Adam Schiff in 2020: Presidents Don't Give An Innocent Person A Pre-Emptive Pardon by 6ixStringJack

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Adam Schiff in 2020: Presidents Don't Give An Innocent Person A Pre-Emptive Pardon

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UPDATED: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 23:38
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 11:38 PM

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_presidents_dont_give_an_innocent_person_a_blanket_pardon.html

Adam Schiff accepted a pre-emptive blanket pardon from President Biden yesterday for his actions related to House Democrats' investigation into the 2021 January 6 riot.

He told MSNBC in December 2020, when the shoe was on the other foot, that a president who pardons members of his family is indicative that "it’s been essentially a den of thieves environment" and he has never heard of a president giving a pre-emptive pardon to an innocent person:

ADAM SCHIFF, 2020: I think the president probably has broader fears than that about his children. There are any number of reported investigations -- some state, some federal -- in which he may be concerned that they’re facing criminal liability. He’s obviously concerned about himself, from the press reporting, that he would even go so far as to consider trying to pardon himself somehow.

Look, this is the nature of those the president has surrounded himself with, including his family, and that is, it’s been essentially a den of thieves environment. So I think the president views this as his way of trying to protect those that have protected him.

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JOY REID: Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that, just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they’re an innocent person?

ADAM SCHIFF: No. I think that in the cases, the very few cases, where there have been prospective pardons, such as Ford pardoning Nixon for whatever he may have done during the presidency, there was some idea of the potential criminal liability facing Richard Nixon. Here, it’s an effort not only to prospectively pardon people for things they have not yet been charged with and may never be charged with, but also it’s the president’s own family. It’s people that have been covering up for the president.

In addition to his own family, in the case of Roger Stone, it’s someone who lied to help cover up, or Michael Flynn, who lied to help cover up. So there is a self-interest at play as well, and I think that makes this quite unique. There were accusations when President Bush conveyed a pardon to Casper Weinberger that the special counsel there thought that might have been an effort by then-President Bush to cover up, but nothing of the scale and scope of what Donald Trump has already done and is contemplating in the future.

Uh huh...

Democrats get away with this because their voters don't have a memory that extends more than 2 weeks behind them. They are lead around by emotions, focused entirely on vague offenses that were allegedly done a hundred years before any of them were born without learning a lick of actual History, and they are completely unable to plan for the future.

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