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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Biden's last minute pardons

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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President Joe Biden issued pardons to several close family members Monday in the final minutes of his presidency.

 

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0:34.4

Joe Biden is. Pardoning? Not only, we knew coming in.

0:39.1

By the way, he waited.

0:40.4

Okay, let's start with this.

0:41.4

He waited on Fauci and Millie in these January 6th people.

0:45.1

And then, of course, his family, which we'll get to.

0:46.8

He waited on those people to the last minute because he didn't want to answer questions about it.

0:49.9

Right.

0:51.2

He waited because he didn't want to deal with. Why are you pardoning the preemptively

0:56.4

pardoning these people who haven't, aren't even under investigation for anything, much

1:00.4

has been charged with anything or convicted of anything. Well, and we should have seen what he did

1:05.2

yesterday coming when he did that a couple days ago. I hate, I hate this because it's hard to put this genie back in the

1:14.7

model now. He set the precedent that presidents can preemptively just pardon anybody.

1:21.2

Imagine how insufferable you and I would be if we were preemptively pardoned for anything

1:25.4

we might do in the future. Well, this is the question, right?

1:28.9

So the premise of the pardon, and the president has great power and discretion on this,

1:33.9

was to alleviate suffering of people who have paid their debt in some shape,

1:41.1

form or fashion to society.

1:43.4

They've served their time in some capacity

1:45.7

or their entire sentence and to say, hey, you are no longer a threat to humanity. You've shown

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