I say it in question form, because as I'm writing this, the outgoing president still has about 3 hours of power left with which to wreak havoc. When Winter Warlock accepted the toy choo-choo train from Kris Kringle in the Rankin/Bass claymation movie Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town back in the 60s, his heart melted, along with his powers. All he had left were a few magic beans that could make reindeer fly. That's it. Joe Biden still has the nuclear codes and someone to write up presidential pardons.

Typically, but not in every circumstance, a presidential pardon covers the sins that the recipient has committed against the people of the United States. In Biden's case in the wee hours of his last morning as commander-in-chief, he preemptively decided to pardon a handful of some of the more controversial figures in recent American history. 

With the stroke of a pen in the shaky hand of the 82-year-old Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley, the entire January 6th select committee, including Senator Adam Schiff and retired members of Congress Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and every D.C. Capitol police officer that testified to the committee, all are now free from prosecution for anything they've done in their life up to today. Mind you, none of these figured have been accused of committing a crime, indicted for one, or even investigated by any agency. 

The White House is attempting to make it very clear that by issuing these pardons, the President is not assuming that all of those he's pardoned have done something wrong. He's claiming he's doing it because they are people President-Elect Donald Trump doesn't like and criticizes. I'll just play this and let it sink in.

Joe Biden says he’s going to pardon people based on who Trump criticizes.

This is one of the most insane things Biden has ever said.

Talk about making a mockery out of the presidency.pic.twitter.com/ZxcwQMgfuD

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 10, 2025

There are plenty of people who want to get to the bottom of the government response to the COVID-19 virus. And not just the response, but the creation and cover-up of whose hands have blood on them. Fauci is in the clear. Dr. Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institute of Health, and Dr. Deborah Birx, are not, and neither is Rochelle Walensky and the Center for Disease Control. The incoming administration's health agencies, in order to even begin to clear the wreckage of their credibility and start over, have to provide a full accounting of who knew what and when, and more importantly, what was science and what was politics, and when science began kowtowing to science. I'm not looking for scalps so much as truthful answers.

As for the J6 committee members, Democrats and their allies in regime media can pound sand the next time they tell me about the rule of law being upheld and democracy being damaged. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created her own personal star chamber, denied the Republican Party the opportunity to place the members on it they wanted, and instead cherry-picked from the GOP conference the two most steadfast Never Trumpers and called it a bipartisan committee. 

There were really never going to be any prosecutions of Adam Schiff or Liz Cheney, and honestly, nobody cares about Kinzinger. That's why he's on CNN all the time. Trump has plenty to do looking forward and unwinding the damage from the past four years. He's going to be too busy to be in the vendetta business. But out of the sense of transparency, a proper investigation of what evidence was manufactured, and further, what exculpatory evidence was cast aside or destroyed, is warranted and necessary at some point. 

I mentioned Biden's bony middle finger. In actuality, this wave of pardons is the second bony finger of the weekend. The first was Saturday when the soon-to-be-former President pardoned Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne, who both brutally murdered Sussex County, Virginia police officer Allen Gibson. Virginia's governor, Glenn Youngkin, is beyond furious. 

"I am beyond outraged and in utter disbelief that President Biden would announce clemency for Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson—two men who admitted for being responsible to brutally killing Officer Allen Gibson, a hero and dedicated servant to our community,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin. “What makes this even more unconscionable is the Biden U.S Attorney advised the White House not to commute these sentences as they are violent offenders. The pain and sorrow this clemency causes the Gibson family is unimaginable. To know that the men who took Officer Gibson’s life will walk free is not just a grave injustice—it is a heartbreaking blow to those who continue to mourn his sacrifice. This is despicable; a grim day for justice and for the families who trust that our system will hold the guilty accountable.” 

Both prisoners admitted to being responsible for the brutal killing of Officer Allen Gibson in Sussex County Circuit Court. The evidence presented and the details surrounding Officer Gibson's death are deeply disturbing and tragic. 

President Obama declined to grant clemency to Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson. In recent weeks, the Biden White House was advised by the Biden U.S. Attorney not to commute the sentences of certain prisoners, as they were violent offenders. Under the current terms, they are set to be released in July.

Now as horrible as those two clemencies are, and they truly are, the two getting presidential action at the last minute at least did something that needed pardoning. They committed crimes. In the case of this morning's action, according to Biden's own logic, he claims he's protecting the country from fascism by removing government officials from being held accountable by a subsequent government duly elected by the American people. Biden is committing totalitarianism allegedly in order to prevent it. 

If this were all Biden's idea and a conscious decision on his part, vile and repugnant though it may be, at least one could come to grips with it, and history could judge him appropriate in due time. But Joe Biden is such a shell, a husk of what he once was in the mental acuity department that it's unclear who is actually running the country. House Speaker Mike Johnson told The Free Press recently about how gone Biden was the first time he tried to talk to him.



That Biden episode was over a year ago, and he's only slipped in the months since. Regardless of the mental faculties of Joe Biden, the abuse of power this weekend alone would be worthy of impeachment as a standalone event in any normal time. Yes, the power of the president to issue pardons is absolute. Impeachment is a political solution to high crimes and misdemeanors. It's a political solution when a commander-in-chief goes completely off the rails, like Joe Biden has done. He obviously won't be impeached, but there is a whole grab bag of actions for which impeachment could have been pursued.

Over a hundred years ago in Burdick V. U.S., a Supreme Court case about the issuance of pardons and the legal status of those who receive one, held this in the majority opinion.

https://t.co/YRgAoJKrv2 pic.twitter.com/HQxofVsKh7

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 20, 2025

Joe Biden can go to his grave claiming the pardons issued on his final day do not assume they committed any crime. But that's not how the law sees it. That's not how Supreme Court jurisprudence sees it. Those issued pardons today received grace from the outgoing president for assumed crimes or abuses they committed. 

Adam Schiff may be a senator from California for a long while. California is a deep blue state. But he is now pardoned Senator Adam Schiff. Unindicted or unprosecuted Senator Adam Schiff. The stench of assumed guilt is now permanently on him and the others receiving this extraordinary presidential action at the very last minute. 

There are just under three hours left in the Biden presidency. Dr. Jill Dr. Biden, Ed.D, Jim Biden, presidential brother and Biden Inc. capo, and potentially dozens of others looking for a chair before the music stops playing, have not received their pardons for anything they perceive Trump might do to them. I'd like to think Biden's all done at this point, but honestly, my spidey-sense tells me there will be another raft of pardons in the final hour. 

Finally, Dr. Fauci has responded to the pardon. In a long screed reported on by Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, he's absolutely innocent as the wind-driven snow, and has been the utopian public servant for 50 years...but he's taking the pardon anyway. 

Statement of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. re preemptive pardon:

For more than 50 years, I have been a public servant at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) serving the American people and the global community in fighting against life-threatening
diseases. Throughout my career,…

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) January 20, 2025

Weasels, one and all. Assumed felon Anthony Fauci. It has a nice ring to it.