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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

DOJ Warned Biden's Pardons Could Free Violent Felons plus Trump Brokers Path Toward Ukraine-Russia Peace

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

  • Joe Biden’s Clemency Orders:

    • Allegations that former President Biden issued mass clemency orders using an autopen in his final days in office.
    • DOJ officials, particularly Bradley Weinsheimer, raised concerns about the legality and vagueness of the orders.
    • Claims that violent offenders were included despite public statements suggesting only nonviolent drug offenders were pardoned.
  • Donald Trump’s Federal Crime Initiative in Washington, D.C.:

    • Praise for Trump’s decision to federalize law enforcement in D.C.
    • Reports of significant arrests and crime reduction following the initiative.
    • Accusations that D.C. officials manipulated crime statistics to downplay violence.
  • Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks Mediated by Trump:

    • Coverage of a summit in Anchorage, Alaska, involving Trump, Zelensky, and other leaders.
    • Claims of progress toward a peace framework, including territorial negotiations and security guarantees.
    • Statements from Marco Rubio and Zelensky supporting Trump’s role in the negotiations.
    • Criticism of media and Democratic opposition to Trump’s peace efforts.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.9

We have new breaking news and it deals with former president Joe Biden.

0:10.0

He ignored.

0:10.8

We're now being told the Department of Justice's warnings over legally flawed

0:16.8

auto pen pardons.

0:19.6

Senior Justice Department officials were left scrambling to, quote, interpret the sweeping

0:25.7

clemency orders.

0:27.5

Former President Joe Biden approved for thousands of federal convicts in his final days

0:33.5

and final hours in office.

0:35.6

And they chastised the White House for falsely portraying the releases as limited to, quote,

0:44.4

nonviolent offenders.

0:46.5

This according to internal emails have now been revealed.

0:51.3

The records obtained by the oversight project and reviewed by the Washington

0:56.3

examiner now reveal that former associate deputy attorney general, the department's top

1:03.3

career official at the time, Bradley Weinschimer, raised alarms immediately after Biden

1:09.4

issued three auto-pin signed warrants on January the 17th,

1:15.7

covering nearly 2,500 inmates were now learning.

1:22.5

In a January 18th message to the White House counsel and the Department of Justice office of the

1:29.8

partner attorney, Weinsheimer, wrote that one warrant granted clemency for offenses

1:35.9

described to the Department of Justice, was so vague it could not be lawfully even carried out,

1:43.7

quote unquote.

1:45.0

He went on to say at the time, I think the language is highly problematic, adding that to

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