Trump: Biden family pardons make ‘him look very guilty’

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-21 15:32:38 | Updated at 2025-01-24 00:38:15 2 days ago
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Trump: Biden family pardons make ‘him look very guilty’
The Hill ^ | 01/21/2025 | Filip Timotija

Posted on 01/21/2025 6:29:27 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

President Trump criticized former President Biden for pardoning several members of his family during his last moments as commander in chief, with Trump arguing the actions make “him look very guilty.”

“That makes him look very guilty,” Trump said while speaking to reporters late Monday in the Oval Office as he signed a number of executive orders.

“I could have pardoned my family. I could have pardoned myself and my family,” he said. “I said, ‘If I do that, it’s going to make me look very guilty’ – I don’t think I’d be sitting here, frankly.”

Trump also said the pardons announced before he was sworn in create an “unbelievable” precedent for a sitting president.

“Now maybe every president that leaves office, they’re going to pardon every person they’ve ever met,” he said.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; family; guilty; pardons; trump; very

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It sure does. Guilty as sin.


To: ChicagoConservative27

And taterhead could not care less.

He knows he got away with it all and will never have to answer to any of it.......at least not in this life.


2 posted on 01/21/2025 6:31:51 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)


To: ChicagoConservative27

They look guilty because they ARE guilty!


3 posted on 01/21/2025 6:31:56 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)


To: ChicagoConservative27

investigate anyway and release the findings to the public.


4 posted on 01/21/2025 6:33:14 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)


To: All

Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals
Real Clear Investigations ^ | December 11, 2023 | Paul Sperry
fr Posted on 12/11/2023, 6:15:43 PM by george76

Trouble has followed Sara Catherine Jones since she married into the Biden family almost three decades ago. Not long after her 1995 wedding to Jim Biden, she took a job with one of his brother Joe’s Senate donors, who later accused her of “fraud” and “unjust enrichment,” according to court records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.

In the years since, she and her husband have been accused of reneging on debts and failing to pay their taxes, court and property records show. Like their nephew, first son Hunter Biden, they have reportedly sold the promise of access to their powerful relative to companies, several of which have gone bankrupt, some of which are tied to foreign countries hostile to the United States.

Now, Sara Jones Biden has emerged as a key figure in the mushrooming Biden foreign influence-peddling scandal.

GOP lawmakers seek to question the 64-year-old licensed attorney as part of their investigation of President Biden for possible impeachable offenses, including bribery. They are especially interested in subpoenaed bank records that include almost a quarter million dollars in checks Sara Biden wrote to her brother-in-law Joe, conspicuously marking them as “loan repayment.”

Republicans want to ask her about the origin of those loans and whether checks “were funded by Biden influence-peddling schemes with China.”

“The Committees require you to provide details of these payments and other related matters,” the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees said in a joint letter they sent to her last month demanding she make herself available for a transcribed interview. In addition, they sent a subpoena to her husband for testimony and information.

Although Hunter and Jim Biden’s questionable business dealings – and their possible blessing from the president – are drawing increasing scrutiny, Sara Biden has drawn little attention until now. But court records and other documents show she has been a central player in the Biden family business for decades.

They show how her and her husband’s desire for a lifestyle they could not quite afford has repeatedly led them to form relationships with shady figures and enterprises that often ended in lawsuits and even criminal investigations.

Looming over it all is Joe Biden. Documents recently obtained by government watchdog America First Legal, under a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal that Sara and Jim’s main business, the Lion Hall Group, shows up in more than 3,735 emails generated by the former Vice President Biden’s office.

The sheer volume of communications concerning his brother and sister-in-law’s business appears to contradict Biden’s repeated claims over the years that he was never involved in, or even aware of, his family’s business dealings.

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5 posted on 01/21/2025 6:34:27 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))


To: BigFreakinToad

investigate anyway and release the findings to the public.

Absolutely.

6 posted on 01/21/2025 6:37:17 AM PST by 1Old Pro


To: ChicagoConservative27

7 posted on 01/21/2025 6:38:24 AM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)


To: All

Sara and hubby at WH event.

Joe Biden donor with Ukraine ties helped Sara and James Biden buy posh Fla home.

8 posted on 01/21/2025 6:40:09 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))


To: Liz

As crooked as a dog’s hind leg.


9 posted on 01/21/2025 6:41:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro


To: V_TWIN

That’s right. Biden has the mentality of a Mafioso.


10 posted on 01/21/2025 6:49:11 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)


To: ChicagoConservative27

Preemptive pardons are void.

The Supreme Court:

the pardon is void being outside power of the Pres under the Constitution because it was issued before accusation or conviction or admission of an offense.

Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S.
79 (1915)


11 posted on 01/21/2025 6:51:12 AM PST by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)


To: BigFreakinToad

again I think trump should offer immunity to those left out of the biden blanket pardon put them before a congressional hearing and have it televised prime time for all of America to see



To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m betting Congress is on it...They can still be subpeoned and IIRC, they can’t take the fifth.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 6:54:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau


To: ChicagoConservative27

I still don’t see how you pardon ANYONE who has not been convicted yet of a crime.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 7:00:48 AM PST by Safrguns


To: ChicagoConservative27

The family pardons put into focus Biden’s disregard for the law. He reveled in the exercise of power. Biden, himself, did not get a pardon. The DOJ should prosecute him for influence peddling.



To: ChicagoConservative27

There still may be some tax issues, personal and for shell entities - income taxes, gift taxes, foreign bank account reporting.


16 posted on 01/21/2025 7:07:35 AM PST by beekay (Liberty - easy to lose; hard to get back.)


To: ChicagoConservative27

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck and moves like a duck.....it is a duck...same for Biden’s family.


17 posted on 01/21/2025 7:11:25 AM PST by vetvetdoug


To: ChicagoConservative27

Okay, forget retribution and prosecution. Leave them to heaven.

Launch a thorough and complete investigation to discover and expose the TRUTH about all illegal activities and all corruption in the Federal Government, its employees, and its agents.

Establish TRUTH.

Then let TRUTH be the judge and the chronicle history the penalty.

18 posted on 01/21/2025 7:19:39 AM PST by Savage Beast (Leave them to heaven. Let truth be the judge and the chronicle history the penalty.)


To: Savage Beast

History is written by the victors. Trump is here for only four years.

History can’t be relied on for truth


19 posted on 01/21/2025 7:21:13 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)


To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump needs to announce he was going to not investigate any Bidenistas who were pardoned for the good of the country but since they have nothing to hide now he will unleash the hounds on them to expose all they have to hide. Starting with Schiff.


20 posted on 01/21/2025 7:23:51 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)


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