Biden: And the Cover-Ups Continue

 Biden has been going crazy with pardons and commutations, including: the commutation of the death sentences on 37 of 40 federal prisoners to simple life sentences; the pardon of his son, Hunter, despite prior pledges to not do so; and the commutation of the sentences of nearly 2,500 drug felons this month on top of 1,500 commutations and pardons of 39 people for non-violent crimes back in December. The latter included a commutation for a woman who stole $54 million from a small town in Illinois and a judge who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks.

    But the pardon machine has taken a turn in the past few days as Biden has now entered the realm of preemptive pardons, including:

• "Biden announces blanket pardon for his brother James, burying family influence-peddling probe for good"--New York Post. As the article notes, "President Biden issued a pardon Monday for his brother James Biden, effectively burying the final details of a more than five-year probe into the first family’s influence peddling to save them from possible repercussions under the incoming Trump administration." But the pardon extended just beyond his brother, James, but his wife, Sara Jones Biden, Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens and her husband John T. Owens, and another of Biden's brothers, Francis W. Biden. Biden's pardon indicated that "[t]he issuance of these 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." But if they hadn't committed any crimes, for what are they being pardoned?
  
• "Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 committee in effort to guard against ‘revenge’ by Trump"--AP. From the lede:

 President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.

Fauci, as you know, funded the gain of function research that led to Covid-19, and then later attempted to cover up his roll, including lying to Congress. Milley, among other things, had reached out to a Chinese general to assure him that he, Milley, would countermand certain military orders that Trump, as Commander in Chief, might issue against China. And the January 6 Committee, among other things, concealed and refused to release exculpatory evidence concerning the events of the January 6 protests. Nevertheless, as above, Biden included the following statement in his pardons:

“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden said in a statement. “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”

What we owe them are lengthy but very public trials. But, as with the pardons of his crime family, the purpose of these pardons also appear to be for heading off criminal probes or investigations into the actions of the pardoned persons, or perhaps entire government agencies and departments.