Now that President Joe Biden has less than two months remaining in office, some conservatives are actively campaigning for him to hand Donald Trump a presidential pardon on his way out the door.
Of course, it seems odd that anyone who supports Trump would think he needs a pardon. After all, haven’t they always said that he didn’t do anything wrong?
In an op-ed they penned for the Washington Post, Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute suggest that Biden could help heal the nation with a pardon.
“From a legal standpoint, Trump does not need a presidential pardon. Special counsel Jack Smith is in the process of shutting down his federal investigations. If Smith does not close his cases, Trump can simply fire him the second he takes office. At the state level, Biden has no pardon power, but the cases against Trump appear to be falling apart,” they write.
Then why should Biden issue a pardon that isn’t even needed? According to Thiessen and Pletka, it would unify the country and help us all heal.
“Absent decisive action, we could find ourselves at the start of a vicious cycle, in which Republicans now argue they are justified in weaponizing the justice system to go after Democrats, and Democrats then feel free to retaliate when they regain power — sending the country spiraling into a miasma of partisan litigation.”
Even though Biden said in 2020 that he would never pardon Trump, the two conservatives say he should reconsider, quoting his victory speech when he defeated Trump: “To everything there is a season — a time to build, a time to reap, a time to sow. And a time to heal. This is the time to heal in America.”
If Biden was sincere when he spoke those words, they conclude, “history can still record that, in the waning days of his presidency, Joe Biden finally delivered on that promise.”
Sorry, Marc and Danielle, but if anyone gets a pardon from President Biden as he walks out of the Oval Office for the last time, it should be Hunter Biden. Do you know why? To piss off all of the douchebags on the right.
