question, wholly unethical and illegitimate in that they bastardize the "Rule of Law," we still cannot say one way or the other whether or not they are, in fact, “Unconstitutional.”
And why?
Well, simply put, because Preemptive Pardons have never been “challenged.”
As it stands, there are no limitations on a President's Pardon Powers. The Pardon Provision of the Constitution is actually silent per se on the extent of a President’s Presidential Pardon Powers —(except in cases of impeachment.)— it’s simply declarative in that our Constitution doesn’t say one way or the other; nothing is written in Article II or elsewhere in our Constitution including, excluding or precluding Preemptive Pardons. The case for the Constitutionality of Preemptive Pardons is based on the "absence" of any prohibition in the text of the relevant Pardon Provision.
In the almost 250-year storied history of our Nation, the only other preemptive, blanket pardon ever granted was from President Gerald Ford to President Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974 for any and all unidentified crimes… which obviously made or set a “Factual Precedent,” per se, in the history of Presidential Pardons; however, the question is not whether it was a factual precedent, but rather the question is, was it a legitimate and/or legal pardon, was it valid?
The answer is we do not know because, again, the Constitutional validity of the Nixon Pardon was never tested; it was or has never been “challenged” to the United States Supreme Court.
Which makes you wonder: If wholesale Preemptive Presidential Pardons were henceforth doled out to political allies like candy in “Party Favors,” might the Supreme Court, if a State AG or our Nation's AG summoned the gumption to challenge said pardons, set reasonable limits on a President’s Constitutional Pardon Powers?
The answer: they just very well might, given the unambiguous slippery slope into tyranny and the World of despotism that unchecked Pardon Powers and Pardons handed out like Party Favors to political allies would surely lead us into!
Needless to say, what is so offensive about Biden’s potential Preemptive Pardons and what the American people need to focus on is why Biden is even considering granting such pardons.
Could it have something to do with the explosive, 128-page Interim J6 Subcommittee Report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th “Unselect" Select Committee that was released on Tuesday, December 17th, 2024, by Conservative Congressman and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight Barry Loudermilk and his colleagues on the Committee?
A J6 Subcommittee Report that not only revealed damning evidence confirming what those of us with functioning brains had long since suspected that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat-led Partisan, J6 Select Committee was nothing more than an insidious, politically motivated “Get-Trump” witch-hunt, a corrupt theatrical charade fraught with Soviet-era schemes, tactics, and dirty tricks, not to mention some of the most egregious lies ever devised and propagated on the American people by sitting members of Congress, but also a report that at a glance, sheds light on how maliciously dark, manipulative, and dangerously malign politicians can get when they find or hone in on an unfortunate event —(in this case, January 6th, 2021)— and exploit it for personal and/or political profit.
Rep. Loudermilk’s Subcommittee Report laid bare undeniable evidence that Pelosi’s Select Committee, chaired by Rep Bennie Thompson —(and cochaired by, and against House Republicans express wishes, none other than the two infamous and avowed anti-Trump, excommunicated Republicans and RINOS, Liz Cheney, and her window-licking lapdog, crybaby Adam Kinzinger)— was not only:
1)— established to create and hence solidify the contrived narrative and phony public perception that the so-called J6 insurrection was ostensibly, according to Democrats and a handful of Anti-Trump Rinos, orchestrated and executed by President Trump in perpetuity of his Presidency and supposed lust for power.
But
2)— to provoke the indictment, prosecution, and imprisonment of President Trump in order to hammer the final nail in the coffin of his political career, not to mention his life, to boot, and hence prevent him from ever seeking a return to the White House.
Suffice it to say, not only one of the many but one of the most important confirmations Congressman Loudermilk’s J6 Subcommittee Report revealed about Pelosi’s J6 Select Committee was inculpatory evidence directly implicating Liz Cheney and others on the Committee in Federal crimes, such as witness tampering and perjury, not to mention the destruction of exculpatory evidence exonerating President Trump.
Needless to say, in light of the compelling evidence that the House Subcommittee’s Oversight investigation unearthed into Pelosi’s Select Committee and upon publication of Loudermilk’s Subcommittee Report on Tuesday, December 17th, Congressional Republicans issued criminal referrals, recommending an FBI investigation into Liz Cheney, citing federal violations of 18 U.S. Code § 1512 in which Cheney secretly communicated and colluded with witnesses vis-a-vis the encrypted messaging app “Signal,” and Federal violations of 18 U.S. Code § 1622, which prohibits any person from procuring another person to commit perjury and quote, “based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, perjury was in fact committed and there were lies told under oath to the Select Committee.”
For all malicious intents and self-serving purposes and in the name of Absolute Power and all things anti-Trump, a web of farcical lies was spun out of whole cloth and then deliberately broadcast to the World in a made-for-TV show-trial extravaganza during Primetime, due in full measure to the show's cast of executive producers, Nancy Pelosi, Adams Schiff, Bennie Thompson, Rinos Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, amongst other appointed, Trump-hating Congressional Committee members….
