Lame-duck President Joe Biden has hinted he is considering preemptive pardons for former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Anthony Fauci and neoconservative former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY). Susan Page of USA Today, in an interview, asked Biden, “Some of your supporters have encouraged you to issue preemptive pardons to people like Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci, who Trump has threatened to target. Will you do that?” The 82-year-old said his next steps depend “on who [Trump] puts in what positions.”
“I was very straightforward with Trump when he got elected. I invited him immediately to the White House, I spent two hours with him. He talked about, he was very complimentary about some of the economic things I had done, and he talked about, he thought I was leaving with a good record, kind of thing,” the Democrat claimed.
“I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive for his interest to go back and try to settle scores,” he added, apparently referring to Trump potentially mounting efforts to bring officials to justice for misconduct.
Biden said Trump did not give him a clear answer on what he was going to do, “But he didn’t say, ‘No, I’m going to…’ You know, he didn’t reinforce it. He just basically listened.”
Asked if he was still assessing the issue, Biden gave his strongest hint that preemptive pardons are on the table: “I think there are certain people like, if he were to, I don’t want to name their names. I’ll tell you off the record,” he said, with USA Today redacting his next comments.
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