In a wave of last-minute pardons for people who he says never broke the law, President Biden pardoned not only members of the Biden Mafia, including brother James, but also Anthony Fauci, former chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney, a member of the select committee to probe the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Biden issued the pardons because, he said, these people face reprisals from incoming President Donald Trump.
He also commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, the radical American Indian activist who murdered two FBI agents in 1975.
The Biden Mafia
Biden pardoned his family members who profited from the global financial shenanigans of his brother, James, and son, Hunter, whom Daddy Biden pardoned weeks ago.
None of them, of course, are guilty of wrongdoing.
“My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” Biden said just minutes before Trump took the oath of office. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”
“Biden’s action pardoned James B. Biden, his brother; Sara Jones Biden, James’s wife; Valerie Biden Owens, Mr. Biden’s sister; John T. Owens, Ms. Owens’s husband; and Francis W. Biden, Mr. Biden’s brother,” The New York Times reported.
“I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics,” said Biden, whose son sold his name as the Biden “brand.”
GOP House investigators found that the business dealings of Hunter and James brought in at least $24 million to the Biden family in what might be the most remarkable case of self-dealing in history. No wonder Biden pardoned the gang.
But Biden didn’t stop there. Apparently afraid that Cheney, Milley, Fauci, and the rest might face prosecution for myriad crimes, Biden got them off the hook.
Pardoning the Jan. 6 Committee
He pardoned the Jan. 6 committee members and staff. “On January 6, 2021, American democracy was tested when a mob of insurrectionists attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a fair and free election by force and violence,” Biden said:
In light of the significance of that day, Congress established the bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol to investigate and report upon the facts, circumstances, and causes of the insurrection. The Select Committee fulfilled this mission with integrity and a commitment to discovering the truth. Rather than accept accountability, those who perpetrated the January 6th attack have taken every opportunity to undermine and intimidate those who participated in the Select Committee in an attempt to rewrite history, erase the stain of January 6th for partisan gain, and seek revenge, including by threatening criminal prosecutions. …
I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing. Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.
In Cheney’s case, Biden protected her from a possible prosecution for suborning perjury and witness tampering for her unethical conversations with a key J6 Committee witness. As The New American reported when Biden gave Cheney the Presidential Citizens Medal, Cheney guided the testimony of witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
Milley & Fauci
After Trump “lost” the election and in the final days of his presidency, Milley contacted his counterpart in China, General Li Zuocheng, and told him that if the United States were about to attack China, he, Milley, would let Zuocheng know ahead of time. Milley also discussed disobeying Trump’s orders for an attack with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). GOP congressmen wanted Milley investigated for treason.
Of Fauci, Biden claimed that he’s only a step removed from Albert Schweitzer for his role at NIAID, which he ran for 40 years.
Fauci could have faced his own legal travails. He perjured himself before a Senate committee, an expert said, when he said the United States did not subsidize gain-of-function research in China. That illegal research almost certainly created the Covid-19 virus that spread globally from a lab in Wuhan. Fauci also said the lab-leak hypothesis for the virus was a debunked “conspiracy theory.”
Biden disingenuously said of the pardons:
The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense. Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.
Peltier’s Murders
To his credit, Biden didn’t claim, as murderer Peltier’s backers do, that he was “wrongfully convicted.”
Biden commuted his sentence to home confinement:
He is now 80 years old, suffers from severe health ailments, and has spent the majority of his life (nearly half a century) in prison. This commutation will enable Mr. Peltier to spend his remaining days in home confinement but will not pardon him for his underlying crimes.
Those underlying crimes were the ruthless work of a deranged, far-left radical.
A member of the defunct American Indian Movement, Peltier shot FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams to death in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He murdered both at close range with shots to the head.
