Anytime the professional leftists lose anything, they immediately become victims. Whether defeated in the battle of ideas (retreat to safe spaces), defeated in the field of pop culture, or even defeated linguistically through debate (words are violence). Whenever the professional left loses, they immediately become victims. It’s what they do.
The professional political left, newest version from the Chicago spawn of Dohrn/Ayers, has been waging full combat Lawfare via a weaponized government for the past 16 years. However, Obama/Plouffe were defeated, “their kind” rose again and won the 2024 U.S. Presidential election.
What we see in this “preemptive pardon” narrative, is a repeat of the victim narrative. This time the White House discussion boils down to ‘Lawfare agents must be protected from any retaliation for their action’. Pardons presumably provide the mechanism to protect the victims. In the big picture of ideology, this is a continuation of the same mindset.
Politico started the narrative with an outline {SEE HERE} saying the White House was having an internal debate as to whether Joe Biden should preemptively issue pardons to members of the J6 committee, members who constructed false impeachment accusations, members within the DOJ who fabricated political cases using the Special Counsel process, or generally people on the political left who supported/facilitated all the aforementioned false attack fronts.
As the narrative is told, all those who supported the attacks against President-Elect Trump and his allies, now need to be protected from “retribution.” Inherent in the argument, and within the use of pardons, is the baseline that some form of illegal activity was taking place. Heck, if it wasn’t unlawful conduct, then no pardon would be needed. This is the political catch-22 created by the preemptive pardon narrative.
Various congressional people, DOJ insiders, White House liaisons, State Dept officials and underling staff are all possible recipients if Joe Biden decides to take this unprecedented approach. However, if you look at the expressed approach indicated by President Trump and the assembly of cabinet members who would be in place to carry out such “retribution,” you will not find any indication of intent. Quite the opposite is true.
President Trump does not appear to be in alignment with any approach that would lead to legal indictments, arrests, charges or other legal accountability measures. Beyond the public release of hidden, perhaps classified information that might put sunlight on the previous activity by those who weaponized their offices, there is nothing. Sunlight on prior events, while moving forward to restore functioning law and order, appears to be the most likely approach.
WASHINGTON DC – […] The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them.
The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel but include a range of other aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients. The president himself, who was intensely focused on his son’s pardon, has not been brought into the broad. (Read more)
In addition to their professional victim approach, the one constant with the Marxist left is their use of projection. They weaponized government, so they anticipate the target of their weaponization efforts, Donald Trump, will return fire in kind. Again, I highly doubt it.
All outward indications are that President Trump wants to create a legacy presidency for the Gen-Z generation (Barron), similar to what was created by Ronald Reagan for the Gen-X generation. Selecting Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff is the strongest indication of this intent.
The appointments to White House legal counsel positions and Main Justice legal offices by President Donald Trump all appear to have one common denominator, to protect the President. I strongly doubt there will be any effort beyond that.
♦BIG PICTURE – Once you understand what President Trump is assembling (the phalanx) and once you accept the mission of the DC system to defend itself by isolating a weak spot in the mechanism, then everything from the assembly of the cabinet to the process being discussed makes sense.
Within a phalanx, if one shield drops the entire construct is compromised. The strongest shields need to surround the core with ferocity.
The recent Supreme Court decision affirmed the President of the United States as the unitary, plenary power that controls every mechanism of the Executive Branch of government, and as long as the President is acting within his “official duty” he holds absolute power and absolute immunity.
Think of each cabinet member as a shield in this political phalanx that surrounds the weapon, President Trump.
Yes, the phalanx is by construct an offensive fortification used to advance upon the enemy. However, the strength of the phalanx is its ability to be impervious to attack from 360°.
The phalanx advances, inch by inch against a larger fortification. In the transition team assembly, this is what President Trump is putting together.
Hegseth is a key component of the phalanx, the fortification process that puts President Trump at the center of the cabinet. Each component of the cabinet protecting the center.
The phalanx is the mechanism to carry the weapon that is President Donald Trump. The DC UniParty is looking for a weakness in the phalanx like a wolf circling a porcupine.
