{UAH} IT IS STRANGE HOW BIDEN HAS TURNED INTO THE AL CAPONE OF THE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC PARTY -> What a firkin circus !!!!

Bernie Sanders advises Joe Biden to issue preemptive pardons

Story by Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter In Washington, D.C.

 

President Joe Biden should be considering preemptive pardons for people that Donald Trump could target once he is back in the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders insists.

Speaking with NBC News on Sunday, the independent Senator from Vermont was critical of Biden's 'dangerous' pardon for his son Hunter. 

He feels, however, that more pardons are necessary before Biden leaves office next month.

Earlier this month, Biden announced his decision to pardon his 54-year-old son despite claiming for years before that he would not take that action.

Sanders did not mention any specific names in his Sunday interview, but he did suggest that the nine-member January 6 House Select Committee should be on the receiving end of any incoming pardons from the president.

'We know the White House is considering potential preemptive pardons of those who have clashed with President-elect Trump,' Meet the Press host Kristen Welker said. 

'In light of what the president-elect said to me that, yes, he does think that members of the January 6th Committee should go to jail, do you think that Mr. Biden should issue preemptive pardons for the entire January 6th Committee?'

'Well, I think he might want to consider that very seriously,' the senator replied.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thinks President Joe Biden should consider preemptive pardons for those Donald Trump has suggested he will target in a second term

'Look, that is an outrageous statement,' Sanders added. 

'This is what authoritarianism is all about. It's what dictatorship is all about. You do not arrest elected officials who disagree with you, who undertake an investigation.' 

'I think that idea of Trump is not going to go very far,' he predicted. 'It is so – quite outrageous.'

Biden's decision to pardon his son just over two months before the end of his single term was highly criticized by Democrats and Republicans. 

Some members of the president's own party claim the pardon was hypocritical and selfish and are worried it could lead to adverse acts from the incoming administration.

And many feel it leaves the door wide open for Trump to issue pardons more generously in this go around – including for his own children.

Shortly after Biden posted about Hunter's pardon, Trump suggested that he would make it a day one act for him to pardon those prosecuted and given jail time for their involvement in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

Sanders also said President Biden set a 'dangerous' precedent by pardoning his son Hunter

Sanders said on Sunday that it could have repercussions but was sympathetic to Biden's decision.

'When you have his opponents going after his family, as a father, as a parent, I think we can all understand Biden trying to protect his son and his family,' Sanders said in his interview.

'On the other hand, I think the precedent being set is kind of a dangerous one,' he added. 'It was a very – a wide-open pardon, which could, under different circumstances, lead to problems in terms of future presidents.'

He wouldn't say whether the pardon would taint the legacy of Biden's single-term presidency.

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