If Politico, CBS News, and the New York Times are to be believed, President Biden is considering blanket pardons for numerous allies for crimes they have neither been charged with in a court of law nor been found guilty of or sentenced for. Biden's politicization of the criminal justice system is now on steroids.
The irony of it all is that some Democrat leaders believe that it is Trump who will weaponize the justice system. Former President Barack Obama, who started it all when he unleashed his DOJ and FBI to go after the Trump campaign in 2016 through phony FISA surveillance requests, said while speaking at a Democracy Forum:
One side tries to stack the deck and lock in [very long pause]...A permanent grip on power, either by actively suppressing votes or politicizing the armed forces or using the judiciary, criminal justice system to go after opponents.
If you are in sheer disbelief, you're not alone.
After January 6, 2021, the odds of President Trump returning to the national stage were extraordinarily remote. His opponents saw a fabulous opening to link him to the events on the Capitol complex, although he had urged his supporters not to engage in violence. Recent evidence shows that Trump had indeed offered 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol. Former Speaker Pelosi had turned it down because she wanted to link the potential chaos and mayhem to Trump.
For the events of Jan 6, the House impeached Trump again. If this was not political persecution of an opponent, what is?
Pelosi promptly appointed a partisan J6 Committee, which operated for 18 months under federal funding and even conducted primetime TV proceedings to nail Trump. Mysteriously, the Committee lost all the records of its investigation after it was disbanded following a Republican takeover of the House. Four months prior, the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago while it treated Biden's infractions with classified documents with kid gloves. Who was doing the political persecution, President Obama?
The Democratic lawfare campaign against Trump started in November 2022, when President Biden, glowing under the lights of White House press cameras as he celebrated the Democrats' better-than-expected mid-term election, let the secret slip in one of his biggest blunders to date.
Biden: "We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if he does run, making sure he — under legitimate efforts of our Constitution — does not become the next president again."
Exactly nine days later, on November 18, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Jack Smith as Special Counsel to investigate Trump's role in J6 and his handling of the classified documents. Fulton County prosecutors brought racketeering charges against Trump, but before they did, they met with the Biden White House twice, in May and November 2022. The latter meeting happened on November 18, the day Garland announced Smith as his Special Counsel. Any comments here, President Obama?
The E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump New York City case was a civil suit, but it was also strategically planned to constrain Trump at every turn. Three states—Colorado, Maine, and Illinois—ruled through their courts or executives that Trump could not be on their state ballots for the primary or general elections. The Supreme Court intervened and ruled 9-0 to end to that nonsense. In the Manhattan case brought by DA Alvin Bragg, no court in the world- not even a Kangaroo court- would have brought 8-year-old charges against the former leader of the Free World four years after he left office. Even less likely would it have convicted him of all 34 counts of clerical violations such as invoicing, checks, and ledger entries when no one was harmed. Who had a permanent grip on power, President Obama?
Despite all these remarkable odds against him, Trump, running again in the GOP primaries and eschewing all debates, won both Iowa and New Hampshire with such lopsided margins that nearly all of his opponents dropped out, with the exception of Nicki Haley, who stayed alive with Democratic and TDS funds. Trump beat Biden convincingly in the June 27 Atlanta debate, prompting Democratic leaders like Obama to dump the sitting President and replace him with an incompetent, unprepared Kamala Harris.
By November 5, 2024, Trump had weathered two House impeachments, 94 court cases, two assassination attempts, and a hostile media environment for eight years. The American people detested and rejected your tactics of division, President Obama, and voted for Trump electing him as the country's 47th president- the first president since 1892 to win non-consecutive terms. Trump won 312 electoral votes and the popular vote, carrying all seven battleground states.
Your party fired the first shots across the bow, President Obama —not just one shot, but hundreds, as we documented above. Since the time of Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty (circa 1754 BCE), one of the earliest known legal codes has included the right to self-defense. Over the next 3,750 years, humans have come to agree that any actions taken in self-defense should be proportional and reasonable, especially when it is determined that the aggressor engaged in unlawful conduct that threatened harm.
That list of aggressors against President-elect Trump (and, by extension, the American people) is long - too long: Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; California Democratic Senator-elect Adam Schiff; former Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney; former FBI Director James Comey; and former NSC member Alexander Vindman - these individuals woke up every day thinking of how they could deviously employ bombastic-sounding principles of the rule of law, democracy, and freedom to destroy a person who was also a leader of the Free World. Clearly, every Trump critic is not on this list, and this is by design. The most egregious aggressors should face their destinies by enduring meticulous investigations, lawyering up at great expense, being criminally indicted for conspiracies, and facing jail time. It was the same treatment and outcomes that these aggressors fervently wished on Trump - but the American voter was too mature to let it happen.
Granting presidential pardons is, of course, Biden's exclusive prerogative. But, in a potential act that amounts to an abomination of all morality, news reports are saying that Biden is considering blanket preemptive pardons for these aggressive enemies of 76 million American voters.
If Biden resorts to this action, using the system to protect people from legitimate prosecution, it would be nothing short of reprehensible. Doing so is worse than using the criminal justice system to go after opponents, which Biden and his allies have been doing nonstop for seven years.