President Donald Trump has turned his focus to the “war fighters,” the men and women who carry out the mission objective of the Defense Department. The nomination of Pete Hegseth represents the confrontation of a power struggle that has been decades in coming.
The self-serving Senators are trying to block Hegseth, while maintaining a position of pretending support for President Trump. The DeceptiCon republicans in the Senate are in full circling mode, looking for a weakness to exploit.
The schemes of the conniving Republican Senators are transparently visible in the efforts of Senator Joni Ernst, who is circling the phalanx President Trump is creating – while simultaneously inserting herself into the DOGE mission.
Ernst is doing Mitch’s work, under the instructions from Thune and Mitch. See Ernst with clear eyes.
One does not become unattached to corrupt intent.
CLEAR EYES!
🚨Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst — who happily voted for LLoyd Austin to run DoD —
— explains that right now, she is not a “yes” vote for Pete Hegseth. pic.twitter.com/zlPsyj7tgc
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 5, 2024
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I did not think President-elect Trump had the accurate laser vision for the task.
I was getting concerned.
Then I saw this…
Then I saw the *very specific* wording of this…
The McGinley move makes a lot of sense. DOGE and the Office of Management and Budgets (OMB) are going to be joined at the hip. They are going to have to navigate the Impoundment Control Act, challenging the system that places limits on a president’s ability to unilaterally withhold funding.
Inside that legal battle, deciding what DOGE can do without legislative approval, the OMB is going to be the execution part. McGinley will be the legal liaison focused on what technical approaches DOGE/OMB can execute. In essence, can they stop funding XXXX, thereby eliminating it?
That said, that’s not the important part.
The language President Trump is using to describe the role of David A. Warrington, the switched White House Counsel, is something entirely new.
Donald Trump says: “to serve as Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President. Dave will lead the Office of White House Counsel and serve as the top attorney in the White House.”
Normally the White House Counsel does not represent the interests of the President, the WHC represents the interests of the office.
I would appear to me, at least as I review the details, that President Trump is now fully aware how his Presidential interests can sometimes conflict with the interests of the White House Counsel, and he is making a move to ensure that conflict doesn’t happen.
An example of the conflict I have explained repeatedly in the “declassification of information.”
Not kidding, it is almost as if someone very close to President Trump read something I previously outlined, because it came with a serious warning borne out of years of frustration.
…[…] “In Term-1 the IC message to the WH Counsel was that if Donald Trump declassified any documents, they would use the DOJ (special counsel weapon) to attack the office of the president for “obstructing justice.” The WHC was fraught with fear over what would happen and demanded that POTUS Trump stop trying to declassify information/documents the IC didn’t support.”
The way President Trump is now portraying the role of the White House Counsel is to represent his interests first and foremost, then represent the interests of the office. In a few subtle, and not so subtle ways, this makes sense.
We can tell by the nominations to AG, DAG and DAG-NSD, that Main Justice is already positioned to defend and protect President Donald Trump. The people in charge of the silo are all loyalty-first people, aligned in the interests of President Trump.
It would appear that President Trump is now bringing that same outlook into the White House. The White House Counsel aligning in common purpose, with the specific purpose of executing the intentions of President Donald J Trump.
I’m glad to see this approach, because as I have repeatedly affirmed, ONLY PRESIDENT TRUMP (the person) can confront the Silo system in Washington DC.
That’s why the phalanx makes sense.
Can a president pardon all illegal immigrants.
I think he probably can.
He can’t give them citizenship, so they would still not have legal status and therefore be subject to deportation, imo.
Also he would have to identify and name them individually, like he could not pardon all murderers in general.
He would have to pardon named individuals.
SCOTUS has ruled that the President has unlimited powers in terms of pardons. So if Biden wanted to pardon all the illegal aliens, he may NOT have to specifically name them. Jimmy Carter did a “blanket” pardon for all Vietnam War draft evaders (but it did not cover actual deserters). So “blanket” pardons have been done before. However they have never been challenged in court, so they may or may not hold up and something like this could end up being decided by SCOTUS.
