“Dear President Trump” is the address of the letter, which Trump discovered inside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with some assistance from Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.
During his final hours in office, US President Joe Biden issued a number of pre-emptive pardons to prevent what he called "unjustified... politically motivated prosecutions".
A Niskayuna native who described the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as a “beautiful day” was one of more than 1,500 offenders — including 35 New Yorkers — pardoned Monday by President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.
In the last hours of serving as the 46th president, Biden issued a preemptive pardon to several political figures who were at risk of criminal investigation.
After the pardons were announced, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky — both Republicans — posted to X claiming that issuing pardons to Fauci, Milley and others implied they were guilty of a crime, as did other right-leaning accounts on the platform.
The recent frenzy of pardons is an important reminder that there is no such thing as the so-called “rule of law” in the United States.
President Biden granted a slew of last-minute preemptive pardons on Jan. 20, including to Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the January 6th committee.
US President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons on Monday to former Covid pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci, retired general Mark Milley and close family members to shield them from "politically motivated prosecutions" under the Trump administration.
Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, and the members of the House Jan. 6 committee, ahead of Donald Trump taking office.
The outgoing president issued the last-minute pardons to prevent his successor from enacting retribution against his political opponents.
Joe Biden ‘s term as President of the United States has officially come to an end, and he marked the occasion with a White House selfie alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Biden.