It would seem like anyone connected to Joe Biden got a presidential pardon. Literally minutes before President Donald Trump took the oath of office, and despite warnings from Democrats not to issue preemptive pardons, Biden issued preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, GEN Mark Milley, and the J6 inquisitors, including witness-tampering former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. “I believe in the rule of law,” said Biden, but these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good [sic] conscience do nothing.“

But Biden wasn’t done. He saved his most outrageous pardon power abuse for members of his own family.

Apparently, Biden’s behavior exceeded even CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s tolerance for hypocrisy, as he posted combined links to the Biden family pardons and a CNN article just before Trump left office in 2021 about Biden’s concern that Trump might issue pardons to family members (which he did not do). According to Biden then, "It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks [at] us as a nation of laws and justice.”

The family members Biden preemptively pardoned include James Biden, Sara Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden, and the pardons extend all the way back to January 2014. Apparently, that covers the timeline of corruption from the Biden Crime Family.

“I believe in the rule of law,” Biden opined. “But baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” even when they “have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated.”

While Biden claimed his “pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” that is precisely what they indicate.

Why pardon the innocent? Neither his brother nor other family members have been convicted of a crime, never mind even being charged with one. Yet, here is Biden issuing more preemptive pardons, which, deny as he might, paint those pardoned with, at the very least, suspicion of criminal behavior.

Naturally, the question arises: Are preemptive presidential pardons even legal? The short answer appears to be yes. The broad powers of presidential pardon have been well-established since at least 1866, when the U.S. Supreme Court said that a president’s pardon powers “extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.” The only apparent limit to the presidential pardon powers according to Article II of the Constitution is “except in Cases of Impeachment.”

Furthermore, Biden’s issuing preemptive pardons is not unprecedented. The most obvious example is President Gerald Ford, who granted a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, which prevented Nixon from being charged with any crime related to the Watergate scandal. The late Jimmy Carter also preemptively pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers soon thereafter.

Back to Biden, the now-former president handed out pardons, whether preemptive or not, like they were candy on Halloween.

Over the last 30 days, when most of the Leftmedia talkingheads and scribes were bloviating about the possibility that Trump would issue pardons to January 6 protesters (which he did last night), Joe Biden issued a pardon for Hunter Biden, despite repeatedly promising he would never do that because “No one is above the law.” That was just another entry to the endless list of lies over the course of his last 50 years on the taxpayer dole.

Then, Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned another 39 convicts to bury the news cycle about the corrupt pardon favor for his son. That was followed just before Christmas with his commuting the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates, some being the most evil people in federal custody. Biden began the New Year commuting another 2,500 sentences.

Over the last four years, Biden issued pardons and clemencies to more than 10,500 criminals — “more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history,” as he proudly declared. (For context, Trump issued a total of 237 pardons and clemencies in his first term.) The big pardon and clemency giveaway was much like his last-minute presidential medals extravaganza when he awarded numerous “trophies” mostly to his disreputable political benefactors.

How many of those whom Biden preemptively pardoned will accept it? Not only do these pardons imbue individuals with the stench of criminal guilt in the eyes of the public, but they could also prove problematic for the recipients should they be called on to give testimony regarding any investigation related to potential crimes they’ve been pardoned for, as Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination would no longer apply.

As former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said, he “understand[s] the theory behind it because Donald Trump has clearly said he’s going to go after everybody,” but he added, “the second you take a pardon, it looks like you’re guilty of something.” Precisely.

Biden has attempted to justify his abuse of pardon powers by projecting onto Trump the very actions he and his administration have been guilty of: politicizing and weaponizing the Justice Department against political enemies. As Trump stated in his second inaugural address, he has been the biggest target of Biden’s weaponized government.

One of Biden’s most enduring legacies will be how, under his presidency, the federal government dropped to a new low in its persecution of Americans on the other side of the political divide.