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After Hunter Biden Pardon, Trump Vows Pardoning Many Jan. 6 Protesters

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Part I

After Hunter Biden pardon, Trump vows to pardon many Jan. 6 protesters

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(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of his son Hunter may give President-elect Donald Trump a blank check to issue his own round of pardons upon taking office.

Trump said as much in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press when he vowed to pardon a number of people convicted in connection to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan.. 6, 2021, saying he'd look at each case individually.

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“These people are living in hell,” he told NBC's Kristen Welker, noting that some had been in jail for three years and promising pardons on Day 1 in office.

More than 1,500 individuals were charged in connection with the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?” Trump said in a statement last week. “Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”

Trump also promised on the campaign trail to set free many Jan. 6 protesters.

"I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can't say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control," Trump said at CNN Town Hall in 2023.

"I would say it will be a large portion of them and it would be early on,” he added.

Many lawyers involved in protesting the 2020 election results have faced prosecution as well. However, defendants facing state charges can receive little help from Trump, barring an extraordinary action from the president-elect.

Trump could issue a blanket pardon for lawyers who worked with him broadly covering at least federal crimes for more than a decade, similar to Hunter’s pardon and the ones under consideration for other Biden officials.

“Christmas is coming, and as the old saying goes, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” Colin Reed, a Republican strategist, former campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and co-founder of South and Hill Strategies, told The Center Square.

“After thumbing his nose at the idea that ‘no one is above the law,’ President Biden has undermined the entire Democratic Party’s messaging apparatus and robbed their ability to claim the moral high ground.

The Department of Justice has signaled that its own cases against Trump will be dropped, keeping with a longstanding policy preventing prosecution of sitting presidents.

It may be the season of grace because media reports indicate that Biden’s team is considering issuing many more pardons preemptively protecting Biden allies from prosecution by a Trump administration, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Democratic Sen. Blumenthal said on CNN this week that he would “strongly oppose” those kinds of blanket pardons.

“The way to stand up to a bully like Donald Trump is not to run and hide,” Blumenthal said. “It’s to confront him. And that’s what we ought to do if they misuse the Department of Justice. I was a prosecutor, U.S. attorney and then state attorney, and I believe that the way to confront Donald Trump is to put together a defense team and a defense fund.

"I’d be happy to join it," he added. "And what we should do is support those people who are potentially in jeopardy but there is no way to offer this kind of immunity to anyone who may be a target of Donald Trump because they will go after whoever doesn’t have that kind of pardon, and there are plenty of targets who they can assail.”

Despite Trump’s pledges in the 2016 cycle to drain the swamp and prosecute Hillary Clinton, his DOJ never prosecuted political opponents.

“By issuing the pardon so early in the lame duck period rather than on his way out the door, President Biden also provided President Trump time to plan his next moves,” Reed told The Center Square. “The Hunter pardon and its implications will live on long after the Biden presidency has reached its final chapter.”

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Part II - Additional Information with More Analysis and Commentary

There are multiple sources across the left-right media divide that say that the Biden White House is considering issuing what is being described as "preemptive pardons." Keep in mind that quoted items reflect the views of the person, not necessarily those of this writer for this Patch.

This contributor for this Patch recently provided the report linked below on the topic of the pardon of Hunter.

Hunter Biden Pardon by Joe Biden-What Other Media Often Overlooked

It will not be a surprise if sometime after the new Congress is sworn in if investigations into various challenges from the last 4 years are launched. If so, one of those could well be a deeper look into what really occurred on January 6, 2021. It is already known that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had assets in that crowd. Did they instigate what occurred in the breach of the Capitol Building? Did some Capitol police let people in on purpose? There is evidence on such issues but there is not yet clarity.

It also won't be a surprise if the 2020 election itself is investigated, along with the origins and handling of the COVID19 declared pandemic by not only Communist China, but by some key officials here in the U.S. When Dr. Anthony Fauci is put on the list of people that may get a so-called 'preemptive pardon,' one ought to think that it has something to do with occurrences of 2020 and 2021 and before.

It has been said that by pardoning Hunter, it is apparent that Hunter committed criminal acts. But it has also been observed that now that Hunter has been pardoned, he no longer has the 5th amendment protected right to not testify due to the risk of self-incrimination.

What those tweets (X-posts) don't mention is that Joe Biden may issue himself a preemptive pardon, to defend himself against possible legal actions. If he does so, it will be an indicator that what House investigators have uncovered is evidence of criminal behavior by Joe, Hunter, and other members of the Biden family. While it may never happen, it is possible that such moves could come back to haunt the Bidens if someone with authority decided to press the matter.

These vexing items point to a considerable level of corruption in government. There is apparently a lot of clean up to do in Washington, D.C. and beyond. The affordable housing crisis, including but not limited to what has been called the sabotage of the manufactured home industry according to Federal Reserve linked researchers and others, is just one of several problematic areas that clean up of governmental fiascos is necessary.

The need to pare back and clean up the federal government ought to apparent to anyone taking an objective look at the federal government. HUD, for example, has been working for over 50 years to address the affordable housing crisis. Why is it worse now then what it was in HUD's infancy?

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