Literally minutes before he leaves office, Joe Biden just issued blanket pardons for his closest family. Having previously pardoned Hunter Biden, the departing executive just pardoned his brothers, James and Frank, along with his sister Valerie, and their spouses.
The Biden family crime syndicate, those who engaged in the benefit of Joe Biden selling the influence of his office for financial gain, are attempting to preemptively pardon themselves from any investigation or prosecution of their criminal conduct.
White House – […] That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden. The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense. (read more)
Recent legal debate has surrounded the issue of a prosecutor who may bring an indictment against a person after they have been issued a pardon. The state may present evidence of the crime. The defendant may (or may elect not to) present exculpatory evidence or a defense and also plead the pardon.
The court might (or might not) proceed to render a verdict or judgment. If convicted, the defendant may (or may not) invoke the pardon, which prevents any criminal sentence from being issued. (i.e., the defendant may prefer obtaining a verdict of “not guilty” to a pardon.)
The defendant may be called as a witness (in another forum; and interestingly but unclear, in the subject prosecution). Following a pardon, the defendant likely cannot invoke the 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, which is significant.
In the initial criminal court, it’s likely the defendant may be called as a witness, and then invoke the 5th Amendment at such trial, because the pardon has not been activated post-indictment. But this is an issue that would be contested; a lot of tactical decisions involved. I suspect that the evidence introduced at such trial (once re-authenticated) may be used in a civil trial and/or an impeachment of the defendant (despite the criminal pardon).
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Biden also commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, unrepentant murderer of two FBI agents. Peltier will go to “home arrest.” Even Wray was opposed.
I am glad for this release. It is about time.
Yes, I have a lot of questions about that prosecution. I don’t trust the FBI but I also don’t trust these people to pardon the right victims.
lol, just realized based on Trump’s comment in speech: Jack Smith is the only one who didn’t get a get out of jail free card 😂😂😂😂
Neither did Merrick Garland.
He was confirmed by the senate, Jack Smith was a civilian impersonating a federal official.
And Col. Fat bastard didn’t get one (vindman).
He’d be a good starting point for pressure testing
Did Mike Pence get a pardon? He was the Deep State mole in the White House.
I did see a guillotine but no hanging scaffold. I guess they think there is a difference.
Vindman didn’t get one either.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/wife-impeachment-liar-alexander-vindman-rages-biden-not/
Vindman as well.
Neither did Biden himself. Trump DOJ should look into his wrongdoing before becoming President.
Majorcas, Garland, Smith, many more. Biden only takes care of his own.
No matter what Biden family are corrupt and crime in The USA,
Biden didn’t pardon himself, and it’s too late now.
Everyone he did pardon must now answer questions under oath about Biden’s complicity in their crimes. Use their answers to prosecute Biden.
Biden’s only “defense” will be his claimed and evident dementia.
Then use his evident dementia as grounds to declare his pardons invalid as they were not made by a president in command of his own faculties.
Then, with his pardons declared invalid due to them having been imposed on him by others and his “signature” having been obtained under false pretenses, prosecute everyone previously ‘pardoned’ using both their previous sworn testimony as well as all the evidence against them.
Boom.
Yes, BOOM! Lol
As the World Turns. I like your thinking.
Love the cut of your Jib.
The J6 defendants are still in lock up because they have not yet been convicted, so no pardon is authorized.
If true, how can these bribem pardons be legal if there is no crime and no convictions?
‘Biden’s’ defense will be, “I’m not Joe Biden; you’ve got the wrong guy”. Think about all those executive orders…
They may not be able to prosecute the Biden Crime Family, but there’s no reason they can’t force them to disgorge their ill-gotten, stolen loot. Including the Big Guy’s cut.
Every damn dollar of it. And then force them to pay unpaid taxes on the plunder that they’ve already spent.
When PDJT was reading about the atrocities committed by the last admin, slojo looked like he was wondering who did all that?
Well Joe, it was you….believe it or not. The last minute pardon of his family was low life…even for him. He’s like the guy getting on a crowded elevator, and cuts one. Just soooo bad- even for a pedo like him.
It was a team getting on that elevator… and a team toot. 1 dementia senior can’t possibly stink the elevator all on its own.
Trump To Suspend Security Clearances For CIA Contractors Who Colluded To Discredit Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Accepting preemptive pardons is an invitation to lawlessness and is in fact the death of a nation.
