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From the Daily Caller: Democrats and corporate media figures were highly critical about pardons being issued preemptively prior to the end of President Donald Trump’s first term.
Former President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, members of the January 6 House Select Committee and members of his family on the last day of his term of office. One prominent critic of the concept of preemptive pardons during Trump’s first term was then-Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who was one of the committee members to whom Biden granted clemency on Monday.
“Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, who’s just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that? Just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they’re an innocent person.” MSNBC host Joy Reid asked Schiff in 2020. “No, it’s the president’s own family. It’s people that have been covering up for the president in addition to his own family,” he responded.
Later in the video, when asked by CNN host Wolf Blitzer if accepting the pardons would be viewed as an “admission of guilt,” Schiff answered in the affirmative.
“I certainly would view it that way. I think millions of Americans would view it that way,” Schiff replied at the time. “If there was no belief in criminality, why would he think a pardon was necessary?”
The video includes multiple Democrats all condemning the thought that Trump might issue preemptive pardons.
Now their words are coming back to haunt them, as Joe Biden has done the very thing they spoke so vehemently against.
WATCH:
Preemptive pardons are proof of guilt, right Dems? Right media? Right?
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 20, 2025
Flashback to 2020. Here are some of the reactions to just the idea of Trump issuing preemptive pardons.
Which disgusts these "journalists" more, Biden actually doing it or the thought of Trump doing it? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/w6tgtkg7Nf
— MAZE (@mazemoore) January 20, 2025
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