Not a Fan: Sen. Amy Klobuchar Tells Jen Psaki She Doesn't Like What's Happening With Biden Pardons, Including Hunter's

[karynnj]

48. I really don't know whether the pardons would help or hurt.

It is clear that the people Trump wants in the DOJ, FBI etc are being selected, as he promised, for retribution. That campaign promise coupled with his choices in that very vein, mean that his administration will investigate, indict and try many people who have broken no laws. In part, this will be what he actually wanted to do in the first term and something that might equate the charges against himself and his people to what in most cases will be totally bogus çharges.

So, there are two ways to look at the blanket pardons. They will almost certainly be called admission of guilt by Trump and other Republicans. Many people covered might not want them for that reason. It also might normalize the practice of an administration, with the extreme version of immunity considering they can break any inconvenient law.

On the other hand, many lives of many innocent people will be destroyed by having to deal with charges. Some like Fauci, a respected long term public servant, could face CT based charges. That would be a huge miscarriage of justice against a man in his 80s. Could a preemptive pardon avoid that?

The other factor to consider is that pardons may not avoid these cases. If other people are the ones charged, those pardoned can still be investigated and called to testify. For instance, would Comer have stopped the Hunter investigation,which was really a Joe Biden investigation, had Hunter been pardoned as soon as the plea bargain fell apart?