Indeed, the finest puppet masters, connivers, and exploiters of innocence, truth, and justice ever to come out of DC. All proficiently skilled in the political art of manipulation and exploitation of Americans, such as Cassidy Hutchinson, for example, a lowly hearsay witness, no less, and a former assistant to President Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who, in the quest for her 15 minutes of fame, after being rejected sometime in April 2021 for a position on then former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago team, did, at the behest of Pelosi and Cheney’s “Get-Trump” J6 Select Committee —(whilst being groomed by Liz Cheney herself who was not only having illegal back-channel communications with Hutchinson, but also without the foreknowledge or consent of Hutchinson’s initial attorney, Stefan Passantino)— lie under Oath by attempting to convince the public that President Trump:
1)— On January 6th, 2021, ostensibly transformed into the Incredible Hulk, lunged from the back of the Presidential SUV, busted through the bulletproof glass partition, grabbed hold of the steering wheel, and attacked his Secret Service detail, more specifically, Bobby Engel, the driver of the vehicle as he simultaneously attempted to commandeer the vehicle… LIE!
2)— Had intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6th… LIE!
3)— Agreed with rioters chanting "hang Mike Pence…” LIE!
And that,
4)— Amongst a plethora of other farcical tall tales told to the J6 Select Committee, she wrote the note for a proposed tweet as her boss, President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Eric Herschmann, a personal attorney to Trump, dictated it to her…” LIE!
Predictably so, whilst simultaneously giving Hutchinson a mega platform from which to spew her egregious lies and fantastical nonsense, Pelosi’s “Get-Trump” Select Committee deliberately ignored witness testimony and exculpatory evidence directly contradicting little Miss Myth Maker's outrageous claims. More specifically, testimony from firsthand witnesses, Tony Ornato, the then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Secret Service Agent Bobby Engel, who was not only responsible for chauffeuring President Trump from the White House to the Ellipse on January 6th but who also offered to testify under Oath that neither he nor Tony Ornato were assaulted by President Trump and that Trump never lunged for the steering wheel either.
Obviously, for her fairytale of bravery, Cassidy Hutchinson became the next mainstream American hero to the unwitting, docile masses on the Left side of the political divide in their imaginary, Herculean battle against Trump tyranny; however, as most rational level, level-headed Americans well know and knew at the time, Pelosi and Cheney’s “Get-Trump” Select Committee was nothing more than a theatrical charade, for a number of reasons, not the least of which is or was the obvious tell, in that whenever Democrats push a narrative this hard, as they did with Miss Hutchinson, it’s not usually, but moreover, it is always a lie…
The fact is, Loudermilk’s J6 Subcommittee Report not only exposed Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson’s malfeasance, but it also, —(amongst others, including the Office of the DOD’s Inspector General, in addition to Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, two Pentagon Army Generals, and Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, etc.,)— revealed Nancy Pelosi’s involvement and failures which, predictably so, the “Get-Trump" J6 Select Committee vigorously concealed in order to protect Pelosi despite the fact that Pelosi herself ADMITTED ON CAMERA on January 6th, 2021 that she, as Speaker of the House, was solely RESPONSIBLE for securing the Capitol Complex which, of course, she failed miserably at because she, despite her bogus claims that Trump incited an insurrection, refused Trump‘s generous offer to provide 10,000 or more National Guard members to secure and protect the U.S. Capitol on January 6th!
Needless to say, thanks to Congressman Loudermilk’s dedication to the truth and justice through the House Subcommittee’s extensive investigation, we now not only know the true insidiousness of Pelosi and Cheney’s “Get-Trump” J6 charade but Biden and Democrats also now realize that the gig is up, that we know, which, of course, is why Joe Biden will, in all likelihood, grant all relevant members and “false witnesses” of Pelosi’s J6 Select Committee Preemptive Presidential Pardons.
A final act that will, no doubt, enable Democrats to keep propagating their phony progressive narrative that by Biden’s issuance of said Preemptive Pardons, Democrats are, once again, at least in their delusional state of self-unawareness, America’s saviors, saving Democracy from the “big bad orange man;” you know, the tyrant who, according to the Left, was going to lock up his political opponents had it not been for Biden’s Preemptive Pardons despite the unvarnished fact and corroborating evidence that the only politicians and Party attempting to, and in some cases, who have already done so, locked up their political opponents, are Democrats.
Ironically enough, Biden’s Preemptive Pardons would do precisely what he claims he is deterring by issuing Preemptive Pardons, which is to create a dangerous immunity precedent for future Presidents and their allies after they have, for personal and political gain, deliberately and criminally abused power.
But suffice it to say, said Preemptive Pardons will be viewed and go down in the annals of history as nothing more than a parting protective gesture on Joe Biden’s way out the door, a gift to DC’s Establishment Deep-Staters who, for a half-century, protected him, Joe, the “Big Guy” Biden and his family from prosecution for their treasonous crimes against America.
Linda Genzel Editor @WECU News
Opinion.
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