An administration with a lock on power could disregard the law with impunity if they can be pardoned for all offensives they may have committed.
Imagined convictions, charges, crimes can not be pardoned – they must exist and be specified in the pardon.
Sounds more like he gave them immunity. Not a power he had.
I expect these pre-emptive pardons to be challenged and end up before SCOTUS
There is already precedent with Nixon’s ‘any and all crimes” pardon. I don’t like what Biden did, but I suspect they will stand up.
I don’t agree with that pardon but it could be argued, as Ford did, that a “prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety” of prosecuting a president would harm the nation – the “tranquility” of the nation “could be irreparably lost”. That is not at all the case with Biden’s ridiculous “pardons”.
It’s not the old president we’re prosecuting… it’s the syndicate who controlled him for 4 years.
There is no established SCOTUS precedent that I know of. Yes, Ford pardoned Nixon, but it was never challenged in court. All Trump’s AG and FBI Director need to do is start sending out subpoenas to the “pardoned” and we’ll see how fast those appeals start. There is going to be a big desire to keep Mary McCord’s activities quiet. No sunlight. The Biden pardons just shined a great big light on criminal activity.
Sounds expensive. I like it.
But what if President Trump follow through on his assertion to investigate the 2020 election and they discover that it was fraudulent and President Trump won by a material margin? What happens to presidential pardons when a president who went through all the machinations of being a president for four years is discovered to not have been president at all? Ask the right questions.
And don’t forget…..a Presidential pardon does not stop prosecution on charges that brought by a State prosecutor…..dual sovereignty rule and not barred by Fifth Amendment.
A Presidential Pardon does not take effect unless the suspect accepts it. That according to a little known, 1915 ruling from the Supreme Court, once accepted, the pardon serves as an “imputation of guilt,” or what’s more commonly known as an admission. Because accepting the pardon is “essential to it’s validity,” I am demanding the Biden family, Dr. Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the members of the J6 Committee and everyone else Biden unsurprisingly pardoned declare their acceptance of the pardon publicly. Because, according to the Supreme Court, it would also serve as a declaration of guilt.
THANKS TO GP
They will all accept it!
Proudly they will! They have no shame.
That’s fine. A pardon can’t stop a subpoena. Plenty of people involved in those frauds were not pardoned. The Vindman’s are already bitching about traitor Alex not getting one.
Not acceptable for the crimes they committed.
Scum
How do you pardon someone who has not been charged? What were they pardoned from income tax fraud? Treason?
Treason is not a pardonable offense.
This whole blanket pardon charade is beyond unconstitutional.
It needs to be challenged immediately.
The way to get them all is to go after all the useful idiots who enabled the crimes. Force the pardoned to testify since there’s no legal jeopardy. If they refuse or lie get the pardoned on the new crime of obstruction of justice and perjury. Also investigate and seize all of their ill gotten gains. They’ve been pardoned but they’re still in possession of ill gotten money and property. I’m sure it’s all co-mingled and everything can be seized. That’s how I’d get them.
About those pre-emptive Presidential pardons…..
Burdick vs. United States, 1915 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/
In the Syllabus section:
Quaere whether the President of the United States may exercise the pardoning power before conviction.
On page 239 US 93:
“It is hence contended by Burdick that the pardon is illegal for the absence of specification, not reciting the offenses upon which it is intended to operate — worthless therefore as immunity. To support the contention, cases are cited. It is asserted besides that the pardon is void as being outside of the power of the President under the Constitution of the United States because it was issued before accusation or conviction or admission of an offense. ”
The emphasis is mine.
I’m no expert in law; however, this ruling very much appears to negate pardons being issued prior to to the accusation/indictment stage. In short – if I understand this correctly, the person must have at least a list of accusations they could possibly be indicted for.
Furthermore, accepting the pardon apparently means also accepting the imputation of guilt for those same accusations/charges.
I would posit that this is the basis why President Ford pardoned Nixon – the House had already drawn up Articles of Impeachment (the accusations/charges) against President Nixon; it was the Republican House and Senate leaders who came to Nixon and told him he could either step down, or they would pull the trigger on the Articles of Impeachment for a certain guilty outcome.
Nixon accepted the guilt of those charges when he accepted Ford’s pardon.
Biden’s crime family and corrupt colleagues have not even been accused of crimes as yet. Popular assumption and reckoning does equal accusations before the court.
