Former CNN political analyst Chris Sillizza on Monday harshly criticized former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons of President Donald Trump’s political opponents.
Biden pre-emptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and members of the Jan. 6 Commission on Monday, saying they did not deserve “the targets of unwarranted and politically motivated prosecution.” Siritza during the inauguration livestream YouTube channelsaid Biden’s actions were foolish because they established a harmful “precedent” and showed hypocrisy. (Related article: Joe Biden’s brother changed story about dealings with China after lawmakers showed him receipts, sources say)
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“I think it’s a tragic situation. I think it’s incredibly stupid. I think it’s set a really dangerous precedent, which is that Biden says he’s not going to preemptively pardon people; “I said I was concerned about Trump preemptively pardoning people at the end of 2020,” Sillizza said. “Well, that’s really hypocritical. I think it makes people feel guilty too. I mean, I actually don’t think it’s good. Anthony Fauci and Mark Milley have done nothing wrong. I’m sure you wonder why you need to be forgiven if you aren’t.”
“But I think that’s really, really stupid. I can’t believe he did that. I think it’s really bad advice, whoever advised him. The end of Biden’s presidency is completely “I think it was a disaster,” he added. “From Hunter Biden’s pardon to now, whether it’s pretending that the 28th Amendment was ratified, whether it’s the ERA amendment, it’s all over the place…and I think that I just think it’s a disaster.”
Biden pardoned his son Hunter in December after a jury in Delaware convicted him on federal gun charges and he pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in California. After the former president granted pardons to Trump’s rivals on Monday, he also pardoned his brothers Frank and James, James’ wife Sarah Biden, and sister Valerie Owens and her husband John Owens just before Trump’s swearing-in. granted a pre-emptive pardon.
Biden’s pardons for Hunter and five additional family members all date back to 2014. In a statement announcing the pardon, the former president claimed the family had been victims of “the worst kind of partisan politics.”
Trump considered preemptively pardoning the children during his last term, but chose not to.
“I have concerns about what kind of precedent this sets and how the rest of the world views us as a nation of law and justice,” Biden said. said During a CNN interview in December 2020.
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