President Biden preemptively pardons to former Gen. Mark Milley, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and Sen. Adam Schiff to protect them from Trump inquiries.
President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump and members of his own family, using extraordinary executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor.
With just hours remaining in office, the president issued the pardons to protect people Donald Trump had threatened.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President Trump showed a disregard for police officers after granting roughly 1,500 Capitol insurrectionists pardons on Monday. “One thing is abundantly
In the last hours of his presidency, Joe Biden pardoned former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Sen. Adam Schiff, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Rep. Liz Cheney, along with staff of ...
Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons of family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020.
The move came after Trump warned of an enemies list of those who crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for Jan. 6, 2021.
Those pardoned include retired General Mark Milley, infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci, and members of Congress and staff who served on the select committee which investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol and recommended that Trump be prosecuted for his role in the insurrection.
President Biden used his executive clemency power to protect people targeted by Donald J. Trump, including five members of his family as well as Liz Cheney, Anthony S. Fauci and Mark A. Milley.
President Joe Biden issued a slew of pardons to pre-emptively protect former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Jan. 6 committee and police officers who testified before that panel.
President Biden granted pardons to several prominent public servants Monday who have faced attacks from President-elect Trump in one of his final acts in office. Biden issued pardons for Dr.