Biden may well have done people a favor. Those accepting those pardons may well find them null and void. If ruled that these do stand, then guilt for all crimes can be presumed imputed to them. This may well make civil prosecution much, much easier, as criminal guilt can be already assumed as confessed.
If I understand this correctly…
Well done! Tyler Nixon agrees with you. @realTylerNixon.
I bet all the court and lawyer costs to settle that will be astronomical for Mary McCord, Anthony Fauci, Miley, and the Biden crime family…
Really, the only way to get some sort of national reconciliation is a federal grand jury, preferably someplace where Democrats are less likely to have bought-and-paid-for judges.
Btw, Judge Steven Boasberg didn’t get a pardon…FISA “spying on Trump” Judge.
“Not an expert in law?” You sure about that? Excellent post on this beautiful freezing day!
https://x.com/JohnStrandUSA/status/1881477069034692610
The pardons aren’t worth the paper they were printed on.
President Trump signed pardon for 1,500 J6 prisoners including Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio this afternoon. Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for sedition. Tarrio is being processed out as we speak.
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881503382881607860
Tarrio was sentenced by a gestapo doj. Are you at LEAST willing to give him retrial ?
I am now confident that “we have not yet heard the Judicial end of this.”
If this wretch of a person was once deemed “too [whatever] to stand trial,” how can this person’s “pardons” and “executive orders” now be allowed to stand, uncontested?
“Obviously, it can’t.” But this is a “future SCOTUS ruling.”
Realistically, our Nation must now confront this: “We have not had ‘a President’ for the past four years!” The Office was held by “puppeteers,” because the so-called “occupant” was mentally incompetent in 2020.
“The short and long of it,” as will thereafter be endlessly analyzed by the Future Historians of this nation, will be: “Will this Nation continue to ‘Officially Pretend?'” Or, will it not?
Will it pretend that “Joe” was never “the Big Guy?” Will it pretend that “the son” never did anything wrong, and that his “now-vaporized (gotta luv God …) ‘artwork'” is still worth bezillions?
(“And … so on … and on and on and on and on and on and you get the idea so I’ll stop now …)
Therefore: will it now accept, as magically ‘legally binding,’ the “Executive Orders” and “Pardons” issued – very obviously on behalf of his own [crime-] family –by someone who was previously declared to be “too old”[i.e. “incompetent”] to be held legally accountable for his actions?
N-O. This will not happen today nor tomorrow, but “it is certainly not over yet.”
A pardon can not be based on some unnamed offense that hasn’t even been alleged. A pardon can’t be for some unparticularized imaginary offense, some amorphous phantasm, the offense must exist and be named.
A pardon must be based on fact, not imaginings.
In the next few weeks and months, these judicial questions will finally be confronted.
As the nation reels from a “deliberate and wanton abuse of power” that it has never before experienced.
Quite truthfully, “the Founders of our Country,” world-wise though they were at the time, certainly could not have conceived of what has just now actually been … ended.
“May you live in interesting times.™” Let us hope that this is not “a curse.” Because:
Someone needs some Butt Hurt Salve…
None of the Vindmans were included in that group of pardons, according to Alexander’s wife Rachel Vindman, who posted on Threads Monday morning about her “betrayal and hurt” over the omission.
“Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed,” she wrote. “I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.”
In other replies on Threads, Rachel Vindman responded to the breaking news about Biden’s pardons that her husband “is on a list of enemies and they talk about him all the time but he wasn’t offered shit.”
In response to a follower who asked her what the pardon would be for since “he did nothing wrong,” Rachel Vindman replied, “Neither did anyone else who was pardoned.”
A source familiar with the family’s discussions told Mediaite that the Vindmans had “tried to reach out” to the Biden White House but got “nothing” in response.
According to this source, some of the other people on the pardons list did not know it was coming and had not asked for it. The family’s concern, the source said, is while any threatened charges may not pass constitutional muster, the process would be extremely stressful and put them at risk for threats and harassment.
Rachel Vindman added an additional post with a succinct comment on the situation.
“F*CK YOU,” she wrote.
Fear has a distinct odor. Hard to miss
This sounds like a festering sore ready to be lanced.
A treasure trove of intelligence might be reaped from the vindmans.
Hurt by betrayal now, eh?
Go cry with Dr. Bitter Pills,… that fraud is still steaming at Nasty Nan’s betrayal that stopped her from running the WH for the next 4 years.
As Kahn said, “revenge is a dish best served cold!”
