Re: Dem & Media Hypocrisy Regarding Biden's Preemptive Pardons

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Nearly three minutes straight of Democrats saying preemptive presidential
pardons means you’re guilty of crimes:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1865961473001852928/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/UHoAzFKwuf-ZUjzN.mp4?tag=12

Of course this was when Trump was considering them for his family. He
ultimately did not do it. However, hours before leaving office, Biden
preemptively pardoned Fauci, Milley, the Jan 6th committee, and his own
family.

According to every Dem politician and media talking head in that video, that
means they're all guilty of crimes.

(Lemme guess... "that's different".)

The difference being... Biden didn't campaign in 2020 on an enemies list
in which he was going to target Trump's family for imaginery crimes.

Trump is venal here. He's disloyal toward his own henchmen, which
he demonstrated when he threw Michael Cohen under the bus for the Stormy
Daniels shit and then vindictively treated him with contempt for getting
convicted. If he did that to Cohen, we can expect that's what he'll do
to "enemies".

I'm more critical of my own party than you are when they get things
wrong. Legally, those clips demonstrated a misrepresentation of the
difference between "guilty" -- the verdict upon finding (by jury or judge)
of proof beyond a reasonable doubt -- and actual innocence, that is, a
suspect or defendant who didn't actually commit the crimes he's accused
of. No jury (except in movies) is asked to find actual innocence 'cuz,
you know, they have no ability to investigate. Actual innocence isn't
legal semantics that the criminal code simply doesn't perfectly apply to
the proveable facts, but that the accused wasn't party to the crime.

Biden pre-mpted Trump from using unethical means via the Justice
department to pursue his enemies. I'd say that's different because of
what we expect Trump to do.

Most of Biden's pardons, except for non-violent drug users? Actually, I
disagree with them, but gah, pre-empting prosecutions of Trump's enemies
might have been necessary.