Aaaarrrgggghhh!
Unlikely because he’d have to violate the laws of the land. I think SCOTUS would not allow such a move, if it did the president could allow anyone and everyone to enter the USA without consequence. Seem likely to you?
Oh yeah, he’s already done multiple treasonous & unconstitutional actions, all aimed to destroy this country. I would like to think it couldn’t wouldn’t happen, but just thought of that expression actions speak louder than words.
Yesterday, I read this, and after reading it I wouldn’t put it past him. A very interesting read, especially the last few paragraphs. The last line “RICO is the key and Throckmorton is the answer.” was interesting, but I don’t quite understand how the Throckmorton ruling could help.
“Examining the Hunter Biden Pardon Through the Lens pf RICO Crimes- The only option, the plan from the beginning”
https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/examining-the-hunter-biden-pardon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Throckmorton
The pardon is a plenary power and as such is soley at the discretion of the POTUS.
What the president can do in your example is provide amnesty for all illegals which has been done before.
Heck, why not?
He is able to pardon the illegal entry, but not the ongoing crime of being here illegally.
Apply the concept to a more egregious crime and you can see why. The president can’t pardon a kidnapper who is still holding a victim prisoner. The initial kidnapping can be pardoned. Not the ongoing illegal confinement, because it continues occurring into the future.
Imagine the dangerous power a president would have if they could pardon ongoing and future crimes.
Gee….based on the way the demonrats figure…….do whatever you can and try to get away with it while in power, and then when leaving power….just pardon everybody.
Is that what we should do? Use the system, weaponize it and do whatever we can to them through the weaponized system while in power….then..if down the road these demons were to win again….our President could just pardon everybody that was involved. That’s what they are doing. Of course we won’t.
But by GOD…….these evil fricking criminals better have some accountability or we the people are not going to be happy! And there’s a lot of fricking garbage from these demons that we need accountability for. There is no turning the other cheek and forgiving these evil people. You don’t forgive evil. You destroy it! You never let it rise again! You don’t cross the isle, shake their hands and make fricking deals with them!
You destroy and eliminate evil because you, we, one……can not and never will….unite with demons. And that establishment in that fricking swamp is full of these entities!
Leave vengeance to the Lord and walk in His peace.
See Jesus with the money lenders in the Temple. Why do you think the Lord created hell because he forgave everyone?
Spare the rod ……spoil the child. I think you are confusing appropriate punishment/accountability with vengeance.
And we know who some of those enemies are that were on our side of the isle but not for US, like “Glitch” Mitch from Kentucky, Capito from WV., Coryn from Texas, Collins from Maine, and Murkowski from Alaska who always side with the Democrats. Too many enemies within on the Republican side for them to ever win anything or to pass anything meaningful in Congress.
So, there be no ‘swamp draining’ or DOJ/Dems retributions because PDJT needs a Reagan type legacy?
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Rubbish: I was hoping for the second shot heard around the world, the first one has a great legacy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_heard_round_the_world#:~:text=The%20%22%20shot%20heard%20round%20the%20world%20%22,led%20to%20the%20creation%20of%20the%20United%20States.
A large majority of the voters who carried Mr. Trump across the finish line are the exact same people who wanted to see the swamp drained and a lot of the useless hacks removed. Yes the main reason the Donald Trump was given another chance is because he said he was going to make America great again and that means making drastic changes, OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW.
A pardon is supposed to involve merit that overides conviction, though who’s conception of merit is, of course, the executive’s. In this case the conception of merit seems to be that if you legitimately broke the law, you have merit. This is merit simply based on guilt. This concept is that of a king. It is giving the middle finger to “we the people”, as if to say, “You have your system of law and justice, but we are above that. We stipulate our guilt but won’t be subject to a conviction. We will not be damaged or destroyed by a conviction, as would you, as would a J6 victim. We will continue on with our lives as if we did nothing wrong.”