Rachel Vindman said her husband wasn’t offered shit.. I would be happy to give her a bucket of shit.
She already has one…
Please, that’s the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Vindman. (Traitorous pompous wind bag)
paging all red state AG’s
Ken Paxton
Andrew Bailey
you have some work to do!!!!!
Does all the money received by all the pardon recipients get pardoned too ?
I don’t think so
I found this explanation from @realTylerNixon why these “pardons” MUST be challenged. It also contains some corrections of misrepresentations of the Nixon “pardon”. I hope you all find this as enlightening and educational as I found it.
https://x.com/realTylerNixon/status/1881487259410837718
Interview:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yoJMyyDrlOJQ
Did he also pardon the cleaning lady? She probably knows a lot of secrets.
🚨BREAKING RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of January 6th Political Prisoners are being FREED from Federal Prison. Releases currently happening ACROSS the country.
When I asked a DOJ Insider how many J6 prisoners will be released they responded with one word: “All”
This is HISTORY
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1881483372893176022
THANK YOU, President YRUMP,…..
for restoring Justice to these newly released J6 victims of Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and Judice Pence’s conspiracy of Fedsetection!
Nothing screams innocent like blanket pardons going back 10 years. I wonder why the granddaughter wasn’t included. She was the recipient of some of the money for sure.
It will be interesting to see if R’s choose to depose them since the are obligated now to fully disclose everything since there is no legal jeopardy.
Damned well better be…
Per the supremes, “Unlike immunity, the court reasoned, a pardon “carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it.”
The Supreme Court has previously ruled that any acceptance of a presidential pardon is an admission of guilt!
This is in direct contradiction to then-President Biden’s statement today that acceptance of his pardons should not be misconstrued as an admission of guilt by any of those pardoned!
The case, Burdick vs United States was argued before SCOTUS and decided this very week, on January 25, 1915.
In its decision, SCOTUS ruled that if the witness, George Burdick, chose to refuse a pardon given him by then-President Woodrow Wilson, the President could not compel him to accept it. But if Burdick chose to accept the pardon, his acceptance carried with it an imputation of guilt and amounted to a confession that he had committed the offense for which he was pardoned.
SCOTUS further made the distinction between amnesty and a pardon, stating that the former carries no implied admission of guilt but that the latter merely remits punishment for an offense, but does not clear the recipient of guilt for that offense.
The bottom line is that, just as then-President Biden erroneously declared days ago that a 28th Amendment to the Constitution had been ratified when in fact there is no 28th Amendment, Biden has today falsely stated that acceptance of his Presidential pardons is not an admission of guilt, the Supreme Court over a century ago, ruled that acceptance of any Presidential pardon is, in fact, an admission of guilt.
I got a tingling sensation down my right leg when President Trump matter-of-factly called Adam Schiff “scum” while signing executive orders in the oval office.
Wise guy Joe forgot to pardon one especially corrupt Biden.
Himself.
Time to get to work, Trump DOJ.
I think Biden neglected to pardon Hillary, jack smith, Chris Wray, Nancy pelosi, norm eisen, Alvin Bragg , the crazy atlanta lady and her boyfriend or many others who need to be held to account
It bears noting that a president’s power to pardon pre-emptively has never been judicially tested.
Citing Ford’s pardon of the criminally uncharged Nixon is to simply cite an executive action precedent, and nothing more.
The left’s feverishly imagined potential Trump abuses in the wake of SCOTUS’ presidential immunity case makes for an interesting comparison to the magnitude of unlimited pardon authority.
But helpfully, Biden has dispensed with any requisite speculative component in his flurry of pardon outrages, and laid out an array of potential test cases for any determined U.S. Attorney to bring.
Testing the curious implied notion that of all the Constitution’s provisions, the pardon power stands alone as imposing no limiting principles in defining “Offenses against the United States.”
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More here:
Trump’s Martian Speech and more:
Revoking pardons. VIP tech. Valid oath? Speech analysis. Speech transcription (also in Spanish for immigrants).
https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/trumps-martian-speech-and-more
Instead of lengthy trials and paper talk, Bide has convicted his whole family. Will the Republicans Federally or in States take up the obvious court cases.
Ultra Crap Weasels
Sorry gang,
I do NOT believe that this “Chapter” is closed. Far from it.
It wasn’t Biden doin’ the signin’.
And it all will come out in time. Likely sooner than later.
No pardon for Dr Jill ?
I didn’t see Mary Macords name either!
