Journalist Matt Taibbi said during an interview with former Fox News star Tucker Carlson on his podcast earlier this week that former President Joe Biden\u2019s preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), and others could wind up backfiring under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is, about these pardons, they\u2019re a mistake. If you want to know what\u2019s happening, they just made it a lot easier for us to find out,\u201d Taibbi said regarding suspicions that Biden preemptively pardoned several individuals who likely were involved in some form of criminal activity.<\/p>\n
After Carlson asked for an explanation, Taibbi said that according to legal experts he has spoken with, the pardons would not, for instance, allow the recipients to plead the Fifth Amendment if Congress called them to testify.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, once the pardon\u2019s delivered, the person can\u2019t plead the Fifth. If they are brought before a grand jury, they can\u2019t take the Fifth anymore, or if they\u2019re brought before a congressional committee, they can\u2019t evoke their right against self-incrimination, so they have to say something,\u201d the journalist explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd this is what\u2019s so interesting because I\u2019ve been talking to criminal defense attorneys, people who are former Senate investigators, some current Senate investigators, and they all kind of said the same thing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s so illogical to give somebody a pardon if you\u2019re trying to cover up things that the only reason you would really do it is if there are very serious crimes involved, right?<\/p>\n
<\/ins>\u201cSo that\u2019s a red flag for us. When we see somebody getting a pardon, we think, well, why would they do that unless there\u2019s something really bad there, right?\u201d Taibbi said. \u201cSo either it\u2019s a mistake where they just stupidly made It easier for everybody to investigate, or there\u2019s something we don\u2019t know about [and] that is interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Taibbi isn\u2019t alone in predicting that the preemptive pardons for Fauci, Cheney, and members of Joe Biden\u2019s family might not protect them from all future legal actions.<\/p>\n
Federal litigation attorney Jesse Binnall\u00a0pointed out<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month that Biden\u2019s pardons do not shield them from consequences if they lie under oath, should the GOP-controlled Congress subpoena them to testify. In his words, the pardons could be \u201cgreat news\u201d for anyone seeking to see the two prosecuted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pardons are actually great news. No one who was just pardoned will be able to refuse to testify in a civil, criminal, or congressional proceeding based upon the 5th Amendment,\u201d Binnall wrote on X, before dropping another truth bomb.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd let\u2019s just be realistic. Most of these disgusting individuals would probably have to be charged in Washington, DC, which doesn\u2019t convict partisan leftists,\u201d Binnall, also a former attorney for President Donald Trump,\u00a0wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other X users offered a potential solution to the problem of liberal bias in DC, including retired U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author Kurt Schlichter.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is key \u2013 the depositions and the actual testimony must take place outside of Washington DC. Washington DC is a biased venue that will not convict Democrats when they commit perjury. Accordingly, take this show on the road,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n Others who received Sunday night pardons were former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and Army Gen. Mark Milley, who later criticized Trump during his first term and all other members of the J6 committee.<\/p>\n Trump specifically addressed Biden\u2019s pardon of Cheney while he was signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Monday in between inauguration day functions.<\/p>\n \u201cI was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political folks,\u201d he told assembled reporters, referring to the Jan. 6 panel.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy are we doing this? Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley? Why are we helping Liz Cheney?\u201d he asked. \u201cI mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster. She\u2019s a crying lunatic and crying, crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n