It would be a waste, IMHO, if the new Administration wasted it’s time, energy, and money, focused on retribution. I would be happy if the swamp rats moved on. Sunlight is the best disinfectant! Let the Pelosi’s and Cheneys and all the rest scurry off into their dark corners filled with filthy money and waste away, having no further influence on American politics. Set the prisoners, and us, free to rebuild America the way she should be.
The corollary is the abused spouse getting away from the abuser. The best method is a CLEAN BREAK, not years in court trying to prove who did what to whom. NO CONTACT. Walk away. Give them NOTHING in terms of attention – not even a legal one.
In the example you cite you are correct. Unfortunately there is no escape from sociopaths who will once again have all the levers of power. There is no safe place to get away from them when they are able to lie, cheat and steal their way back to power.
Perhaps another example is appropriate: if the abuser keeps stalking the spouse who has escaped sometimes what’s needed is a visit from concerned friends or relatives, who then beat the ever-living snot out of that abuser and remind him what happens if he comes around again. metaphorically of course.
Please excuse my naïveté. But how do you pardon an act that has not been defined? Without a formal filing as in an indictment, imagine pre-pardoning a serial killer that killed 27 people, but no law enforcement agency has as yet identified that individual as the psychopath? I imagine SCOTUS might want to look into the limits of the POTUS pardon power without any basis in reality.
Won’t happen. SCOTUS already defined the President’s core powers as absolute, and no other branch, including the judiciary, can interfere. Further, folks are focusing on an incorrect assumption that a pardon requires a conviction first, which it does not. A pardon can do several things depending on the stage when it is granted. If granted post-conviction, it erases criminal liability (prison sentence and/or fine) and restores rights lost from the conviction. If granted pre-conviction, it terminates any pending criminal proceedings. The question many have is whether a pardon can be granted prior to an investigation, indictment, or charging bill. The answer must be yes, as it is the conduct constituting a crime that is forgiven, which is not dependent on discovery of the crime. If that was not the case, a prosecutor could simply wait for the sitting President to leave office and then prosecute. But this could undermine and neuter a President’s pardon power, which is plenary. A pardon does not erase the records of any investigation, criminal proceeding, or conviction; it only eliminates the criminal liabilities facing the recipient of the pardon. Even if FJB grants preemptive pardons, Trump’s DOJ should still conduct criminal investigations, prepare reports, and release them to the public to identify and expose all the criminal conduct of pardon recipients.
With Corrupted Democrat Presidents. Which is the head of the snake there will never be accountability. It’s easy to see why ALL of DC hate trump..corruption is the true cause of TDS.
I remember shock and awe.
The Phalanx needs to use it.
On Day 1, in the key areas that will resist 90% of the resisters need to be fired. Get the bad guys out of the system. Make someone other than the taxpayers fund the resistance.
Sounds like when Biden leaves, he’s taking the country out with him. Never let a crisis go to waste and he’s definitely using every ounce of it to make more for the future.
IMO Trump still wants to grind the stolen election ax. If he can prove that 2020 was stolen, would that invalidate any of
Biden’s pardons?
I would think hope so, see my post up above. From my understanding (was hard to grok at times) the article I read yesterday it sounded like it would. But, I’m not a lawyer…
I’ve included the link to make it easier:
https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/examining-the-hunter-biden-pardon
2020 was stolen. Fact
SD your insight it uncanny. Please do tell, have you PDJT’s ear?
The ability to pardon must be limited and restricted. The president must not be able to pardon his family members. He should also be limited to say 10 pardons per year, any others must be approved by both houses of the Congress.
The bankruptcy of the Democrats and this nation is on display for all to see when the judicial system is used as a star chamber.
Get rid of the commissars in judges robes and all the DAs that torture the truth. The members of SCOTUS should serve a ten year period and must retire when they reach 70 years of age. Also the court should be augmented to ten, but any decision required 7 votes. Without this the issue must be referred back to the Congress for clarification.
Perhaps researching separation of powers should be in your future . . .
At a Minimum. If Joe’s Handlers want him to issue Blanket Pardons (legal, constitutional?) then let’s see a list of these as yet unknown Crimes these people are being pardoned for.
