Timothy Birdnow

The weaponization of the pardon.

Politico Predicts Biden Will Pardon Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff

If Biden does pardon these three perjurors then they cannot hide behind the fifth amendment if called before Congress to testify. I almost hope that this happens; they probably would avoid criminal conviction anyway, but if they are pardoned they are wide open to civil action that can ruin them.

Pardons are only good for criminal acts, not civil suits.

BTW here is one opinion on the legality or lack thereof of Biden's pardon of his son. I think there is grounds for a court challenge, if you ask me.

Personally I would have liked to see Trump issue a pardon for Hunter-provided he sang like a canary, which I suspect he would have if facing a long prison sentence; it would have shown Trump can be magnanimous. Hunter broke the law, no question, but probably not much more than everyone else in that cesspool. But since Biden did it we need to ride this thing, profit as much as possible. As Rahm Emmanuel pointed out, one should never let a good crisis go to waste.

Even if Biden pardons the dirty trio there need to be a blizzard of lawsuits against them, and they need to face a very hostile series of inquiries by Congress.

I am particularly eager to see Liz Chaney get hers; she isn't just an enemy but a renegade, a backstabbing quisling who switched sides as soon as she believed the political winds dictated. I hate Schiff but understand him. He's a scorpion and scorpions sting. But Chaney pretended to be one of us until she found favor with the Democrats and joined what she thought was the winning side. Ditto Nicki Haley.

At any rate it will be interesting to see if Biden takes this step. Shoot; why not pardon the whole Democratic Party while he's at it?

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