Biden Says Hell No To Pardoning Trump Crimes

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President Donald Trump has faced a steep amount of investigative scrutiny while in office. During an interview that aired this week on MSNBC, former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden insisted that if he is elected president, he would not pardon Trump or otherwise interfere in any investigations of Trump. After President Richard Nixon resigned amidst the turmoil of the Watergate scandal, successor Gerald Ford, who had served as Nixon’s vice president, pardoned the former president, who saw many of his associates face criminal charges over Watergate.

Biden, meanwhile, told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell:

‘It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct a prosecution or decide to drop a case. It’s a dereliction of duty. It’s hands off completely. The attorney general is not the president’s lawyer. It’s the people’s lawyer. We never saw anything like the prostitution of that office like we see it today.’

Recently, Trump-appointed Attorney General Bill Barr decided to drop the Justice Department’s case against Trump ally Michael Flynn, although Flynn brazenly admitted to lying to investigators. Barr insisted that, nevertheless, the case had supposedly constituted judicial overreach from the start, although none of that rhetoric changes the actual facts of Flynn’s attempt to cover up his communications with the then-Russian Ambassador.

Meanwhile, Biden has also been criticizing Trump for the incumbent president’s abject failures to keep the U.S. from falling into the Coronavirus crisis that it currently faces, with tens of thousands of deaths.

Biden, who has had to shift to online campaigning amidst the social distancing demands of the Coronavirus pandemic, tweeted:

‘As the economy continues to spiral downwards and unemployment soars to Great Depression-era levels, we cannot ignore the hard truth: This crisis hit us harder and will take longer to recover from because of Donald Trump’s failures… The lives of tens of millions of Americans have been thrown into chaos through no fault of their own — and Donald Trump simply isn’t doing enough to help them… Donald Trump can deflect and shift blame all he wants, but the hard truth is he failed to protect our nation from the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime.’

Throughout the crisis, tens of millions of people have newly filed for unemployment benefits, and the unemployment rate has soared to the highest official level since the Great Depression. The economy has been struggling according to other measures too — in April, amidst government demands for certain establishments to close, retail sales in the U.S. plummeted at a rate of over 16 percent.

Meanwhile, Trump has kept up with his delusional obsession over “Obamagate.” Trump claims that Obamagate constitutes some kind of grave scandal, but he’s completely failed to actually explain what the term means in terms of actual crimes.

He tweeted:

‘Thank you to @foxandfriends for covering, supremely, the greatest political scandal in the history of the United States, OBAMAGATE… History is unfolding, and it is not a pretty picture for “journalism”’

He is delusional. In a country that has experienced slavery, presidential assassinations, world wars, a civil war, and more, Trump thinks that his made-up allegations against his predecessor constitute the worst U.S. political scandal ever.



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