By Mike Huckabee
December 18, 2024
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Yesterday, we dared to question the pardoning authority of a President who is clearly not playing with a full deck. The undercover video recently obtained by James O’Keefe makes it clear that those working with Biden have known how serious his condition was and just kept it quiet (at least until they went out on first dates).
Here’s PJ MEDIA on that video, in case you didn’t see our story, and even if you did…
Biden hasn’t been functioning well for a long time, but only in recent months has this been widely acknowledged, though his party declined to invoke the 25th Amendment. Not only has the sitting President pardoned close to 1,500 of his closest friends, but many more are reportedly anticipating blanket pardons along the order of what Hunter Biden received, covering them for whatever they might have done during a set period of time. This turns the whole pardon authority on its head.
“...Joe is only getting started,” said FOX NEWS’ Sean Hannity Tuesday night. “How many other Bidens will be pardoned by the time this is all said and done? Will Joe pardon himself, [with one of] these ‘pre-emptive’ pardons?” Hannity went on to cite a few confounding examples of Biden’s inexplicable clemency, such as the doctor found guilty of diluting chemotherapy drugs being given to cancer patients (!!!). Using presidential authority to let this person walk free after what she did is unconscionable.
Just wondering: How would Joe Biden have liked it if his son Beau’s doctor had done the same thing to Beau during his treatment for brain cancer? Would that have deserved clemency?
At the time this doctor was sentenced, U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III said, “It’s a very small thing to send this woman to jail for the next 20 years when you compare it to the damage she has done.” But for some reason, whoever put that piece of paper in front of President Biden for him to sign thought differently, and so this (former?) doctor has a get-out-of-jail-free card. We’d love to know what Judge Jordan thinks about this.
Biden also commuted the sentences of two Chinese spies convicted of espionage (WHAT??), as well as the relative of a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party convicted of possessing over 47,000 images of child porn on his computer. This was reportedly part of a prisoner swap, an exchange for three Americans who were being held there.
At the time of the sentencing of one of the spies, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “Today’s sentencing demonstrates the seriousness of those crimes and the Justice Department’s determination to investigate and prosecute efforts by the Chinese government, or any foreign power, to threaten our economic and national security.”
Well, so much for that!
The NEW YORK POST story is a must-read. (The POST has uncovered a wealth of CCP spying in New York City.)
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/
Even the “fact”-checkers at NEWSWEEK have confirmed that the story on Biden giving clemency to these three Chinese criminals, two of them spies, is TRUE. This may or may not be part of a prisoner swap, they say.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-
Of this transition period, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said, “When you look at the vote of the American people, and you look at how clear the issues were, and some of what’s gone on, it’s not technically treason, but it is certainly a deliberate and willful undermining of the American people --- not undermining Donald Trump; he’s undermining the American people.”
These are the American people who want a border wall built and a tougher relationship with China, he said. “And I’m watching what I think is a deliberate, and I think malicious and despicable, undermining of the American people.”
“...The Congress right now should be demanding records on every single commutation and pardon,” he continued, “’cause you have some really sick people who Joe Biden released. I have no idea how they got on the list, and we ought to be able to track down every memo, every single example. Why would these people, some of whom are pretty sick --- child pornographers, people who are totally corrupt, people who bankrupted small towns --- [have made that list]? What the American people deserve is the truth, and we ought to be committed to giving [them] the facts.”
Incidentally, Gov. Huckabee appeared on Hannity’s show Tuesday night, along with former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, to talk about the transition and the strategies Biden is using to leave a gigantic mess behind. Here’s that segment…
“I think [Biden] underestimates what Donald Trump is gonna do when he gets into office,” the Gov. said. “...That’s gonna be the beginning on January 20. And I can’t wait. It’s just not gonna get here quick enough.”
But that’s precisely the problem right now. Biden and his puppeteers still have about five weeks in which to do their dirty work. Much more clemency is likely, because why the heck not? As for short-circuiting this by invoking the 25th Amendment, that simply won’t happen when Cabinet members are in as much denial as the current ones are. A startling new report from REDSTATE reveals that even members of Biden’s own Cabinet, when polled recently by FOX BUSINESS NEWS Digital, continued to stand by statements they have made concerning Biden’s absolute fitness to serve.
This poll was taken even after First Lady Jill Biden, in September, was actually put in charge of a Cabinet meeting. And you’re aware of the President’s current state if you saw the undercover video obtained by James O’Keefe, in which someone who’s worked with Biden for over a year (probably longer) says everyone at the office knows the President is non-functional. Staffers and Cabinet members might admit it to each other, but they obviously are NOT going on the record.
Here’s an example of a statement made in September by one of Biden’s Cabinet members, HHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:
"As I’ve said before, I come fully prepared for my meetings with President Biden, knowing his questions will be detail-oriented, probing, and exacting. In our exchanges, the President always draws upon our prior conversations and past events in analyzing the issues and reaching his conclusions." Mayorkas said he had “full confidence” in Biden’s ability. And on Monday, DHS stated that Mayorkas stands by his comments.
Good grief; they actually expect us to believe this.
“It’s a level of gaslighting rarely seen even in Washington,” says Becky Noble at REDSTATE. “Once Joe Biden is gone, will anyone finally speak up because they think it’s ‘safe’?”
Yesterday, when we first began to tackle the issue of Biden’s incapacity as he (or someone) commits presidential pardon abuse, we looked for input from an attorney whom we respected. Today, we have some, from Jonathan Turley. And he’s very concerned that this idea of “pre-emptive pardons” is going to fundamentally change the nature of presidential power. Turley --- perhaps because he grew up in the Democrat Party --- has strong insight into what they’re up to now and the damage they could wreak.
Such wholesale pardoning, he says, “will give Presidents cover to wipe away any threat of prosecution for friends, donors and associates. This can include self-pardons issued as implied condemnations of their political opponents. It could easily become the final act of every President to pardon himself and all of the members of his administration. We would then have an effective immunity rule for outgoing parties in American politics.
“...No President has seen fit to go as far as where Biden appears to be heading,” he says. It’s uncharted territory.
The Democrats have touted a Trump “enemies list” but can’t prove there really is one, Turley says, so they’re introducing a Biden pardon list in anticipation of Trump’s supposed revenge (which Trump says he’s not doing). “After years of lying to Americans about the influence peddling scandal and promising not to consider a pardon for his son,” Turley says, “Biden would end his legacy with the ultimate dishonesty: converting pardons into virtual party favors.”
“Joe Biden has become the President that Richard Nixon only imagined. He would establish with utter clarity that this power is not presidential, but personal and political...and many in the Beltway are waiting to give him a standing ovation.”
Unfortunately, Turley does not get into Biden’s cognitive issues here, the fact of his mental decline. Is there any way to legally address the validity of these many pardons and commutations --- and the precedent they set for future Presidents --- considering they’ve been signed by, as one investigator kindly put it, “an elderly man with a poor memory”? And what if it can be determined that most of these came from donors, lobbyists and even global adversaries, set quickly before a vacant-eyed old codger in need of a nap, as a pen is placed in his hand? After all, he has been officially declared by a DOJ special counsel to be too old and incompetent to stand trial on his handling of classified documents, so how is he legally competent to sign pardons that don’t even fit the legal definition of a pardon but of blanket “Get Out Of Jail Free” cards?
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