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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Biden Considering Preemptive Pardons Before Trump Takes Office

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Individuals who risk prosecution under the incoming Trump administration could receive preemptive pardons. President Joe Biden said he was considering issuing pardons like this in order to shield key figures from prosecution.

Biden demonstrated a novel use of pardons like this when he granted his son, Hunter Biden, a pardon for any potential crimes committed between January 2014 and December 2024. The president has been pressed to give similar pardons to others, although he has not fully committed to doing so.

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Individuals who risk prosecution under the incoming Trump administration could receive preemptive pardons.

0:07.6

President Joe Biden has confirmed he is considering issuing pardons like this.

0:13.0

Meanwhile, Trump is still facing criminal sentencing in New York over the Stormy Daniels case.

0:17.9

The judge has announced he will sentence Donald Trump this Friday,

0:22.8

but Trump is trying to delay the sentencing. And in other news, an alleged agent of the Chinese

0:27.9

Communist Party was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles. The individual is being accused

0:33.5

of trying to manipulate U.S. politics and export the Chinese regime's persecutions onto

0:39.9

U.S. soil. I'm the Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening

0:45.5

to Crossroads.

0:53.1

Individuals who risk being prosecuted once Trump comes back into office because Trump has been

0:59.1

saying that this may happen these individuals could potentially receive preemptive

1:04.4

pardons president Joe Biden has now said that he is considering issuing pardons like this

1:10.4

and this would shield key figures from being

1:13.1

prosecuted. Now, Biden demonstrated a novel use of pardons like this. It was never really done before.

1:19.7

The closest we had was under Richard Nixon, who got kind of a sweeping pardon. But Joe Biden granted

1:25.3

his son, Hunter Biden, a pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed or that he was even somewhat involved in between January 2014 and December 2024.

1:38.5

And Biden has been pressed to give similar pardons, novel ones. We've never seen it done like this really, to others,

1:45.6

although he has not fully committed to doing so.

1:50.2

Now, he made these comments during an exclusive interview with USA Today, and here's what they said.

1:54.7

It said Biden said he is considering preemptive pardons for public figures,

1:59.8

such as former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney,

2:03.4

who was on the January 6th Committee, and former senior health official Dr. Anthony Fauci,

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