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Today we're going to talk about the prospect of Biden issuing preemptive pardons and how the media

is missing the mark with its coverage. And I've got two interviews. I'm joined by Zateo's Medi Hassan to discuss the state of independent

media, the impact that Israel Gaza played in the election, and why Harris was punished when

Trump is already assembling a cabinet of pro-Israel hawks. And I sit down with Congressman Roe

Kana to discuss where Democrats should spend their political capital resisting Trump,

why he supports Trump's Doge Commission with Elon Musk and Vivek Romozoomi and his thoughts on the DNC chair race.

I'm Brian Taylor Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So we're in the aftermath of Joe Biden granting his son Hunter a pardon,

and yet now there's talk about Biden issuing preemptive pardons for people who are possible targets for Trump's retribution campaign. People like

Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci. Here's the deal. And this applies to Hunter Biden,

the same exact way it applies to Schiff and Cheney and Fauci. If you are more upset with Joe

Biden being forced to consider the extraordinary step of preemptorily

pardoning his own officials, then you are about Donald Trump appointing someone who has promised

to use the federal government to exact personal retribution for him, then you are simply not paying

attention. These Republicans who are trashing Biden as some lawless thug for pardoning Hunter

act as if it's happening in a vacuum.

It's not. It is happening expressly because the guy who Trump tapped for FBI director has a

literal enemy's list of people that he would try to prosecute. You can't have fainting spells

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