{"id":133901,"date":"2024-12-06T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133901"},"modified":"2024-12-06T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:35:10","slug":"biden-team-considers-blanket-pardons-before-trumps-promised-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133901","title":{"rendered":"Biden Team Considers Blanket Pardons Before Trump\u2019s Promised \u2018Retribution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Biden\u2019s staff is debating whether he should issue blanket pardons for a swath of President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s perceived enemies to protect them from the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-2024-president.html\" title=\"\">\u201cretribution\u201d<\/a> he has threatened after he takes office, according to people familiar with the discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The idea would be to pre-emptively extend executive clemency to a list of current and former government officials for any possible crimes over a period of years, effectively short-circuiting the next president\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-enemies-prosecution.html\" title=\"\">promised campaign of reprisals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">White House officials do not believe the potential recipients have actually committed crimes, but they have grown increasingly worried that Mr. Trump\u2019s selections for top Justice Department positions indicate that he will follow through on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-prison-threats-opponents.html\" title=\"\">his repeated vows to seek revenge<\/a>. Even an investigation that results in no charges could drag on for months or years, costing those people hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and crippling their career prospects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The discussion of blanket pardons, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/12\/04\/biden-white-house-pardons-00192610\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier by Politico<\/a>, remains primarily at a staff level although Mr. Biden has talked about it with senior members of the team, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations. It comes after Mr. Biden <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/01\/us\/politics\/biden-pardon-son-hunter.html\" title=\"\">pardoned his son<\/a> Hunter to spare him from prison on gun and tax charges. The White House declined to comment on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden in effect <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-pardon-president.html\" title=\"\">previewed the approach<\/a> with his son\u2019s pardon, wiping away not just the counts he was actually convicted of but any crimes he \u201cmay have committed or taken part in\u201d since 2014. That presumably will forestall Mr. Trump\u2019s Justice Department from going after Hunter Biden on any allegations that did not merit charges by the prosecutor who has investigated him since Mr. Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such a sweeping act of clemency covering even theoretical crimes over the course of a decade <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/02\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-pardon-president.html\" title=\"\">went beyond the scope<\/a> of any since at least the Watergate era, when President Gerald R. Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, for any crimes even though he had not been charged. 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