He’s also pardoned Fauci! That needs to be revisited stat.
If Fauci is dumb enough to accept the pardon, then he also accepts the admission of guilt that pardon brings with it.
He is then open to all kinds of state criminal prosecution, as well as civil prosecution that would potentially bankrupt him.
The first order of business would be to have Congress put him back on the stand, then under penalties of perjury and contempt repeat his testimony about gain of function research on Covid, and his knowledge the Covid vaccines were proven deadly in animal research. The admission of guilt for “all crimes” necessarily strips Fauci of his 5th Amendment protection against incriminating himself.
Will these bureaucrats take the bait? Or will they be like the murderers who refused their pardons, knowing it would destroy their case appeals?
interesting, indeed.
Guilty.
That’s the message.
This is actually great. They can still be subpoenaed- only now, they have no 5th Amendment claim because their answers necessarily won’t be incriminating. BUT, if they defy a subpoena- they can be given the Steve Bannon treatment. AND if they comply and subsequently lie- they are NOT protected from a perjury charge.
Of course, the best way to deal with all of this is to crack open the 2020 election:
FVE – FRAUD VITIATES EVERYTHING
If Biden was never really POTUS- and we know he wasn’t- then nothing he did stands.
Impeach Jotard after the fact. He set the precedent!
The entire list of ‘Biden’ pardons should be retained as the first persons to be subpoenaed and deposed. No 5th Amendment protection, under penalty of perjury. Poetic.
Remember, fraud vitiates everything.
And “preemptive pardons” are not necessarily immutable.
See: 18 USC Chap. 73 and “Obstruction of Justice”
A pardon which seeks to obstruct the proper use and application of justice is obstruction and a direct violation of the presidential oath of office to uphold the law.
I don’t see anyone’s actual NAME cited on that pardon.
Can one pardon entire sets of people without naming the members of the set of individuals being pardoned? That does not make sense.
(See, also, my comments about pantographs, and fake signatures.)
It opens the door to endless bickering from people claiming in some way to be members of the set. We’ve already seen this in other realms, for over a century, in the US.
This is a feast for the lawyers, not a pardon – it’s calculated sabotage, intended to create a second line of defense, designed to create more delays so that the guilty can claim statutes of limitations are applicable.
Pardons associate with individuals and their individual acts. I do not see any indivduals named and I do not see any individual acts cited. Larry Ellison, himself, could go in there and associate himself with the effort through a few backdated donations and claim a full and complete pardon for all crimes past, present and future – see https://ca-civ393104.org for more information – and you’d be stuck with it, according to this logic.
I do not think this is a legitimate pardon, legally speaking. I think this is a prop to a narrative.
My sense is that those responsible have a list of all those they needed pardoned but the list was over a thousand names long and they knew the optics would destroy the Democratic Party – we’re talking about a stack of paper that is over two 500-sheet packages of printer paper tall – and that people would claim Joe Biden simply could not sign his name legibly a thousand times for lack of muscle. Also, defending 1000+ pardons, individually, in court, would be a nightmare. Better to present a united front.
Based on information and belief, I think that the former residents of the Oval Office are trying to hypnotize us with official-looking stamped, signed bullshit. I think it is a premeditated lie.
They are trying to gaslight us. This is perception management. They are trying to manipulate our perceptions because that’s all they have left. That’s all they had, all along – “fake it ’til you make it” is the work ethos of these people.
One more thing: we need to talk about pantographs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
Around 2005 I was an IT professional in San Francisco. BlackBox contracted with me to install a new Cisco router in Senator Feinstein’s office. The router was in a storeroom. So was a powered pantograph. It was loaded with Dianne Feinstein’s signature. Staff used it to sign documents “when she was not in the office”. I was reliably informed that every Congressman had the same thing. Odds are good the POTUS does, too.
Is a legal document that has been signed by a robot, a legitimate signature? My sense is it was originally intended for letters to school kids. It wasn’t intended to empower employees to become elected legislators without due process.
I’ll bet that Joe Biden’s DNA isn’t even on that pardon. So how could he have signed it?
Y’all need to toughen up. Distrust and verify. Everyone and everything. Seriously.
The barbarians are inside the walls; they have taken over the palace; they have murdered our leader; they have seized our wealth; destroying the family structure is really all that’s left. … But I digress.
Food for thought.
The Bidens are a disgrace and most corrupt and evil family to have ever served this country. They are the ideal Democrats.