It seems like if you engaged in illegal activity to cripple your political opponent and then pardoned those who engaged in illegal activity to ensure your victory that there would be some inherent conflict of interest. Otherwise, what would prevent ruthless tyrants from engaging in such tactics ?
Who is issuing all these pardons while Biden has been in Africa and Que mala is crying in her bottle of whatever adult beverage she chooses? These are major announcments which in past practice has been publicly announced by the POTUS. Who has signed the pardons/commutations? Is his staff using a rubber stamp of his signature? He’s shown that he’s not capable of making these decisions and barely able to read a teleprompter announcing any moves. Someone needs to dig deep, into this. It may not be legal.
The Presidential pardon does not apply to state laws that were broken. AG’s in Republican states can still indict someone like Fauci for the damage he caused to those states by his corrupt actions at the Federal level.
BRILLIANT analysis . Right, Barron is Gen -Z.
“President Trump does not appear to be in alignment with any approach that would lead to legal indictments, arrests, charges or other legal accountability measures. Beyond the public release of hidden, perhaps classified information that might put sunlight on the previous activity by those who weaponized their offices, there is nothing. Sunlight on prior events, while moving forward to restore functioning law and order..”
So Kash is speaking in the opposite fashion. Do you think that is on purpose? Does the talk from Kash now serve as simply rocking the boat and having the rats exposing themselves. And having a laugh at how they are losing sleep?
I have 2 minds about this.
But that attitude backfires on us all of the time.
There has to be accountability or everything PT does to correct the system will easily be undone….remember they won’t hesitate to break the law and ignore the constitution. I do not care if he only goes after the very top…..DOJ, Fauci, FBI, Special Council, J6 committee. Cut the head of the snake off and fire the rest.
Let them pardon fauci…milly….Lizzie…anyone else ..like hunter they no longer have a 5th amm protection when hauled before Congress.,.or a grand jury ..lie they can be hit with perjury….they also aren’t immune from state charges….they can run .but can’t hide.
I hear plenty of talk about accepting a pardon invalidating one 5th amendment right not to self incriminate but don’t know if that’s actual case law or simply an untested legal theory that would probably end up before the Supreme Court. Can anyone weigh in if they are certain/can cite sources?
It would make all the upcoming pardons easier to accept if it meant a great deal of disclosure/confirmation of misdeeds by our gruberment and its officials. The Left and legacy media constructing their spin and propaganda ahead of the pardons is so blatant it would almost be funny if it weren’t so annoying. I’m thankful the credibility of those entities appears to be near an all time low.
If President Trump and his group going into office don’t go after at least some of the criminals that have attacked him over the years there will be A LOT of disappointed voters. I’m mean specifically those that in fact broke the law.
Don’t know the law about pardons but Mirriam Webster says:
the excusing of an offense without exacting a penalty
a release from the legal penalties of an offense
an official warrant of remission of penalty
excuse or forgiveness for a fault, offense, or discourtesy
Seems to me that pardons can only be given if there is an offense. Hunter? OK. But someone who has not been charged or even under investigation can not be pardoned. Even then, what’s to stop anyone from opening an investigation just so the person can be pardoned? Talk about corruption!
Using the lefty logic like the stupid accusation of Trump hiring seal team 6 for murder, any president could conspire with anyone to do anything because all they would need is a preemptive pardon to get away with it. That can’t be constitutional.
“Heck, if it wasn’t unlawful conduct, then no pardon would be needed.” – – Their argument will be to thwart illegal Lawfare against them.
“Sunlight on prior events, while moving forward to restore functioning law and order, appears to be the most likely approach.” – – Until the next Democrat administration. It’s like refilling the National Oil Reserve. Are we going to fall for that one, again?
It seems to me that the criminals are getting away with it and all they have to do is lie low for four years to start ’emptying the National Oil Reserve, again.
They might want to be careful as to which genie they let out of the bottle.
The year is 2027. The election is over and PDJT has announced that all members of his administration and all MAGA voters have been granted an unconditional and blanket pardon for all things they may or may not have been involved in from the moment of their birth up until the present day.