US President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and members of the House committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and retired General Mark Milley, to prevent possible retaliation by the incoming administration of Donald Trump. .

Mr. Biden’s decision comes after Mr. Trump warned of a list of enemies filled with those who crossed him politically or wanted to impeach him for trying to interfere with his 2020 election and for his actions in the destruction of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Mr. Trump has appointed cabinet appointees who agreed with his campaign lies and who have promised to punish those who took steps to investigate him.

“The granting of these pardons should be misconstrued as an admission of guilt by any person, and a confession should be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any wrongdoing,” he said. Biden said in his speech. “Our country owes our public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless dedication to our country.”

It is customary for a president to grant clemency at the end of his term, but this clemency is usually given to the American people he has accused.

But Biden has used that power in a broader and less tested way: pardoning those who have not been investigated. And with confession comes the tacit admission of wrongdoing or wrongdoing, even though the person being forgiven has never been charged with anything.

“These are special cases, and I can’t do anything in good conscience,” said Biden, adding that “even if people have done nothing wrong – and they have done good things – and in the end they will be freed, to remain silent. to be investigated or charged can cause irreparable damage to reputation and money.”

Biden has cited threats and threats

Fauci was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health for nearly 40 years and was a top adviser to Biden until his retirement in 2022. Trump’s anger when he refused to challenge Trump’s absurd claims.

He has been the target of intense hatred and violence from people on the right, who blame him for the mask and other policies they believe violate their rights, even as thousands of Americans die.

Fauci said he appreciates Biden’s actions.

“I have done nothing wrong … and there is absolutely no reason to make false accusations against me or to threaten to investigate or indict me,” Fauci told ABC News.

Mr. Mark Milley is the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and called Mr. Trump a sympathetic and detailed explanation of Mr. Trump’s actions during the terrorist attacks that occurred on January 6, 2021.

Since taking office, Trump has lashed out at Milley in a series of social media posts and speeches about what he thinks, sometimes outspokenly and calling the warlord a traitor. Milley said she did he had to take precautions in retirement.

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Biden is considering early pardons for prominent Trump opponents

US President Joe Biden is reportedly considering an early pardon for prominent opponents of Donald Trump, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, to be protected from retaliation when Trump takes office.

“I don’t want to waste the remaining time that the Lord has given me to fight against people who would unfairly seek revenge for petty things,” Milley said in a statement. “I don’t want to put my family, my friends and those I served with because of distractions, money and worries.”

Mr. Biden in his speech on Monday referred to how the government employees who were pardoned faced “threats and threats that occurred because of their honest work.”

Biden also pardoned members and staff of the January 6 committee, including former House members Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both Republicans who angered Trump’s base by agreeing to join the bipartisan group, which included seven Democrats. led by committee chairman Bennie Thompson. Biden’s pardon also involves the US Capitol and DC Metropolitan Police who testified before the committee.

Kinzinger told CNN earlier this month that while he understood why Biden would be pardoned ahead of time, he had no interest in accepting it.

“The second time you give forgiveness, it looks like you’re guilty,” he said. “I have no crime except to bring the truth to the American people and, in doing so, to embarrass Donald Trump.”

Trump is showing his forgiveness

Biden has spent years warning that Trump’s ascension to the presidency could threaten democracy. His decision to break with political tradition and early pardons came with those concerns.

Biden has set a presidential record for the most pardons and reforms, a list that includes the pardon of his son, Hunter. The president announced Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-drug crimes.

Biden previously announced that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on death row in the state, commuting their sentences to life in prison just weeks before Trump, who advocates expanding capital punishment, took office. In his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented 13 deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump, taking office on Monday, decided to pardon some of those convicted on January 6, 2021, calling them “political prisoners” at times in the past. JD Vance, Trump’s vice president-elect, said the people who started the violence during the riots at the Capitol “obviously” should not be pardoned.

More than 1,500 people have been charged with crimes in the state over the siege that left more than 100 police officers injured and sent lawmakers into hiding. A female Trump aide was shot to death inside the Capitol as a crowd tried to enter the restricted area.

Hundreds of people who did not commit destruction or violence were charged with trespassing for trespassing in the Capitol. Others were charged with murder, including assaulting the police. Leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were found guilty of treason.

Biden is not the first to consider such a pardon.

President Gerald Ford granted a “full, free and absolute pardon” in 1974 to his successor, Richard Nixon, in the Watergate scandal. He believes that a possible trial “could lead to a long and divisive debate” and that Nixon “has already paid the unimaginable penalty of leaving the highest office in the United States.”