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How many times have you heard the comment, "No one is above the law," in the past four years?
Yeah, more than you can count or even remember.
That has been the mantra of the Left as they have attempted to destroy Trump since he won his first term as president.
After four years of lawfare against President Donald Trump and in the waning hours of his failed presidency, Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to his family members and political allies to protect them from the turnabout to which they were now exposed having failed to jail or dispose of Trump to stop his return to the White House.
Be informed, not misled.
Thomas Gallatin writes in the Patriot Post, "He pardoned over 10,500 people, including his own family members to cover up his own corruption."
He says:
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.
"A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways" (James 1:8)
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 back 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.”
He added that his Justice Department will “operate independently on those issues” and how to respond to any Trump pardons.
“I’m not going to be telling them what they have to do and don’t have to do,” Biden said. “I’m not going to be saying, ‘go prosecute A, B or C,’ I’m not going to be telling them.
Biden concluded that his administration would not approach pardons in the same way as Trump, adding, “It’s going to be a totally different way in which we approach the justice system.”
Really?
Indeed, it has been a "different way."
I'm reminded of Shakespeare's line from Hamlet, "The lady doth protest too much, me thinks."
Hypocrisy
After four years of lawfare against President Donald Trump and in the waning hours of his failed presidency, Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to his family members and political allies to protect them from the turnabout to which they were now exposed having failed to jail Trump or stop his return to the White House. In a statement accompanying the pardons for his famously crooked, ne’er-do-well brothers James and Frank, among others, Biden argued that “baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage their reputations and finances.”
Gallatin says:
"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.
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.”
Remember when Trump's supporters chanted, "Lock her up, lock her up"?
His Justice Department did not actually investigate the woman he dubbed "Crooked Hillary." Nor did he investigate Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg. Yet somehow, Democrats imagine themselves as both responsible stewards of the justice system and most at risk of being targeted by it.
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.
Takeaway
What does the Bible say about this issue?
Proverbs 28:1-2 says, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged."
This proverb notes one tendency of a guilty conscience: to be defensive even without an accusation. A person who knows they are at fault for something—or believes as much—may become excessive in attempts to clear their name. A related series of English expressions are variations of the phrase, "You protest too much," adapted from Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. These are used when another person's claims of innocence seem insincere and overdone, to the point of suggesting guilt instead.
Joe knows what he and his family has and has not done.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.