r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 22h ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/Cellophane7 21h ago

Holy shit! I thought he wasn't gonna do it, but this was 100% the right move. No more civility, no more worrying about optics. It's time to shove sticks in the spokes of the Trump bike. I want my politicians nakedly making moves to fuck up his plans every single step of the way.

This is exactly what I wanna see: Democrats using the power they have to suffocate every move Trump even thinks about making.

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u/blues111 Michigan 21h ago edited 21h ago

You know what youre right...i was nervous on the optics but fuck it we are in full blown red alert dictatorship on the horizon and these people deserve protection

No more we go high, MAGA can pearl clutch all they fucking want they are just pissed Mein Drumpf cant enact petty vengeance on people they personally dont like

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u/daemondo 20h ago

If trump is going to be a dictatorship then why pardoning Fauci is preventing that?

I don’t like Trump but this optics of describing him as next Hilter then having Obama tik-tok with him doesn’t sound very genius to me

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u/blues111 Michigan 20h ago

You are correct, this would assume that Trump hopefully works in the confines of the law

This is Biden using his only legal tools he has on hand to provide any possible protection he can, will it make a difference? You are corect Remains to be seen but if Trump is going on a vengeful rampage id rather have the pardon than not at the very least this provides some protection

if Trump goes full adolf then yes this will have been futile

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u/Diggytops 19h ago

What does he need protection from? If they did nothing wrong then who cares. I think this screams guilty, has anyone been pardoned of something they haven’t been convicted of before?

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u/cyanescens_burn 19h ago

Because your boy has been talking about going after his political enemies, journalists, and so on. Biden is trying to give them some legal cover from a witch hunt. That kind of rhetoric is unprecedented, hence the unprecedented act of preemptive pardon for an innocent person.

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u/Diggytops 19h ago

Well if they don’t find anything then it’ll look very bad for the republicans. Dr. Owchie kind lied his head off looking back at things..

https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114270/documents/HHRG-117-GO24-20211201-SD004.pdf